[CentOS-devel] CetOS-6.4 via 6.3/cr

Fri Mar 1 17:41:54 UTC 2013
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> On 03/01/2013 09:36 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> By now most people would have seen or atleast have spotted the 6.3/cr/
>>> repos are populated and updates there announced to the cr-announce
>>> list.
>>>
>>> 6.4 is a big release, lots of changes and lots of feedback about things
>>> ( also, we found in our limited testing that there are some surprises
>>> around the corners! )
>>
>> I've updated some hosts on real hardware and vms on KVM.
>> There were no big surprises but the following things showed up:
>>
>> 1) On a KVM server, using macvtap with SELinux enabled work now out of
>> the
>> box, with 6.3 it didn't.
>>
>> 2) This bug should now be fixed
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713546
>
> I can't see this one ^^

Ops, you're right it's also 'private' now. Don't remember how I came on
the CC list which is why I can see it I guess.

>
>> however, instead of the one above I see new issues like described here
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767127
>
>
> Is this with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6 or kernel-2.6.32-358.el6?
>
>
>>
>> and
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770545
>
> I can't see this one ^^

Yes, me too, that's why I was interested to know what it is.

I'm running 2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64 and I see crap like this in my logs:

Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: swapper: page allocation failure.
order:1, mode:0x20
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted
2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: Call Trace:
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8112c207>] ?
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x757/0x8d0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81166ab2>] ?
kmem_getpages+0x62/0x170
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff811676ca>] ?
fallback_alloc+0x1ba/0x270
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8116711f>] ?
cache_grow+0x2cf/0x320
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81167449>] ?
____cache_alloc_node+0x99/0x160
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff811683cb>] ?
kmem_cache_alloc+0x11b/0x190
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81439c18>] ?
sk_prot_alloc+0x48/0x1c0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8143acf2>] ? sk_clone+0x22/0x2e0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81489bc6>] ?
inet_csk_clone+0x16/0xd0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff814a2ad3>] ?
tcp_create_openreq_child+0x23/0x450
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff814a02cd>] ?
tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0x4d/0x310
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff814a2876>] ?
tcp_check_req+0x226/0x460
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8149fd6b>] ?
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x35b/0x430
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81065c54>] ?
enqueue_task_fair+0x64/0x100
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff814a157e>] ?
tcp_v4_rcv+0x4fe/0x8d0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8147f36d>] ?
ip_local_deliver_finish+0xdd/0x2d0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8147f5f8>] ?
ip_local_deliver+0x98/0xa0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8147eabd>] ?
ip_rcv_finish+0x12d/0x440
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8147f045>] ? ip_rcv+0x275/0x350
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8144827b>] ?
__netif_receive_skb+0x4ab/0x750
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8149e89a>] ?
tcp4_gro_receive+0x5a/0xd0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8144a658>] ?
netif_receive_skb+0x58/0x60
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8144a760>] ?
napi_skb_finish+0x50/0x70
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8144cd09>] ?
napi_gro_receive+0x39/0x50
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffffa0115bb8>] ?
tg3_poll_work+0x788/0xe50 [tg3]
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff810a7b05>] ?
tick_dev_program_event+0x65/0xc0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffffa011df10>] ?
tg3_poll+0x70/0x440 [tg3]
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81076d58>] ? irq_exit+0x48/0x90
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8144ce23>] ?
net_rx_action+0x103/0x2f0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81076fb1>] ?
__do_softirq+0xc1/0x1e0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff810e1720>] ?
handle_IRQ_event+0x60/0x170
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8100c1cc>] ?
call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8100de05>] ? do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81076d95>] ? irq_exit+0x85/0x90
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81516d75>] ? do_IRQ+0x75/0xf0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8100b9d3>] ?
ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: <EOI>  [<ffffffff8103b90b>] ?
native_safe_halt+0xb/0x10
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff8101495d>] ?
default_idle+0x4d/0xb0
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81014a5d>] ? c1e_idle+0x9d/0x120
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81009fc6>] ? cpu_idle+0xb6/0x110
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff814f300a>] ? rest_init+0x7a/0x80
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81c27f7b>] ?
start_kernel+0x424/0x430
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81c2733a>] ?
x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
Mar  1 17:21:16 archive01 kernel: [<ffffffff81c27438>] ?
x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109

[root at archive01 ~]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8059636    7755352     304284          0    6879212      93708
-/+ buffers/cache:     782432    7277204
Swap:      4095992      20432    4075560


I was having this in sysctl.conf for some time without any problems and
have removed it now.

# Workaround for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713546
vm.min_free_kbytes = 512000
vm.zone_reclaim_mode = 1

Regards,
Simon