Failed E-Series thin volumes resulting in recursive controller(s) reboot
Applies to
- All E-Series platforms
- Thin provisioned volumes
- E-Series SANtricity OS 11.40.x or 11.50.x
- Latest 11.30 E-Series SANtricity OS
Issue
- Potentially, one or more failed thin provisioned volumes are reported in SANtricity management application.
- Controller(s) is/are recursively rebooting due to a software page fault exception. The exception log (excLogShow) includes one or both of the following exceptions:
Exception: Page Fault
errCode: 0 pc: 0xffffffff819f1ff1 _ZN4vutl13WriteAheadLog17waLogFreePrefetchEv + 0x1
Registers:
r15 = 0xffff8000208580b0 r14 = 0xffff800020858100 r13 = 0x0000000000000005 r12 = 0xffff800020858100
r11 = 0x0000000100210d48 r10 = 0x0000000100210d48 r9 = 0xffff80001a82e534 r8 = 0xffff80001a82e500
rdi = 0x0000000000000000 rsi = 0xffff800020857a58 rbp = 0xffff80002067ae80 rsp = 0xffff80002067ade0
rbx = 0xffff800020856d30 rdx = 0xffff800020857a50 rcx = 0x0000000000000000 rax = 0xffff800020857a50
rflags = 0x0000000000000286 pc = 0xffffffff819f1ff1 fs = 0x0000000000000000
Stack Trace:
ffffffff80544978 vxTaskEntry +0x58 : vkiTask +0x89 ()
ffffffff802e6843 vkiTask +0xb3 : _ZN3cow16RepositoryVolume13workQueueTaskEPNS0_16WorkQueueControlE +0x28 ()
ffffffff81bb5778 _ZN3cow16RepositoryVolume13workQueueTaskEPNS0_16WorkQueueControlE+0x218 : _ZN3cow16RepositoryVolume17recoverRepositoryEb ()
ffffffff819f1ff1 _ZN4vutl13WriteAheadLog17waLogFreePrefetchEv+0x1 : (current instruction)
Exception: Page Fault
errCode: 0 pc: 0xffffffff81b8ce16 _ZN3cow16RepositoryVolume23getClusterLocationIndexEP3bufyy + 0xa6
Registers:
r15 = 0xffff8000208539b0 r14 = 0xffff800020854d00 r13 = 0xffff8000516260c0 r12 = 0x0000000000000005
r11 = 0xffff80002069dfe0 r10 = 0x0000000000000000 r9 = 0x0000000000000000 r8 = 0x0000000000000200
rdi = 0xffff800020854d00 rsi = 0x0000000000000000 rbp = 0xffff800004b91b30 rsp = 0xffff800004b919d0
rbx = 0xffff8000516260c0 rdx = 0x0000000000000005 rcx = 0x0000000000000800 rax = 0x0000000000000000
rflags = 0x0000000000000282 pc = 0xffffffff81b8ce16 fs = 0x0000000000000000
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