Bug#571242: linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64: running 8 copies of bonnie deadlocks(?) in sync

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2010, John Hughes wrote:

> maximilian attems wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:00:17PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >>On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:02:41PM +0100, John Hughes wrote:
> >>>Package: linux-2.6
> >>>Version: 2.6.32-8
> >>>Severity: normal
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Running 8 copies of bonnie++ on 8 different filesystems on 8 disks seems
> >>>to produce a deadlock in sync(2).
> >>>
> >>>Initialy all the bonnie++ processes seem to be running ok, but after a while
> >>>only 2-3 of the disks are showing any I/O activiy and the dmesg output
> >>>shows:
> >>
> >
> >if you can reproduce with 2.6.32-9, which currently is new,
> >prebuild uploaded packages are here:
> >http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64_2.6.32-9_amd64.deb
> >sha256sum signed
> >http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64_2.6.32-9_amd64.deb.sha256sum.asc
> Same behaviour with
> # dpkg -l | grep linux-image
> ii  linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64              2.6.32-9
> Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux caronia 2.6.32-3-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 18:07:42 UTC 2010
> x86_64 GNU/Linux

hmm, so does 2.6.33 contain a fix for it?

please checkout the experimental 2.6.33 image,
if it does we need to find the patch for 2.6.32.
if not please contact upstream on bugzilla.kernel.org
and let us know the bug number so that we can track it.

thanks for the feedback.