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bcache causes task hang with 3.13 kernel

Bug #1425128 reported by James Page
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linux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Trusty
Incomplete
Medium
Stefan Bader

Bug Description

We're doing some testing of bcache to see how it improves block performance in trusty; right now we're hitting a problem where processes performing filesystem operations get hung on the default 3.13 kernel:

 [ 7083.029073] INFO: task qemu-img:96548 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
 [ 7083.035797] Not tainted 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu
 [ 7083.041325] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

we don't see the same issue if we switch to the 3.16 hwe kernel.

Fairly easy to reproduce so can try test kernels - will also try to get a bit more debug for you on this one.

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote : Missing required logs.

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Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
tags: added: trusty
Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: kernel-da-key
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

I had been starting to look for bug fix type changes from 3.14 a while ago. But since we had no details about the problems that were seen on 3.13, and I think I could not reproduce things either, there was no way of verifying whether those are good to go with. Please have a look at the kernel at: http://people.canonical.com/~smb/lp1408972/ and let me know how this works for you.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
assignee: nobody → Stefan Bader (smb)
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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

As 3.16 is claimed to be ok this is fixed in the development tree.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

Test patches refreshed yet another time.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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