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[Allison Randal <allison@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan, what's the most important thing we could do to help you help us?
I see a few threads of inquiry in the comments that trailed off:

- abstracting Salvatore's script for high thrash rates on VM
creation/destruction and network namespace creation, to try reproducing
the issue without running openstack

- ext4 vs ext3

- capturing crashdumps from a devstack gate run (or simulated gate run
on a local machine)

- determining whether the failure is a regression from a previous
version of the kernel (seems not)

- determining whether the failure occurs on 3.11 kernel in addition to
3.2 kernel (seems it does)


What looks most promising? This is a critical issue, and still producing intermittent failures, so it's worth a prod or two on the OpenStack side to get things rolling again.

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Title:
  Neutron namespace metadata proxy triggers kernel crash on Ubuntu
  12.04/3.2 kernel

Status in OpenStack Neutron (virtual network service):
  Triaged
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  New
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In the past 9 days we have been seeing very frequent occurences of
  this kernel crash: http://paste.openstack.org/show/61869/

  Even if the particular crash pasted here is triggered by dnsmasq, in
  almost all cases the crash is actually triggered by the neutron metada
  proxy.

  This also affects nova badly since this issue, which appears namespace
  related, results in a hang while mounting the ndb device for key
  injection.

  logstash query:
  http://logstash.openstack.org/#eyJzZWFyY2giOiJcImtlcm5lbCBCVUcgYXQgL2J1aWxkL2J1aWxkZC9saW51eC0zLjIuMC9mcy9idWZmZXIuYzoyOTE3XCIgYW5kIGZpbGVuYW1lOnN5c2xvZy50eHQiLCJmaWVsZHMiOltdLCJvZmZzZXQiOjAsInRpbWVmcmFtZSI6ImN1c3RvbSIsImdyYXBobW9kZSI6ImNvdW50IiwidGltZSI6eyJmcm9tIjoiMjAxNC0wMS0xNlQxODo1MDo0OCswMDowMCIsInRvIjoiMjAxNC0wMS0yN1QxOToxNjoxMSswMDowMCIsInVzZXJfaW50ZXJ2YWwiOiIwIn0sInN0YW1wIjoxMzkwODUwMzI2ODY0fQ==

  We have seen about 398 hits since the bug started to manifest.
  Decreased hit rate in the past few days is due to less neutron patches being pushed.

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