Re: Kernel 3.0: Instant kernel crash when mounting CIFS (also crashes with linux-3.1-rc2

[Steve French <smfrench-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz-BP4nVm5VUdNhbmWW9KSYcQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz-BP4nVm5VUdNhbmWW9KSYcQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:22:44 -0400 (EDT)
>>>> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz-BP4nVm5VUdNhbmWW9KSYcQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Justin.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To be clear -- incoming in this case is reads or writes?
>>>
>>> Reading from the CIFS share (Windows 7).
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Up until 3.0 cifs.ko didn't parallelize writes from a single thread. In
>>>> 3.0 I added a patchset to increase the allowable wsize and to allow the
>>>> kernel to issue writes in parallel.
>>>
>>> Ahh, good to know, have not tried writes yet.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reads still suffer from the same problem however. I'm working on a
>>>> patchset that should do the same thing for them, but it requires a
>>>> fairly substantial overhaul of the receive codepaths.
>>>
>>> Ok, that explains it then, thanks.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Watching the rsync, it ran for a while, then:
>
> rsync: send_files failed to open "/cifs/w1/r1/data/hs12/f4_0.JPG": Cannot
> allocate memory (12)
> rsync: send_files failed to open "/cifs/w1/r1/data/hs12/f4_1.JPG": Cannot
> allocate memory (12)
> rsync: send_files failed to open "/cifs/w1/r1/data/hs12/f4_2.JPG": Cannot
> allocate memory (12)
> rsync: send_files failed to open "/cifs/w1/r1/data/hs12/f4_0.JPG": Cannot
> allocate memory (12)

When we were testing async write to Windows 7 Pavel mentioned to me
another WIndows 7 bug - which may be what you are hitting.

Under stress of simultaneous operations, Windows 7 server will sometimes start
responding with STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES error code
(mapped to posix error ENOMEM by the Linux cifs kernel client)
He solved it by setting MaxWorkItems to 4096 in the Windows 7 registry.

If anyone knows whether Microsoft has fixed this or has a bug #, let us know
because it is easier to hit with Linux kernel 3.0 and later (to
Windows 7 server).



-- 
Thanks,

Steve