IBM Support

IJ29261: KERNEL MAY CRASH ON ZLINUX WHILE RUNNING MMAP WORKLOAD IF TRACEIODATA CONFIGURATION IS ENABLED

Subscribe to this APAR

By subscribing, you receive periodic emails alerting you to the status of the APAR, along with a link to the fix after it becomes available. You can track this item individually or track all items by product.

Notify me when this APAR changes.

Notify me when an APAR for this component changes.

 

APAR status

  • Closed as program error.

Error description

  • On zLinux, while running a mmap workload with
    traceIoData configuration enabled, the trace code
    may trigger a page fault and cause the kernel to crash
    

Local fix

  • Do not enable traceIoData
    

Problem summary

  • On zLinux, while running a mmap workload with
    traceIoData configuration enabled, the trace code
    may trigger a page fault and cause the kernel to crash
    

Problem conclusion

  • Benefits of the solution:
    No more crash
    
    Work Around:
    Do not enable traceIoData
    
    Problem trigger:
    One zLinux, while running mmap workload with
    traceIoData configuration enabled, the trace code
    may trigger page fault and cause kernel crash
    
    Symptom:
    Abend/Crash
    
    Platforms affected:
    s390x-linux only
    
    Functional Area affected:
    mmap
    
    Customer Impact:
    High Importance
    

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

  • APAR number

    IJ29261

  • Reported component name

    SPEC SCALE STD

  • Reported component ID

    5737F33AP

  • Reported release

    510

  • Status

    CLOSED PER

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Special Attention

    NoSpecatt / Xsystem

  • Submitted date

    2020-11-16

  • Closed date

    2020-11-16

  • Last modified date

    2020-11-16

  • APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

  • APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

  • Fixed component name

    SPEC SCALE STD

  • Fixed component ID

    5737F33AP

Applicable component levels

[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"STXKQY","label":"IBM Spectrum Scale"},"Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"510","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB26","label":"Storage"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
14 December 2020