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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:04:36 +0400
From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
To: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>,
Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o\"" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.8.0-rc1: WARNING: at fs/ext4/page-io.c:232
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:29:07 +0800, Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 03:27:04AM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Let me know if you need more info
> >
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): write access will be enabled during recovery
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: truncating inode 841849 to 0 bytes
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at fs/ext4/page-io.c:232 ext4_flush_unwritten_io+0x6b/0x80()
> > Hardware name: P35-DS3
> > Modules linked in:
> > Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1-00004-g637704c #1
> > Call Trace:
> > [<ffffffff81038f5a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
> > [<ffffffff81038fa5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
> > [<ffffffff81163b8b>] ext4_flush_unwritten_io+0x6b/0x80
> > [<ffffffff8117ac5c>] ext4_ext_truncate+0x2c/0x1f0
> > [<ffffffff8116c6d0>] ? ext4_msg+0x50/0x60
> > [<ffffffff8115e050>] ext4_truncate+0x70/0xb0
> > [<ffffffff8117190b>] ext4_fill_super+0x2bab/0x2ce0
> > [<ffffffff810ef02a>] mount_bdev+0x1aa/0x1f0
> > [<ffffffff8102aec9>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x9/0x10
> > [<ffffffff8116ed60>] ? ext4_calculate_overhead+0x3a0/0x3a0
> > [<ffffffff8116a870>] ext4_mount+0x10/0x20
> > [<ffffffff810ef96b>] mount_fs+0x1b/0xd0
> > [<ffffffff81108fc1>] vfs_kern_mount+0x71/0x110
> > [<ffffffff8110b096>] do_mount+0x386/0x980
> > [<ffffffff810b7f43>] ? strndup_user+0x53/0x70
> > [<ffffffff8110b71b>] sys_mount+0x8b/0xe0
> > [<ffffffff816afcc8>] mount_block_root+0xfe/0x298
> > [<ffffffff816afeb8>] mount_root+0x56/0x5a
> > [<ffffffff816afff0>] prepare_namespace+0x134/0x16d
> > [<ffffffff8147c9c6>] kernel_init+0x196/0x2a0
> > [<ffffffff816af539>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
> > [<ffffffff8147c830>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
> > [<ffffffff81482a7c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> > [<ffffffff8147c830>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
> > ---[ end trace 425942f4f0ed8d07 ]---
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 835709
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 835629
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 682715
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 832545
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 677529
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 838885
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 676342
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 832311
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 683216
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 828057
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 847476
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 834769
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 846534
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 842096
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 833886
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 688996
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1085523
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 524364
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12686
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): 19 orphan inodes deleted
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): 1 truncate cleaned up
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): recovery complete
> > EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> This warning is from ext4_flush_unwritten_io() because we need to take
> i_mutex lock before calling this function. Ohterwise we will trigger a
> WARN_ON_ONCE(). But, unfortunately, we don't take this lock in
> ext4_orphan_cleanup(). So that is why we will get this warning when
> cleaning up orphan list. Could you please test this patch?
>
> Thanks,
> - Zheng
>
> Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fixup a warning from ext4_flush_unwritten_io() in orphan list cleanup
>
> From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
>
> When ext4 tries to clean up orphan list, we will get the following warning from
> ext4_flush_unwritten_io() because i_mutex lock doesn't be taken.
>
> EXT4-fs (sda2): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
> EXT4-fs (sda2): write access will be enabled during recovery
> EXT4-fs (sda2): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
> EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: truncating inode 841849 to 0 bytes
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at fs/ext4/page-io.c:232 ext4_flush_unwritten_io+0x6b/0x80()
> Hardware name: P35-DS3
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1-00004-g637704c #1
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff81038f5a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
> [<ffffffff81038fa5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
> [<ffffffff81163b8b>] ext4_flush_unwritten_io+0x6b/0x80
> [<ffffffff8117ac5c>] ext4_ext_truncate+0x2c/0x1f0
> [<ffffffff8116c6d0>] ? ext4_msg+0x50/0x60
> [<ffffffff8115e050>] ext4_truncate+0x70/0xb0
> [<ffffffff8117190b>] ext4_fill_super+0x2bab/0x2ce0
> [<ffffffff810ef02a>] mount_bdev+0x1aa/0x1f0
> [<ffffffff8102aec9>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x9/0x10
> [<ffffffff8116ed60>] ? ext4_calculate_overhead+0x3a0/0x3a0
> [<ffffffff8116a870>] ext4_mount+0x10/0x20
> [<ffffffff810ef96b>] mount_fs+0x1b/0xd0
> [<ffffffff81108fc1>] vfs_kern_mount+0x71/0x110
> [<ffffffff8110b096>] do_mount+0x386/0x980
> [<ffffffff810b7f43>] ? strndup_user+0x53/0x70
> [<ffffffff8110b71b>] sys_mount+0x8b/0xe0
> [<ffffffff816afcc8>] mount_block_root+0xfe/0x298
> [<ffffffff816afeb8>] mount_root+0x56/0x5a
> [<ffffffff816afff0>] prepare_namespace+0x134/0x16d
> [<ffffffff8147c9c6>] kernel_init+0x196/0x2a0
> [<ffffffff816af539>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
> [<ffffffff8147c830>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
> [<ffffffff81482a7c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [<ffffffff8147c830>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
> ---[ end trace 425942f4f0ed8d07 ]---
> EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 835709
> EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 835629
>
> Now we try to take i_mutex lock before orphan list cleanup, although we don't
> need to take it in ext4_orphan_cleanup() because no one write this inode.
> WARN_ON_ONCE doesn't be removed because this warning could help us to avoid some
> ciritcal errors.
You can add Ack-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
In fact this is my fault that we still not have autotest for that.
I'm think of add crash-test to xfstests which should trigger journal abort and forced
umount. Later test should mount FS which trigger journal_replay and orphan_cleanup.
>
> CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
> Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 3cdb0a2..188d6f1 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -2212,7 +2212,18 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
> __func__, inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
> jbd_debug(2, "truncating inode %lu to %lld bytes\n",
> inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
> + /*
> + * Actually we don't need to take i_mutex lock
> + * because in orphan list cleanup no one can write
> + * this inode. We take it here because in calling
> + * ext4_flush_unwritten_io() this lock needs to be
> + * taken, and we don't want to remove this
> + * WARN_ON_ONCE(). It is useful for us to avoid some
> + * critical errors.
> + */
> + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> ext4_truncate(inode);
> + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> nr_truncates++;
> } else {
> ext4_msg(sb, KERN_DEBUG,
> --
> 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e
>
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