Ocfs2 mount Hung on Journal Commit Deadlock in "jbd2_journal_commit_transaction" (Doc ID 1948934.1)

Last updated on JULY 09, 2023

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 5.5 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [2.6.32] and later
Oracle VM - Version 3.1.1 and later
Linux x86-64

In Oracle VM environment, the repositories are using attached external storage, and the lun could be recognized correctly.

But you may encounter following problem:

some specific repository got hung, and not able to refresh the repository via Manager GUI.

Any operation, like ls, df etc, on the repository (OCFS2 mount) gets hung
Confirmed there is no storage issue
The virtual machines hosted on the repository gets hung as well
Reboot one OCFS2 node could not resolve the hung. You need to reboot all nodes in the pool to solve the issue

Oracle VM server system log shows Call Trace below:

Same hung issue can also occur on Oracle Linux server with OCFS2 filesystem mounted:

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