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Message-Id: <20170630001855.GL2393@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:18:55 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
pprakash@...eaurora.org, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Richard Cochran <rcochran@...utronix.de>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Deadlock due due to interactions of block, RCU, and cpu
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:29:12AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> On 6/27/2017 6:11 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 04:32:09PM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> >>On 6/22/2017 9:34 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>>On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:18:53AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>>>No worries, and I am very much looking forward to seeing the results of
> >>>>your testing.
> >>>
> >>>And please see below for an updated patch based on LKML review and
> >>>more intensive testing.
> >>>
> >>
> >>I spent some time on this today. It didn't go as I expected. I
> >>validated the issue is reproducible as before on 4.11 and 4.12 rcs 1
> >>through 4. However, the version of stress-ng that I was using ran
> >>into constant errors starting with rc5, making it nearly impossible
> >>to make progress toward reproduction. Upgrading stress-ng to tip
> >>fixes the issue, however, I've still been unable to repro the issue.
> >>
> >>Its my unfounded suspicion that something went in between rc4 and
> >>rc5 which changed the timing, and didn't actually fix the issue. I
> >>will run the test overnight for 5 hours to try to repro.
> >>
> >>The patch you sent appears to be based on linux-next, and appears to
> >>have a number of dependencies which prevent it from cleanly applying
> >>on anything current that I'm able to repro on at this time. Do you
> >>want to provide a rebased version of the patch which applies to say
> >>4.11? I could easily test that and report back.
> >
> >Here is a very lightly tested backport to v4.11.
> >
>
> Works for me. Always reproduced the lockup within 2 minutes on stock
> 4.11. With the change applied, I was able to test for 2 hours in
> the same conditions, and 4 hours with the full system and not
> encounter an issue.
>
> Feel free to add:
> Tested-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>
Applied, thank you!
> I'm going to go back to 4.12-rc5 and see if I can get either repro
> the issue, or identify what changed. Hopefully I can get to
> linux-next and double check the original version of the change as
> well.
Looking forward to hearing what you find!
Thanx, Paul
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