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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:27:24 +1000
From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
Zorro Lang <zlang@...hat.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [6.5-rc5 regression] core dump hangs (was Re: [Bug report]
fstests generic/051 (on xfs) hang on latest linux v6.5-rc5+)
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 03:45:12AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 10:49 PM Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 10:34:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> >
> >> > So that "!=" should obviously have been a "==".
> >>
> >> Same as without the condition - all the fsstress tasks hang in
> >> do_coredump().
> >
> > Ok, that at least makes sense. Your "it made things worse" made me go
> > "What?" until I noticed the stupid backwards test.
> >
> > I'm not seeing anything else that looks odd in that commit
> > f9010dbdce91 ("fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps
> > regression").
> >
> > Let's see if somebody else goes "Ahh" when they wake up tomorrow...
....
> About the only thing I can image is if io_uring is involved. Some of
> the PF_IO_WORKER code was changed, and the test
> "((t->flags & (PF_USER_WORKER | PF_IO_WORKER)) != PF_USER_WORKER)"
> was sprinkled around.
>
> That is the only code outside of vhost specific code that was changed.
>
>
> Is io_uring involved in the cases that hang?
Yes. fsstress randomly uses io_uring for the ops that it runs.
-Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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