For what it's worth, the panic doesn't occur in 1.6.0pre7 even with repeated hammering with ab.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Aaron Knister <[email protected]> wrote: > I know everyone's busy, but out of curiosity has anybody had a chance to > look at this? Could it be that it's not even an AFS bug, but a linux kernel > issue? I'm getting ready to put a webserver into production and am concerned > because I can reliably trigger the mentioned kernel panic using "ab". > > Thanks, > -Aaron > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Aaron Knister <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:25:15 -0400 >>> Aaron Knister <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi Andrew, >>> > >>> > Here's the output of the last few, what I think are relavent lines: >>> >>> Well, this is basically the same information as you originally gave. >>> There's nothing else around these, or immediately before? >>> >> >> The lines preceding what I originally sent are: >> >> openafs: module license 'http://www.openafs.org/dl/license10.html' taints >> kernel. >> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint >> enabling dynamically allocated vcaches >> Starting AFS cache scan...found 993 non-empty cache files (31%). >> eth0: no IPv6 routers present >> general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP >> >> I don't know if that's any more helpful. >> >> >>> >>> Also, could you run in crash >>> >>> dis rxi_NewCall >>> dis rxi_ResetCall >>> dis mutex_lock >>> >>> >> Here's a link to a directory containing the output of those commands: >> http://userpages.umbc.edu/~aaronk/afs/linux-kernel-panic/. >> >> Thanks, >> -Aaron >> >> >>> and put the result somewhere? (It's probably a bit large for the list) >>> >>> -- >>> Andrew Deason >>> [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenAFS-info mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Aaron Knister >> Systems Administrator >> Division of Information Technology >> University of Maryland, Baltimore County >> [email protected] >> > > > > -- > Aaron Knister > Systems Administrator > Division of Information Technology > University of Maryland, Baltimore County > [email protected] > -- Aaron Knister Systems Administrator Division of Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County [email protected]
