ubuntu_vfat_stress hang on ppc64el with eoan 5.3.0-42.34 kernel

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:43:14AM -0800, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that back on xenial, there was a known ubuntu_vfat_stress hang bug [1]
> that only affected i386. There's been no mention of the bug occurring on
> anything else since.
> 
> However, powerpc hit the ubuntu_vfat_stress hang on the newest eoan kernel [2].
> 
> Is this a cause for concern or is this issue benign?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sultan
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-kernel-tests/+bug/1814231
> [2] https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-eoan/eoan/ppc64el/l/linux/20200229_025412_feca6@/log.gz
> 

Colin would be the expert here, but if I remember correctly, the possible issue
was slow storage. As this is happening on ADT, it might as well be the cause.

But it would be better to double check that.

Cascardo.