linux-kernel - Re: [Virtio-fs] Unbreakable loop in fuse_fill_write_pages()

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Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:26:21 +0100
From:   "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@...hat.com>
Cc:     Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtio-fs@...hat.com,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Virtio-fs] Unbreakable loop in fuse_fill_write_pages()

* Qian Cai (cai@...hat.com) wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 14:58 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 
> > I am wondering if virtiofsd still alive and responding to requests? I
> > see another task which is blocked on getdents() for more than 120s.
> > 
> > [10580.142571][  T348] INFO: task trinity-c36:254165 blocked for more than 123
> > +seconds.
> > [10580.143924][  T348]       Tainted: G           O	 5.9.0-next-20201013+ #2
> > [10580.145158][  T348] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
> > +disables this message.
> > [10580.146636][  T348] task:trinity-c36     state:D stack:26704 pid:254165
> > ppid:
> > +87180 flags:0x00000004
> > [10580.148260][  T348] Call Trace:
> > [10580.148789][  T348]  __schedule+0x71d/0x1b50
> > [10580.149532][  T348]  ? __sched_text_start+0x8/0x8
> > [10580.150343][  T348]  schedule+0xbf/0x270
> > [10580.151044][  T348]  schedule_preempt_disabled+0xc/0x20
> > [10580.152006][  T348]  __mutex_lock+0x9f1/0x1360
> > [10580.152777][  T348]  ? __fdget_pos+0x9c/0xb0
> > [10580.153484][  T348]  ? mutex_lock_io_nested+0x1240/0x1240
> > [10580.154432][  T348]  ? find_held_lock+0x33/0x1c0
> > [10580.155220][  T348]  ? __fdget_pos+0x9c/0xb0
> > [10580.155934][  T348]  __fdget_pos+0x9c/0xb0
> > [10580.156660][  T348]  __x64_sys_getdents+0xff/0x230
> > 
> > May be virtiofsd crashed and hence no requests are completing leading
> > to a hard lockup?
> Virtiofsd is still working. Once this happened, I manually create a file on the
> guest (in virtiofs) and then I can see the content of it from the host.

If the virtiofsd is still running, attach gdb to it and get a full bt;

gdb --pid  whatever

(gdb) t a a bt full

that should show if it's stuck in one particular place.

Dave

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