[CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

Tue Jul 1 20:09:04 UTC 2014
Alexandru Cardaniuc <cardaniuc at gmail.com>

"James A. Peltier" <jpeltier at sfu.ca> writes:

> | I am having an issue with an XFS filesystem shutting down under high
> | load with very many small files. Basically, I have around 3.5 - 4
> | million files on this filesystem. New files are being written to the
> | FS all the time, until I get to 9-11 mln small files (35k on
> | average).
> | 
> | at some point I get the following in dmesg:
> | 
> | [2870477.695512] Filesystem "sda5": XFS internal error
> | xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c. Caller
> | 0xffffffff8826bb7d [2870477.695558] [2870477.695559] Call Trace:
> | [2870477.695611]  [<ffffffff88262c28>]
> | :xfs:xfs_trans_cancel+0x5b/0xfe [2870477.695643] 
> | [<ffffffff8826bb7d>] :xfs:xfs_mkdir+0x57c/0x5d7 [2870477.695673] 
> | [<ffffffff8822f3f8>] :xfs:xfs_attr_get+0xbf/0xd2 [2870477.695707] 
> | [<ffffffff88273326>] :xfs:xfs_vn_mknod+0x1e1/0x3bb [2870477.695726] 
> | [<ffffffff80264929>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0x14 [2870477.695736] 
> | [<ffffffff802230e6>] __up_read+0x19/0x7f [2870477.695764] 
> | [<ffffffff8824f8f4>] :xfs:xfs_iunlock+0x57/0x79 [2870477.695776] 
> | [<ffffffff80264929>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0x14 [2870477.695784] 
> | [<ffffffff802230e6>] __up_read+0x19/0x7f [2870477.695791] 
> | [<ffffffff80209f4c>] __d_lookup+0xb0/0xff [2870477.695803] 
> | [<ffffffff8020cd4a>] _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x39/0x57
> | [2870477.695814]  [<ffffffff8022d6db>] mntput_no_expire+0x19/0x89
> | [2870477.695829]  [<ffffffff80264929>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0x14
> | [2870477.695837]  [<ffffffff802230e6>] __up_read+0x19/0x7f
> | [2870477.695861]  [<ffffffff8824f8f4>] :xfs:xfs_iunlock+0x57/0x79
> | [2870477.695887]  [<ffffffff882680af>] :xfs:xfs_access+0x3d/0x46
> | [2870477.695899]  [<ffffffff80264929>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0x14
> | [2870477.695923]  [<ffffffff802df4a3>] vfs_mkdir+0xe3/0x152
> | [2870477.695933]  [<ffffffff802dfa79>] sys_mkdirat+0xa3/0xe4
> | [2870477.695953]  [<ffffffff80260295>] tracesys+0x47/0xb6
> | [2870477.695963]  [<ffffffff802602f9>] tracesys+0xab/0xb6
> | [2870477.695977] [2870477.695985] xfs_force_shutdown(sda5,0x8)
> | called from line 1139 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c.  Return address =
> | 0xffffffff88262c46 [2870477.696452] Filesystem "sda5": Corruption of
> | in-memory data detected.  Shutting down filesystem: sda5
> | [2870477.696464] Please umount the filesystem, and rectify the
> | problem(s)
> | 
> | # ls -l /store ls: /store: Input/output error ?--------- 0 root root
> | 0 Jan  1  1970 /store
> | 
> | Filesystems is ~1T in size # df -hT /store Filesystem    Type   
> | Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5      xfs    910G  142G 
> | 769G  16% /store
> | 
> | 
> | Using CentOS 5.9 with kernel 2.6.18-348.el5xen
> | 
> | 
> | The filesystem is in a virtual machine (Xen) and on top of LVM.
> | 
> | Filesystem was created using mkfs.xfs defaults with
> | xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.el5.centos (that's the one that comes with CentOS
> | 5.x by default.)
> | 
> | These are the defaults with which the filesystem was created: #
> | xfs_info /store meta-data=/dev/sda5              isize=256   
> | agcount=32, agsize=7454720 blks          =                      
> | sectsz=512   attr=0 data     =                       bsize=4096  
> | blocks=238551040, imaxpct=25          =                      
> | sunit=0      swidth=0 blks,          unwritten=1 naming   =version
> | 2              bsize=4096 log      =internal              
> | bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=1         
> | =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks,         
> | lazy-count=0 realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0,
> | rtextents=0
> | 
> | The problem is reproducible and I don't think it's hardware related.
> | The problem was reproduced on multiple servers of the same type. So,
> | I doubt it's a memory issue or something like that.
> | 
> | Is that a known issue? If it is then what's the fix? I went through
> | the kernel updates for CentOS 5.10 (newer kernel), but didn't see
> | any xfs related fixes since CentOS 5.9
> | 
> | Any help will be greatly appreciated...
> | 
> | 
> | -- "If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out of
> | it, because the answer is not separate from the problem." -
> | Krishnamurti
>
> Sorry, further to this, most bugs related to XFS are related to kernel
> bugs. I can see that you're running an older kernel and just because
> you don't see the bugs listed in the errata doesn't mean the bugs
> haven't been found as part of the backport process

So, you suggest I try my luck with the newer kernel from CentOS 5.10?

What's the proper way to open a bug for this against CentOS 5 / RHEL 5?

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