linux-kernel - Re: possible lockdep regression introduced by 4d004099a668 ("lockdep: Fix lockdep recursion")

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Message-ID: <0c0d815c-bd5a-ff2d-1417-28a41173f2b4@suse.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:56:03 +0000
From:   Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Subject: Re: possible lockdep regression introduced by 4d004099a668 ("lockdep:
 Fix lockdep recursion")



On 26/10/20 11:40, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:26:49AM +0000, Filipe Manana wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've recently started to hit a warning followed by tasks hanging after
>> attempts to freeze a filesystem. A git bisection pointed to the
>> following commit:
>>
>> commit 4d004099a668c41522242aa146a38cc4eb59cb1e
>> Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
>> Date:   Fri Oct 2 11:04:21 2020 +0200
>>
>>     lockdep: Fix lockdep recursion
>>
>> This happens very reliably when running all xfstests with lockdep
>> enabled, and the tested filesystem is btrfs (haven't tried other
>> filesystems, but it shouldn't matter). The warning and task hangs always
>> happen at either test generic/068 or test generic/390, and (oddly)
>> always have to run all tests for it to trigger, running those tests
>> individually on an infinite loop doesn't seem to trigger it (at least
>> for a couple hours).
>>
>> The warning triggered is at fs/super.c:__sb_start_write() which always
>> results later in several tasks hanging on a percpu rw_sem:
>>
>> https://pastebin.com/qnLvf94E
>>
>> What happens is percpu_rwsem_is_held() is apparently returning a false
>> positive,
> 
> That smells like the same issue reported here:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201022111700.GZ2651@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
> 
> Make sure you have commit:
> 
>   f8e48a3dca06 ("lockdep: Fix preemption WARN for spurious IRQ-enable")
> 
> (in Linus' tree by now) and do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT enabled?

Yes, CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled.
I'll try with that commit and let you know, however it's gonna take a
few hours to build a kernel and run all fstests (on that test box it
takes over 3 hours) to confirm that fixes the issue.

Thanks for the quick reply!

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