[Gluster-devel] glusterfsd crash due to page allocation failure

Pranith Kumar Karampuri pkarampu at redhat.com
Tue Dec 22 17:11:35 UTC 2015



On 12/22/2015 09:10 PM, David Robinson wrote:
> Pranith,
> This issue continues to happen.  If you could provide instructions for 
> getting you the statedump, I would be happy to send that information.
> I am not sure how to get a statedump just before the crash as the 
> crash is intermittent.
Command: gluster volume statedump <volname>

This generates statedump files in /var/run/gluster/ directory. Do you 
think you can execute this command once every 'X' time until the crash 
is hit? Post these files and hopefully that should be good enough to fix 
the problem.

Pranith
> David
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com 
> <mailto:pkarampu at redhat.com>>
> To: "Glomski, Patrick" <patrick.glomski at corvidtec.com 
> <mailto:patrick.glomski at corvidtec.com>>; gluster-devel at gluster.org 
> <mailto:gluster-devel at gluster.org>; gluster-users at gluster.org 
> <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>
> Cc: "David Robinson" <david.robinson at corvidtec.com 
> <mailto:david.robinson at corvidtec.com>>
> Sent: 12/21/2015 11:59:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] glusterfsd crash due to page allocation 
> failure
>> hi Glomski,
>>         This is the second time I am hearing about memory allocation 
>> problems in 3.7.6 but this time on brick side. Are you able to 
>> recreate this issue? Will it be possible to get statedumps of the 
>> bricks processes just before they crash?
>>
>> Pranith
>>
>> On 12/22/2015 02:25 AM, Glomski, Patrick wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We've recently upgraded from gluster 3.6.6 to 3.7.6 and have started 
>>> encountering dmesg page allocation errors (stack trace is appended).
>>>
>>> It appears that glusterfsd now sometimes fills up the cache 
>>> completely and crashes with a page allocation failure. I *believe* 
>>> it mainly happens when copying lots of new data to the system, 
>>> running a 'find', or similar. Hosts are all Scientific Linux 6.6 and 
>>> these errors occur consistently on two separate gluster pools.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this issue and are there any known fixes for it 
>>> via sysctl kernel parameters or other means?
>>>
>>> Please let me know of any other diagnostic information that would help.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>
>>>     [1458118.134697] glusterfsd: page allocation failure. order:5,
>>>     mode:0x20
>>>     [1458118.134701] Pid: 6010, comm: glusterfsd Not tainted
>>>     2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1
>>>     [1458118.134702] Call Trace:
>>>     [1458118.134714]  [<ffffffff8113770c>] ?
>>>     __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7dc/0x950
>>>     [1458118.134728]  [<ffffffffa0321800>] ?
>>>     mlx4_ib_post_send+0x680/0x1f90 [mlx4_ib]
>>>     [1458118.134733]  [<ffffffff81176e92>] ? kmem_getpages+0x62/0x170
>>>     [1458118.134735]  [<ffffffff81177aaa>] ? fallback_alloc+0x1ba/0x270
>>>     [1458118.134736]  [<ffffffff811774ff>] ? cache_grow+0x2cf/0x320
>>>     [1458118.134738]  [<ffffffff81177829>] ?
>>>     ____cache_alloc_node+0x99/0x160
>>>     [1458118.134743]  [<ffffffff8145f732>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x62/0x280
>>>     [1458118.134744]  [<ffffffff81178479>] ? __kmalloc+0x199/0x230
>>>     [1458118.134746]  [<ffffffff8145f732>] ? pskb_expand_head+0x62/0x280
>>>     [1458118.134748]  [<ffffffff8146001a>] ?
>>>     __pskb_pull_tail+0x2aa/0x360
>>>     [1458118.134751]  [<ffffffff8146f389>] ?
>>>     harmonize_features+0x29/0x70
>>>     [1458118.134753]  [<ffffffff8146f9f4>] ?
>>>     dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1c4/0x490
>>>     [1458118.134758]  [<ffffffff8148cf8a>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x15a/0x1c0
>>>     [1458118.134759]  [<ffffffff8146ff68>] ? dev_queue_xmit+0x228/0x320
>>>     [1458118.134762]  [<ffffffff8147665d>] ?
>>>     neigh_connected_output+0xbd/0x100
>>>     [1458118.134766]  [<ffffffff814abc67>] ?
>>>     ip_finish_output+0x287/0x360
>>>     [1458118.134767]  [<ffffffff814abdf8>] ? ip_output+0xb8/0xc0
>>>     [1458118.134769]  [<ffffffff814ab04f>] ? __ip_local_out+0x9f/0xb0
>>>     [1458118.134770]  [<ffffffff814ab085>] ? ip_local_out+0x25/0x30
>>>     [1458118.134772]  [<ffffffff814ab580>] ? ip_queue_xmit+0x190/0x420
>>>     [1458118.134773]  [<ffffffff81137059>] ?
>>>     __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x129/0x950
>>>     [1458118.134776]  [<ffffffff814c0c54>] ?
>>>     tcp_transmit_skb+0x4b4/0x8b0
>>>     [1458118.134778]  [<ffffffff814c319a>] ? tcp_write_xmit+0x1da/0xa90
>>>     [1458118.134779]  [<ffffffff81178cbd>] ? __kmalloc_node+0x4d/0x60
>>>     [1458118.134780]  [<ffffffff814c3a80>] ? tcp_push_one+0x30/0x40
>>>     [1458118.134782]  [<ffffffff814b410c>] ? tcp_sendmsg+0x9cc/0xa20
>>>     [1458118.134786]  [<ffffffff8145836b>] ? sock_aio_write+0x19b/0x1c0
>>>     [1458118.134788]  [<ffffffff814581d0>] ? sock_aio_write+0x0/0x1c0
>>>     [1458118.134791]  [<ffffffff8119169b>] ?
>>>     do_sync_readv_writev+0xfb/0x140
>>>     [1458118.134797]  [<ffffffff810a14b0>] ?
>>>     autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
>>>     [1458118.134801]  [<ffffffff8123e92f>] ?
>>>     selinux_file_permission+0xbf/0x150
>>>     [1458118.134804]  [<ffffffff812316d6>] ?
>>>     security_file_permission+0x16/0x20
>>>     [1458118.134806]  [<ffffffff81192746>] ? do_readv_writev+0xd6/0x1f0
>>>     [1458118.134807]  [<ffffffff811928a6>] ? vfs_writev+0x46/0x60
>>>     [1458118.134809]  [<ffffffff811929d1>] ? sys_writev+0x51/0xd0
>>>     [1458118.134812]  [<ffffffff810e88ae>] ?
>>>     __audit_syscall_exit+0x25e/0x290
>>>     [1458118.134816]  [<ffffffff8100b0d2>] ?
>>>     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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