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SubjectXFS related hang (was Re: How to send a break? - dump from frozen 64bit linux)
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:20:31PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Added all those listed in the MAINTAINERS file for XFS.

Thanks Steve.

> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:03 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 May 2006 12:22:01 +0200, Janos Haar said:
> > Half the processes on the box seem wedged at that same mutex_lock. I can't
> > seem to find an xfs_qm_shake in my source tree though.

Its in fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm.c.

> kswapd0 D ffff81011fe03c38 0 297 1 1287 19 (L-TLB)
> ffff81011fe03c38 0000000000000004 000000000000000a ffff81011f92ba68
> ffff81011f92b850 ffffffff805a23a0 0000149f99fa7d7c 000000000003bcde
> 000000002f2c46e0 ffff81008bc37180
> Call Trace: <ffffffff804e5522>{schedule_timeout+34}
> <ffffffff80269f87>{xfs_qm_dqunpin_wait+220} <ffffffff80140e74>{debug_mutex_free_waiter+141}

So, we're waiting here on a synchronisation variable that'll
be released once the dquot metadata buffer write completes.

> So it is now waiting to be woken up by something that calls:
>
> xfs_qm_dquot_logitem_unpin which seems to be the function to wake it
> up.

Mhmm, that'd be called by the I/O completion handler on the buffer
containing that dquot.

> And decyphering all the macro crap it seems that the function that wakes
> it up is xfs_trans_chunk_committed, or xfs_trans_uncommit.

Right (the former, at this point in the code).

> The above xfs_qm_dqunpin_wait still looks awfully racy, and the
> xfs_log_force, which I'm assuming wakes up whoever is suppose to wake up
> kswapd0, doesn't have a return code check. So if it failed to do

The logforce isn't race-critical here - its ensuring writeout
of previously logged buffers is started before we go to sleep
waiting for the driver to wake us up when its done.

An earlier I/O error on the journal is the only thing the log
force can return as an error there, which isnt useful at that
point anyway (we're in a kernel thread trying to free mem).

> whatever the hell it's doing (that code gives me a headache), it looks

Heh, likewise. I have voodoo dolls of one or two of the early
XFS folks that I like to poke with needles occasionally.. :)

> like this guy might sleep forever holding a lock that will prevent
> others from freeing kernel memory.

It will sleep until the previously initiated buffer write is done.
AFAICT, we aren't seeing the I/O completion here for some reason...
which points more to a possible device driver or h/ware issue (that
is the usual root cause of this sort of hang, anyway).

cheers.

--
Nathan
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