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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:33:22 -0500
From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To: Christian Theune <ct@...ingcircus.io>
Cc: linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, jlayton@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        trondmy@...merspace.com, anna@...nel.org
Subject: Re: nfs4_schedule_state_manager stuck in tight loop

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 02:59:49PM +0100, Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> unfortunately I’m a bit light on details, but willing to provide better diagnostics as this moves along.
> 
> We’ve had two instances of NFS clients getting stuck with a kernel thread spinning around `nfs4_schedule_state_manager` AFAICT:
> 
> The first instance of this was last September on a Qemu VM running a 6.1.45 guest:
> 
> root 315344 44.5 0.0 0 0 ? D Sep05 781:38 \_ [172.22.56.83-manager]
> 
> It happened a second time in last December on another VM that was likely running 5.15.139. (We downgraded our fleet due to other stability issues from 6.1 to 5.15 in between those two incidents.)
> 
> My colleagues told me that no issues were visible in the logs at that time, the systems were generally usable but interacting with anything on NFS was (obviously) stuck. So apparently no (soft-) lock ups and no stalls were recorded, but I’ll ask my colleagues to either alert me or provide all of the logging they can get the next time this happens.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> PS: I’ve also recorded this in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217877 but switching to mail-based workflow now.

nfs4_schedule_state_manager() is part of the Linux NFS client, so
Cc'ing the client maintainers.

-- 
Chuck Lever

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