Message-ID: <ZKxVfsmH71ahAkXN@debian-BULLSEYE-live-builder-AMD64>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:01:18 -0400
From:   Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        tytso@....edu, ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: generic/269 failure on ext4 dev branch

* Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>:
> Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com> writes:
> >
> >> I've discovered that generic/269 will trigger a BUG_ON on line 5070 in
> >
> > Can you confirm in your tree what is line 5070 out of the two?
> >
> > BUG_ON(!S_ISREG(ac->ac_inode->i_mode));
> > BUG_ON(ac->ac_pa == NULL);
> >
> > [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tree/fs/ext4/mballoc.c?h=dev&id=ab8627e104696b8c1c6953ad5255def5b0821e06#n5070
> > [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/tree/fs/ext4/mballoc.c?h=dev#n5070
> >
> > Based on which tree you tested, it could differ I guess.
> >
> > I am assuming it is... 
> >   BUG_ON(!S_ISREG(ac->ac_inode->i_mode));
> >
> >> ext4_mb_new_inode_pa when running kvm-xfstests on the 1k test case
> >> with a kernel built from the current ext4 dev branch. After hitting the
> >> BUG_ON, the kernel then reports persistent soft lockups.  I mentioned this in
> >> today's concall, and Ted confirmed the current dev branch should reflect
> >> what's upstream at this time.
> >>
> >> This test reproduces for me 5 to 10% of the time, but reliably enough - I
> >> typically don't need more than 25 trials to see the failure, and 10 often
> >> suffices. (I haven't yet tried the 4k test case, but will do so.)
> >>
> >> The failure bisects to:
> >> 7e170922f06b ("ext4: Add allocation criteria 1.5 (CR1_5)")
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the bisection.
> >
> >> Trace follows.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >>
> >> generic/269 24s ...  [21:41:11][  284.208474] run fstests generic/269 at 2023-07-03 21:41:11
> >> [  284.511484] EXT4-fs (vdc): mounted filesystem 2b1fbdd6-2724-47bc-b7b5-f4a73c9f19be r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
> >> [  284.950657] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >> [  284.950901] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5070!
> >> [  284.951104] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> >> [  284.951296] CPU: 0 PID: 12039 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5+ #6
> >> [  284.951567] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
> >> [  284.951900] RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
> >> [  284.952124] Code: b5 7e 0f 85 b5 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 e9 ab fe ff ff e8 9d 56 d3 ff 84 c0 0f 85 b5 fe ff ff 0f 0b e9 ae fe ff ff 0f 0b 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 4c 89 c1 31 c0 e9 42 ff ff ff 0f 1f 84 00
> >> [  284.952891] RSP: 0018:ffffc90004053970 EFLAGS: 00010a87
> >> [  284.953124] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff8880342d0720 RCX: 0000000000000001
> >> [  284.953420] RDX: 0000000000004000 RSI: 00001e4000000000 RDI: ffff8880342d0720
> >> [  284.953720] RBP: ffffc90004053a00 R08: ffff88800a5fc000 R09: 0000000000000000
> >> [  284.954020] R10: ffff888007964a98 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000003
> >> [  284.954321] R13: ffff8880342d0720 R14: ffff88800a5fc000 R15: ffff88800abfc000
> >> [  284.954610] FS:  00007f3d9db07740(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> >> [  284.954923] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> >> [  284.955148] CR2: 000055b54ce0fde8 CR3: 0000000006730006 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
> >> [  284.955443] PKRU: 55555554
> >> [  284.955559] Call Trace:
> >> [  284.955669]  <TASK>
> >> [  284.955760]  ? die+0x33/0x90
> >> [  284.955887]  ? do_trap+0xe0/0x110
> >> [  284.956031]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
> >> [  284.956223]  ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80
> >> [  284.956385]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
> >> [  284.956575]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x4b/0x70
> >> [  284.956738]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
> >> [  284.956929]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
> >> [  284.957112]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
> >> [  284.957305]  ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x2e0/0x3e0
> >> [  284.957512]  ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x3be/0xd80
> >> [  284.957716]  ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9dc/0x1040
> >> [  284.957895]  ? __kmalloc+0xca/0x150
> >> [  284.958038]  ? ext4_find_extent+0x3ec/0x450
> >> [  284.958204]  ? _raw_write_unlock+0x29/0x50
> >> [  284.958369]  ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x9a4/0x19d0
> >> [  284.958543]  ? __kmem_cache_free+0x17d/0x2e0
> >> [  284.958723]  ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80
> >> [  284.958889]  ext4_map_blocks+0x230/0x5d0
> >> [  284.959056]  ? lock_release+0x139/0x280
