As described at $URL, 3.7 any locking operation including activation of clustered LVM VGs fails with "invalid argument". This is fixed by d4b0bcf32b946590afd29e202d6a399b84fe6c67 in 3.8. Any chance for this to make it into genpatches for 3.7? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot a 3.7.* kernel on a system with sys-fs/lvm2[clvm] 2. start clvmd 3. vgchange -ay in the presence of clustered volume groups Actual Results: Activation of clustered volumes fails with Invalid argument Applying http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=d4b0bcf32b946590afd29e202d6a399b84fe6c67 fixes it. Expected Results: Activation should have succeeded Portage 2.2.0_alpha166 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.10-gentoo-jmb x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-jmb-x86_64-Dual-Core_AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_2218-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 16442368 total, 15571284 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194300 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.4, 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo jmb Installed sets: @jmb-virt ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=3.0" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy clean-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j -l3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/portage/repo/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/portage/repo/jmb" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl ads amd64 apache2 berkdb bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus device-mapper dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 jpeg kerberos ldap lzma mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nfs nls nptl openmp pam pam_krb5 pcre perl png readline sasl session smp snmp spice sse sse2 ssl tcpd threads udev unicode vim-syntax xattr xml zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="lvm multipath" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident v4l vesa via vmware" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
3.7 is EOL. Any consideration to going to a 3.8 kernel?
Sorry, was that a general question to kernel@ or to me as reporter? In the latter case: sure, I just try to stick to stable on the affected servers and apparently there is no stable 3.8 version. If that was the question to the kernel team, sorry for the noise but +1 for getting 3.8 stable.
It was for you. I try not to ask myself questions. :)
Makes sense :) Well, went to 3.8.5 which fixes this issue as expected and generally seems to work fine so far, i.e. all VMs running on top of this cluster smoothly survived the migration. Thanks for your time!
If you wonder about this in the future, you can take a look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/herds.xml where you can find "kernel", you can see both of us listed under that. Have fun with your working cluster. :)
