linux-kernel - Re: 3.4.4-rt13: btrfs + xfstests 006 = BOOM.. and a bonus rt_mutex deadlock report for absolutely free!

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:26:26 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
cc:	"linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: 3.4.4-rt13: btrfs + xfstests 006 = BOOM.. and a bonus rt_mutex
 deadlock report for absolutely free!

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 11:52 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 15:31 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 
> > > > Bingo, that makes it more likely that this is caused by copying w/o
> > > > initializing the lock and then freeing the original structure.
> > > > 
> > > > A quick check for memcpy finds that __btrfs_close_devices() does a
> > > > memcpy of btrfs_device structs w/o initializing the lock in the new
> > > > copy, but I have no idea whether that's the place we are looking for.
> > > 
> > > Thanks a bunch Thomas.  I doubt I would have ever figured out that lala
> > > land resulted from _copying_ a lock.  That's one I won't be forgetting
> > > any time soon.  Box not only survived a few thousand xfstests 006 runs,
> > > dbench seemed disinterested in deadlocking virgin 3.0-rt.
> > 
> > Cute. It think that the lock copying caused the deadlock problem as
> > the list pointed to the wrong place, so we might have ended up with
> > following down the wrong chain when walking the list as long as the
> > original struct was not freed. That beast is freed under RCU so there
> > could be a rcu read side critical section fiddling with the old lock
> > and cause utter confusion.
> 
> Virgin 3.0-rt appears to really be solid.  But then it doesn't have
> pesky rwlocks.

Ah. So 3.0 is not having those rwlock thingies. Bummer.
 
> > /me goes and writes a nastigram^W proper changelog
> > 
> > > btrfs still locks up in my enterprise kernel, so I suppose I had better
> > > plug your fix into 3.4-rt and see what happens, and go beat hell out of
> > > virgin 3.0-rt again to be sure box really really survives dbench.
> > 
> > A test against 3.4-rt sans enterprise mess might be nice as well.
> 
> Enterprise is 3.0-stable with um 555 btrfs patches (oh dear).
> 
> Virgin 3.4-rt and 3.2-rt deadlock gripe.  Enterprise doesn't gripe, but
> deadlocks, so I have another adventure in my future even if I figure out
> wth to do about rwlocks.

Hrmpf. /me goes to stare into fs/btrfs/ some more.
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