On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:47:00AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 03/27/12 11:44, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Now that we write back all metadata either synchronously or through the AIL
> >we can simply implement metadata freezing in terms of emptying the AIL.
> >
> >The implementation for this is fairly simply and straight-forward: A new
> >routine is added that increments a counter that tells xfsaild to not stop
> >until the AIL is empty and then waits on a wakeup from
> >xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk to signal that the AIL is empty.
> >
> >As usual the devil is in the details, in this case the filesystem shutdown
> >code. Currently we are a bit sloppy there and do not continue ail pushing
> >in that case, and thus never reach the code in the log item implementations
> >that can unwind in case of a shutdown filesystem. Also the code to
> >abort inode and dquot flushes was rather sloppy before and did not remove
> >the log items from the AIL, which had to be fixed as well.
> >
> >Also treat unmount the same way as freeze now, except that we still keep a
> >synchronous inode reclaim pass to make sure we reclaim all clean inodes, too.
> >
> >As an upside we can now remove the radix tree based inode writeback and
> >xfs_unmountfs_writesb.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Sorry for the empty email.
>
> This series hangs my test boxes. This patch is the first indication
> of the hang. Reboot, and remove patch 4 and the test are successful.
>
> The machine is still responsive. Only the SCRATCH filesystem from
> the test suite is hung.
>
> Per Dave's observation, I added a couple inode reclaims to this
> patch and the test gets further (hangs on run 9 of test 068 rather
> than run 3).
That implies that there are dirty inodes at the VFS level leaking
through the freeze.
.....
> The back traces are from a Linux 3.4-rc2 kernel with just patches
> 0-4 of this series applied. This traceback does not have extra inode
> reclaims. The hang is in test 068. I did an ls and sync to the
> filesystem, so I included their tracebacks as well. live system.
>
> I have looked at the remaining patches in the series, but have not
> reviewed them because they depend on this patch...
>
> --Mark.
> ---
>
> crash> bt -f 20050
> PID: 20050 TASK: ffff88034a6943c0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "fsstress"
> #0 [ffff88034aa93d18] __schedule at ffffffff81416e50
> #1 [ffff88034aa93e60] schedule at ffffffff814171c4
> #2 [ffff88034aa93e70] do_wait at ffffffff81040e39
> #3 [ffff88034aa93ee0] sys_wait4 at ffffffff81040f11
> #4 [ffff88034aa93f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8141fff9
>
> PID: 20051 TASK: ffff88034e31e600 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "fsstress"
> #0 [ffff88034c5c1c08] __schedule at ffffffff81416e50
> #1 [ffff88034c5c1d50] schedule at ffffffff814171c4
> #2 [ffff88034c5c1d60] xfs_file_aio_write at ffffffffa044d4b5 [xfs]
> #3 [ffff88034c5c1df0] do_sync_write at ffffffff8114d3d9
> #4 [ffff88034c5c1f10] vfs_write at ffffffff8114da0b
> #5 [ffff88034c5c1f40] sys_write at ffffffff8114db60
> #6 [ffff88034c5c1f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8141fff9
Frozen write, not holding any locks.
> PID: 20052 TASK: ffff88034ad56080 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "fsstress"
> #0 [ffff88034a88fbb8] __schedule at ffffffff81416e50
> #1 [ffff88034a88fd00] schedule at ffffffff814171c4
> #2 [ffff88034a88fd10] schedule_timeout at ffffffff81415455
> #3 [ffff88034a88fdb0] wait_for_common at ffffffff814166b7
> #4 [ffff88034a88fe40] wait_for_completion at ffffffff81416828
> #5 [ffff88034a88fe50] sync_inodes_sb at ffffffff81174eaa
> #6 [ffff88034a88fee0] __sync_filesystem at ffffffff8117a4a0
> #7 [ffff88034a88ff00] sync_one_sb at ffffffff8117a4c7
> #8 [ffff88034a88ff10] iterate_supers at ffffffff8115126b
> #9 [ffff88034a88ff50] sys_sync at ffffffff8117a515
> #10 [ffff88034a88ff80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8141fff9
Waiting for flusher thread completion, holding the sb->s_umount lock
in read mode.
> PID: 20089 TASK: ffff88034c5ca340 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "xfs_freeze"
> #0 [ffff88034aaafd18] __schedule at ffffffff81416e50
> #1 [ffff88034aaafe60] schedule at ffffffff814171c4
> #2 [ffff88034aaafe70] do_wait at ffffffff81040e39
> #3 [ffff88034aaafee0] sys_wait4 at ffffffff81040f11
> #4 [ffff88034aaaff80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8141fff9
>
> PID: 20093 TASK: ffff88034b42a4c0 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "xfs_io"
> #0 [ffff88034c3abc98] __schedule at ffffffff81416e50
> #1 [ffff88034c3abde0] schedule at ffffffff814171c4
> #2 [ffff88034c3abdf0] rwsem_down_failed_common at ffffffff81417de5
> #3 [ffff88034c3abe60] rwsem_down_write_failed at ffffffff81417e93
> #4 [ffff88034c3abe70] call_rwsem_down_write_failed at ffffffff8123fd93
> #5 [ffff88034c3abeb0] down_write at ffffffff81416110
> #6 [ffff88034c3abec0] thaw_super at ffffffff81150343
> #7 [ffff88034c3abef0] do_vfs_ioctl at ffffffff8115efb8
> #8 [ffff88034c3abf30] sys_ioctl at ffffffff8115f139
> #9 [ffff88034c3abf80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8141fff9
waiting for sb->s_umount, which can only be released by flusher
thread completion.
> PID: 20185 TASK: ffff88034c31c280 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "sync"
> #0 [ffff88034afe7b88] __schedule at ffffffff81416e50
> #1 [ffff88034afe7cd0] schedule at ffffffff814171c4
> #2 [ffff88034afe7ce0] schedule_timeout at ffffffff81415455
> #3 [ffff88034afe7d80] wait_for_common at ffffffff814166b7
> #4 [ffff88034afe7e10] wait_for_completion at ffffffff81416828
> #5 [ffff88034afe7e20] writeback_inodes_sb_nr at ffffffff81174c69
> #6 [ffff88034afe7eb0] writeback_inodes_sb at ffffffff8117522c
> #7 [ffff88034afe7ee0] __sync_filesystem at ffffffff8117a469
> #8 [ffff88034afe7f00] sync_one_sb at ffffffff8117a4c7
> #9 [ffff88034afe7f10] iterate_supers at ffffffff8115126b
> #10 [ffff88034afe7f50] sys_sync at ffffffff8117a4ff
> #11 [ffff88034afe7f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8141fff9
waiting for flusher thread completion, holding the sb->s_umount lock
in read mode.
>
> PID: 20110 TASK: ffff88034a4820c0 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "ls"
> #0 [ffff88034a855c78] __schedule at ffffffff81416e50
> #1 [ffff88034a855dc0] schedule at ffffffff814171c4
> #2 [ffff88034a855dd0] xfs_trans_alloc at ffffffffa0499fb5 [xfs]
> #3 [ffff88034a855e30] xfs_fs_dirty_inode at ffffffffa0457aa2 [xfs]
> #4 [ffff88034a855e60] __mark_inode_dirty at ffffffff811753da
> #5 [ffff88034a855ea0] touch_atime at ffffffff811662db
> #6 [ffff88034a855ef0] vfs_readdir at ffffffff8115f934
> #7 [ffff88034a855f30] sys_getdents64 at ffffffff8115f9c3
> #8 [ffff88034a855f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8141fff9
Frozen attribute modification, no locks held.
So, what are the flusher threads doing - where are they stuck?
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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