> >> [  284.959222]  ext4_getblk+0x7b/0x2d0
> >> [  284.959369]  ext4_bread+0xc/0x70
> >> [  284.959510]  ext4_append+0x8d/0x190
> >> [  284.959665]  ext4_init_new_dir+0xd5/0x1b0
> >> [  284.959835]  ext4_mkdir+0x192/0x340
> >
> > hmm.. looks like a allocation request for a directory inode.
> >
> >> [  284.959987]  vfs_mkdir+0x98/0x140
> >> [  284.960133]  do_mkdirat+0x131/0x160
> >> [  284.960285]  __x64_sys_mkdir+0x48/0x70
> >> [  284.960445]  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
> >> [  284.960600]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
> >> [  284.960814] RIP: 0033:0x7f3d9dbf8b07
> >> [  284.960967] Code: 1f 40 00 48 8b 05 89 f3 0c 00 64 c7 00 5f 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 b8 53 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 59 f3 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
> >> [  284.961741] RSP: 002b:00007ffcd5131098 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000053
> >> [  284.962075] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcd5131200 RCX: 00007f3d9dbf8b07
> >> [  284.962363] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000001ff RDI: 000055b54cdac240
> >> [  284.962647] RBP: 00000000000001ff R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003
> >> [  284.962928] R10: 00007ffcd5130d16 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00000000000000cb
> >> [  284.963209] R13: 8f5c28f5c28f5c29 R14: 000055b54c8ec660 R15: 00000000000000cb
> >> [  284.963492]  </TASK>
> >> [  284.963586] Modules linked in:
> >> [  284.963730] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> >
> >
> > @Ojaswin,
> >
> > I was looking at the code. In function ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail(),
> > we use fls() on goal len to calculate "order". But we never subtract 1
> > from it. Then we set the goal len based on this "order". This might make
> > ac_g_ex.fe_len > ac_o_ex.fe_len in some cases where we really don't want
> > that (like the current case).
> > You have added some comments there, so I was not sure if that was
> > intentional. 
> >
> > Now, IIUC, the overall concept of cr_1.5 is to trim the max len order
> > from goal len to something which is still larger than original length. 
> > But this is only valid for regular files allocation request. Because we don't
> > normalize the request length for non-regular files. See
> > ext4_mb_normalize_request() function. As I also see from the current
> > bug_on, the request was for dir inode I guess.
> >
> > Although, I still think we should check the function logic in
> > ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail(), but either ways I guess we don't
> > want to use CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN criteria for non-regular files right,
> > given we anyways don't normalize the allocation request len for such files.
> >
> > In that case do you think below diff make sense?
> >
> >
> > mballoc: Don't use CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN for non-regular files
> >
> > Using CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN only make sense for regular files, as for
> > non-regular files we never normalize the allocation request length i.e.
> > goal len is same as original length (ac_g_ex.fe_len == ac_o_ex.fe_len).
> >
> > Hence there is no scope of trimming the goal length such that it can
> > still satisfy original request len. Thus this patch avoids using
> > CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN criteria for non-regular files request.
> >
> > ---
> >  fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > index a2475b8c9fb5..5fbbd7344456 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
> > @@ -974,7 +974,19 @@ static void ext4_mb_choose_next_group_goal_fast(struct ext4_allocation_context *
> >                 *group = grp->bb_group;
> >                 ac->ac_flags |= EXT4_MB_CR_GOAL_LEN_FAST_OPTIMIZED;
> >         } else {
> > -               *new_cr = CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN;
> > +               /*
> > +                * CR_BEST_AVAIL_LEN works based on the concept that we have
> > +                * a larger normalized goal len request which can be trimmed to
> > +                * a smaller goal len such that it can still satisfy original
> > +                * request len. However, allocation request for non-regular
> > +                * files never gets normalized.
> > +                * See function ext4_mb_normalize_request() (EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA).
> > +                */
> > +               if ((ac->ac_criteria & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA))
> 
> my bad. It should be 
>                   if ((ac->ac_flags & EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA))
> 
> -ritesh


Ritesh:

An update: the generic/269 failure on 1k is easily reproducible on 6.5-rc1.
The BUG_ON on line 5069 in mballoc.c is now triggering for me, rather than 5070:
BUG_ON(!S_ISREG(ac->ac_inode->i_mode));

Representative trace follows - operation at top of trace varies run to run.

