Eugene M. Zheganin
2012-Feb-06 19:01 UTC
VOP_WRITE <hex> is not exclusive locked but should be
Hi. I have a server with an 8.2-RELEASE/amd64. It's primary use for routing/ipsec+gre tunneling. It's also running zfs. Sometimes it's locking up: it stops to respond to the network, but the console is still alive, though it doesn't log me in - the 'password:' prompt never comes up (I only can type my username or enter key). I've built a kernel with DEBUG_LOCKS/DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS, KDB/DDB, INVARIANTS, WITNESS and stuff. The only problem is that when booting such a new kernel and DEBUG_LOCKS/DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS are present, I get VOP_PUTPAGES: <hex> is not exclusive locked but should be and the kernel immidiately enters ddb. This happens on a daemons startup after the kernel is boot up and filesystems are mounted. Is this something that is safe to ignore (then how do I ignore that ? 'continue' only makes a new VOP_PUTPAGES message appear) ? Is it something that can lock up my server later on and should I report that ? I saw similar message (only it was about VOP_WRITE) in this maillist about 7-STABLE, someone said to try a memtest. I did one pass of a memtest (I know this isn't enough, but I cannot run it there for a day, and, furthermore, I got this message in subject immidiately on multiuser boot sequence so my guess is - the errors should appear immidiately too) and it didn't find any errors. Thanks. Eugene.