linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39-rc3, 2.6.39-rc4: XFS lockup

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:26:22 +0200
From:	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	xfs-masters@....sgi.com, xfs@....sgi.com,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Alex Elder <aelder@....com>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc3, 2.6.39-rc4: XFS lockup - regression since 2.6.38

On Wed, 27 April 2011 Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:44:03PM +0200, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > Running 2.6.39-rc3+ and now again on 2.6.39-rc4+ (I've not tested -rc1
> > or -rc2) I've hit a "dying machine" where processes writing to disk end
> > up in D state.
> > From occurrence with -rc3+ I don't have logs as those never hit the disk,
> > for -rc4+ I have the following (sysrq+t was too big, what I have of it
> > misses a dozen of kernel tasks - if needed, please ask):
> > 
> > The -rc4 kernel is at commit 584f79046780e10cb24367a691f8c28398a00e84
> > (+ 1 patch of mine to stop disk on reboot),
> > full dmesg available if needed; kernel config attached (only selected
> > options). In case there is something I should do at next occurrence
> > please tell. Unfortunately I have no trigger for it and it does not
> > happen very often.
> > 
> > [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.39-rc4-00120-g73b5b55 (kbuild@...tune) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Gentoo 4.4.5 p1.2, pie-0.4.5) ) #12 Thu Apr 21 19:28:45 CEST 2011
> > 
> > 
> > [32040.120055] INFO: task flush-8:0:1665 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> > [32040.120068] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> > [32040.120077] flush-8:0       D 00000000  4908  1665      2 0x00000000
> > [32040.120099]  f55efb5c 00000046 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 e0382924 00000000
> > [32040.120118]  f55efb0c f55efb5c 00000004 f629ba70 572f01a2 00001cfe f629ba70 ffffffc0
> > [32040.120135]  f55efc68 f55efb30 f889d7f8 f55efb20 00000000 f55efc68 e0382900 f55efc94
> > [32040.120153] Call Trace:
> > [32040.120220]  [<f889d7f8>] ? xfs_bmap_search_multi_extents+0x88/0xe0 [xfs]
> > [32040.120239]  [<c109ce1d>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d/0x110
> > [32040.120294]  [<f88c88ca>] ? xlog_space_left+0x2a/0xc0 [xfs]
> > [32040.120346]  [<f88c85cb>] xlog_wait+0x4b/0x70 [xfs]
> > [32040.120359]  [<c102ca00>] ? try_to_wake_up+0xc0/0xc0
> > [32040.120411]  [<f88c948b>] xlog_grant_log_space+0x8b/0x240 [xfs]
> > [32040.120464]  [<f88c936e>] ? xlog_grant_push_ail+0xbe/0xf0 [xfs]
> > [32040.120516]  [<f88c99db>] xfs_log_reserve+0xab/0xb0 [xfs]
> > [32040.120571]  [<f88d6dc8>] xfs_trans_reserve+0x78/0x1f0 [xfs]
> 
> Hmmmmm. That may be caused by the conversion of the xfsaild to a
> work queue. Can you post the output of "xfs_info <mntpt>" and the
> mount options (/proc/mounts) used on you system?

Here it comes (including all XFS mount-points - with affected kernel
but after fresh boot):

* /proc/mountinfo *
/dev/sda6 /mnt/.SRC xfs rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home xfs rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda6 /var/cache/edb xfs rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda6 /usr/src xfs rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda6 /var/tmp xfs rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda6 /var/log xfs rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda6 /var/lib/portage/packages xfs rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota 0 0

* xfs_info *
meta-data=/dev/sda7              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=987996 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=3951982, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0


meta-data=/dev/sda6              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=655149 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=2620595, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0


Bruno
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