[linux-lvm] strange behavior with 1.0.5 on Linux 2.4.19?
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Sat Nov 9 06:12:02 UTC 2002
Gregory,
this proves my assumption right that something is fishy with the high
memory support in your SMP environment.
I guess that it might work as well in case you make a single processor kernel
_with_ high memory enabled and repeat the very same test and that it might
be a highmem/smp problem still to be fixed.
Anyone else with hints?
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:44:36PM -0800, Gregory Ade wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 06:28, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
>
> > > > If you have a chance to reconfigure the failing system temporarily,
> > > > running what you did before should reproduce the same problems (segfault
> > > > on snapshot creation after fresh reboot) in case there's _no_ bug in the
> > > > large/high memory support.
> > > > My assumption is that it will not.
>
> > There's no need to physically remove any DIMMs. Just cook up a kernel
> > without the patches you mentioned to get that elefant going and
> > without high memory support.
>
> Okay, I disabled high memory support (only change from production
> kernel), rebooted with this test kernel, and tried to create a snapshot:
>
> root at burpr(pts/0):~ 26 # lvcreate --snapshot --extents 512 --name
> tmp_snap /dev/vg00/tmp
> lvcreate -- INFO: using default snapshot chunk size of 64 KB for
> "/dev/vg00/tmp_snap"
> lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "vg00"
> lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/vg00/tmp_snap" successfully created
>
>
> It worked just fine:
>
> root at burpr(pts/1):log 28 # lvdisplay /dev/vg00/tmp
> --- Logical volume ---
> LV Name /dev/vg00/tmp
> VG Name vg00
> LV Write Access read/write
> LV snapshot status source of
> /dev/vg00/tmp_snap [active]
> LV Status available
> LV # 2
> # open 1
> LV Size 2 GB
> Current LE 512
> Allocated LE 512
> Allocation next free
> Read ahead sectors 120
> Block device 58:1
>
> So I removed it:
>
> root at burpr(pts/1):log 29 # lvremove /dev/vg00/tmp_snap
> lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/vg00/tmp_snap"? [y/n]: y
> lvremove -- doing automatic backup of volume group "vg00"
> lvremove -- logical volume "/dev/vg00/tmp_snap" successfully removed
>
>
> No kernel oops or BUG in the dmesg.
>
> Again, the _ONLY DIFFERENCE_ between this test kernel and the production
> kernel is the high-memory support option. On the test kernel, it is
> off, and on the production kernel, it is set to 64GB.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Gregory K. Ade <gkade at bigbrother.net>
> http://bigbrother.net/~gkade
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