linux-ext4 - Re: WARNING at fs/ext4/inode.c ext4_evict

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jul 2016 17:24:12 -0700
From:	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC:	<linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
	calvinowens <calvinowens@...com>
Subject: Re: WARNING at fs/ext4/inode.c ext4_evict_inode() triggers on 4.0

On 06/30/2016 12:00 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 17-06-16 20:04:34, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Fri 17-06-16 13:40:33, Calvin Owens wrote:
>>> On Thursday 06/16 at 10:33 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>> Hi Calvin,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed 15-06-16 16:49:39, Calvin Owens wrote:
>>>>> I'm hitting the following warning on a 4.0 kernel:
>>>>>
>>>>>   WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 1005611 at fs/ext4/inode.c:233 ext4_evict_inode+0x4be/0x4d0()
>>>>>   CPU: 15 PID: 1005611 Comm: rocksdb:bg0 Not tainted 4.0.9-60_fbk10_rc1_3974_g796b9b6 #1
>>>>>   Call Trace:
>>>>>   [<ffffffff8176af8e>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x63
>>>>>   [<ffffffff8106c4dc>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xd0
>>>>>   [<ffffffff8106c5da>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
>>>>>   [<ffffffff81242c0e>] ext4_evict_inode+0x4be/0x4d0
>>>>>   [<ffffffff811d248b>] evict+0xbb/0x190
>>>>>   [<ffffffff811d2d6d>] iput+0x17d/0x1e0
>>>>>   [<ffffffff811ce0e0>] __dentry_kill+0x190/0x1e0
>>>>>   [<ffffffff811ce2d1>] dput+0x1a1/0x1f0
>>>>>   [<ffffffff811b952a>] __fput+0x17a/0x210
>>>>>   [<ffffffff811b960e>] ____fput+0xe/0x10
>>>>>   [<ffffffff81086dbf>] task_work_run+0xbf/0x100
>>>>>   [<ffffffff81002bcc>] do_notify_resume+0x7c/0x90
>>>>>   [<ffffffff81771529>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
>>>>>
>>>>> Commit 822dbba ("ext4: fix warning in ext4_evict_inode()") proportedly fixed
>>>>> this in 3.11. The check was entirely removed in 4.6.
>>>>
>>>> OK, so this is the warning:
>>>>
>>>> WARN_ON(atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_ioend_count));
>>>>
>>>> It was removed in 4.6 since we maintained i_ioend_count only to be able to
>>>> do this check and it didn't trigger for a long time. So it is interesting
>>>> that it actually triggered for you with 4.0.
>>>>
>>>>> Is it interesting to you that this triggers on 4.0? I can revert 600be30 and
>>>>> see if I can reproduce it on upstream, but since the check got removed I
>>>>> was wondering if there was post-4.0 work that makes it obsolete?
>>>>
>>>> It would be great. I'm attaching a revert and an additional debug patch. If
>>>> you can run with these two on the latest kernel (or even just apply the debug
>>>> patch on top of 4.0) and reproduce the issue with it, I would be grateful.
>>>
>>> Forgot to attach the patches? Or did my mailserver eat them? :)
>>
>> Sorry, probably forgot to attach. Here they are.
>
> Any luck with the patch?

No luck at all :/

Whatever triggers this is extraordinarily rare, and I haven't been able to pin it
down: I see the WARN from 1-2 random hosts each day across all of FB's servers.

I'll keep at it and let you know if I get anything, hopefully soon.

Thanks,
Calvin

> 									Honza
>

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