IBM Support

IV64784: PERFSTAT FAIL TO RETURN DKSTAT OF ALL DISKS APPLIES TO AIX 7100-03

A fix is available

Subscribe

You can track all active APARs for this component.

 

APAR status

  • Closed as program error.

Error description

  • iostat dumped core with the stack:
    
    IOT/Abort?trap?in?pthread_kill?at?0xd053d994?($t1)
    0xd053d994?(pthread_kill+0xb4)?80410014????????????lwz???
    r2,0x14(r1)
    (dbx)?where
    pthread_kill(??,???)?at?0xd053d994
    _p_raise(??)?at?0xd053cde4
    raise.raise(??)?at?0xd01209a0
    abort()?at?0xd017c164
    __stack_chk_fail()?at?0xd03fb720
    is_virtual_disk(??)?at?0x1000d160
    

Local fix

Problem summary

  • iostat is core dumping.
    

Problem conclusion

  • perfstat code is modified by taking lock before getting disk
    count and set temporary allocated memory to zero before
    populating it with valid data.
    

Temporary fix

Comments

  • 6100-08 - use AIX APAR IV70138
    6100-09 - use AIX APAR IV64931
    7100-02 - use AIX APAR IV70199
    7100-03 - use AIX APAR IV64784
    

APAR Information

  • APAR number

    IV64784

  • Reported component name

    AIX V7.1

  • Reported component ID

    5765H4000

  • Reported release

    710

  • Status

    CLOSED PER

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Submitted date

    2014-09-11

  • Closed date

    2014-09-12

  • Last modified date

    2015-09-30

Fix information

  • Fixed component name

    AIX V7.1

  • Fixed component ID

    5765H4000

Applicable component levels

  • R710 PSY U865724

       UP15/05/19 I 1000

PTF to Fileset Mapping

[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU054","label":"Systems w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SSMV87","label":"AIX 6.1 Enterprise Edition"},"Component":"","ARM Category":[],"Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"710","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB08","label":"Cognitive Systems"}},{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SSMVAX","label":"AIX Express Edition"},"Component":"","ARM Category":[],"Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"710","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB08","label":"Cognitive Systems"}},{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU054","label":"Systems w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SG11R","label":"AIX 7.1 HIPERS, APARs and Fixes"},"Component":"","ARM Category":[],"Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"710","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"","label":""}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
30 September 2015