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Message-ID: <20130626232426.GA29034@dastard>
Date:	Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:24:26 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: slab shrinkers: BUG at mm/list_lru.c:92

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:15:09AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 25-06-13 12:27:54, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:50:25PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > And again, another hang. It looks like the inode deletion never
> > > finishes. The good thing is that I do not see any LRU related BUG_ONs
> > > anymore. I am going to test with the other patch in the thread.
> > > 
> > > 2476 [<ffffffff8118325e>] __wait_on_freeing_inode+0x9e/0xc0	<<< waiting for an inode to go away
> > > [<ffffffff81183321>] find_inode_fast+0xa1/0xc0
> > > [<ffffffff8118525f>] iget_locked+0x4f/0x180
> > > [<ffffffff811ef9e3>] ext4_iget+0x33/0x9f0
> > > [<ffffffff811f6a1c>] ext4_lookup+0xbc/0x160
> > > [<ffffffff81174ad0>] lookup_real+0x20/0x60
> > > [<ffffffff81177e25>] lookup_open+0x175/0x1d0
> > > [<ffffffff8117815e>] do_last+0x2de/0x780			<<< holds i_mutex
> > > [<ffffffff8117ae9a>] path_openat+0xda/0x400
> > > [<ffffffff8117b303>] do_filp_open+0x43/0xa0
> > > [<ffffffff81168ee0>] do_sys_open+0x160/0x1e0
> > > [<ffffffff81168f9c>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20
> > > [<ffffffff81582fe9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > > [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> > 
> > I don't think this has anything to do with LRUs.
> 
> I am not claiming that. It might be a timing issue which never mattered
> but it is strange I can reproduce this so easily and repeatedly with the
> shrinkers patchset applied.
> As I said earlier, this might be breakage in my -mm tree as well
> (missing some patch which didn't go via Andrew or misapplied patch). The
> situation is worsen by the state of linux-next which has some unrelated
> issues.
> 
> I really do not want to delay the whole patchset just because of some
> problem on my side. Do you have any tree that I should try to test?

No, I've just been testing Glauber's tree and sending patches for
problems back to him based on it.

> > I won't have seen this on XFS stress testing, because it doesn't use
> > the VFS inode hashes for inode lookups. Given that XFS is not
> > triggering either problem you are seeing, that makes me think
> 
> I haven't tested with xfs.

That might be worthwhile if you can easily do that - another data
point indicating a hang or absence of a hang will help point us in
the right direction here...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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