[linux-lvm] Problems with snapshots on sparc64

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Daniel,

which LVM version (kernel and tools) and do you have HIGHMEM configured
(IOW: more than 960M memory) ?
There's flaws with Linux 2.4.20 highmem which show with snapshots :(


On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:10:29AM +0200, Daniel Bayer wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a E250 running Debian/stable with Linux 2.4.20 (vanilla kernel,
> except for xfs). Three weeks ago I created a LV with an xfs on it. I
> also created a backupscript that uses snapshots. For two weeks
> everything worked fine.
> 
> Then I got oopses during the backup (mainly from kupdated). After that
> the system was rebooted. I had to boot with init=/bin/sh since the
> system freezed while mounting the xfs partitions (another story). I
> did a vgscan and a vgchange. After that I did a
> "lvdisplay /dev/vg1/lv_snapshot" and got the usual output and 3 times
> the error "Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (addr)". Then I tried
> "lvdisplay /dev/vg1/lv" and also got the vfree()-error and a
> Segmention-Fault after the line that says that there is a snapshot of
> this LV. I removed the snapshot and "lvdisplay /dev/vg1/lv" worked
> fine. After that I could bring the whole system in a working state.
> I could reproduce this.
> 
> The address in the vfree()-error message only changes after a reboot.
> I also found older vfree()-errors in the log.
> 
> The Backtrace of the oops always ends in
> | Trace; 005143e8 <lvm_map+488/580>
> | Trace; 005144e8 <lvm_make_request_fn+8/40>
> 
> Another related problem is, that "cat /proc/lvm/global" in the most
> cases doesn't output the usual data but some random memory. Its really
> odd. But if I try often enough I sometimes also get the right output
> (and no, I didn't calculated the probability). The other files in
> /proc/lvm work fine.
> 
> Since I moved the important stuff to another system I can do some
> tests and provide further informations.
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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