Eric

generic/269 25s ...  [18:07:16][   54.255436] run fstests generic/269 at 2023-06
[   54.508385] EXT4-fs (vdc): mounted filesystem a986a0fa-5c36-4e16-bad9-2d53b8.
[   57.914332] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   57.914534] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5069!
[   57.914863] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[   57.915156] CPU: 1 PID: 4157 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1 #1
[   57.915531] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-4
[   57.916033] RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
[   57.916354] Code: b5 7e 0f 85 b5 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 e9 ab fe ff ff e8 70
[   57.917473] RSP: 0018:ffffc900057f39f0 EFLAGS: 00010206
[   57.917799] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff888017b70d10 RCX: 0000000000000001
[   57.918233] RDX: 000000000000a000 RSI: 00000b1c00000000 RDI: ffff888017b70d10
[   57.918667] RBP: ffffc900057f3a80 R08: ffff88800672f000 R09: ffff888009ac65a0
[   57.919100] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000000068
[   57.919534] R13: ffff888017b70d10 R14: ffff88800672f000 R15: ffff888007b02000
[   57.919971] FS:  00007f03368b6740(0000) GS:ffff88807dd00000(0000) knlGS:00000
[   57.920461] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   57.920789] CR2: 000055fe23769d78 CR3: 000000000787e005 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[   57.921113] PKRU: 55555554
[   57.921213] Call Trace:
[   57.921327]  <TASK>
[   57.921443]  ? die+0x33/0x90
[   57.921611]  ? do_trap+0xe0/0x110
[   57.921807]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
[   57.922023]  ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80
[   57.922174]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
[   57.922354]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x4b/0x70
[   57.922510]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
[   57.922693]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
[   57.922859]  ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0
[   57.923039]  ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x2e0/0x3e0
[   57.923232]  ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x3be/0xd80
[   57.923425]  ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9dc/0x1040
[   57.923592]  ? __kmalloc+0xca/0x150
[   57.923732]  ? ext4_find_extent+0x3ec/0x450
[   57.923896]  ? __kmem_cache_free+0x191/0x310
[   57.924064]  ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40
[   57.924218]  ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x981/0x19c0
[   57.924393]  ? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x4b/0x6a0
[   57.924601]  ? __lock_acquire.constprop.0+0x4b/0x6a0
[   57.924871]  ext4_map_blocks+0x22a/0x5b0
[   57.925079]  ext4_getblk+0x7b/0x2d0
[   57.925260]  ext4_bread+0xc/0x70
[   57.925392]  ext4_symlink+0x12b/0x3c0
[   57.925610]  vfs_symlink+0x18c/0x230
[   57.925839]  do_symlinkat+0x11c/0x130
[   57.926071]  __x64_sys_symlink+0x38/0x50
[   57.926318]  do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[   57.926544]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[   57.926866] RIP: 0033:0x7f03369a9a97
[   57.927093] Code: f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d f6 d3 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 88
[   57.928176] RSP: 002b:00007ffdf02ee128 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000008
[   57.928574] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffdf02ee290 RCX: 00007f03369a9a97
[   57.928879] RDX: 0000000000000064 RSI: 000055fe23514410 RDI: 000055fe23542d10
[   57.929161] RBP: 000055fe23514410 R08: 000055fe23542d10 R09: 0000000000000003
[   57.929446] R10: 00007ffdf02edda6 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000170
[   57.929722] R13: 000055fe23542d10 R14: 00007ffdf02ee290 R15: 000055fe23542d10
[   57.930029]  </TASK>
[   57.930126] Modules linked in:
[   57.930274] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

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