Re: DIO process stuck apparently due to dioread_nolock (3.0)

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

12.08.2011 17:07, Jan Kara wrote:
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>>>> [   76.982985] EXT4-fs (dm-1): Unaligned AIO/DIO on inode 3407879 by oracle; performance will be poor.
>>>> [ 1469.734114] SysRq : Show Blocked State
>>>> [ 1469.734157]   task                        PC stack   pid father
>>>> [ 1469.734473] oracle          D 0000000000000000     0  6146      1 0x00000000
>>>> [ 1469.734525]  ffff88103f604810 0000000000000082 ffff881000000000 ffff881079791040
>>>> [ 1469.734603]  ffff880432c19fd8 ffff880432c19fd8 ffff880432c19fd8 ffff88103f604810
>>>> [ 1469.734681]  ffffea000ec13590 ffffffff00000000 ffff881438c8dad8 ffffffff810eeda2
>>>> [ 1469.734760] Call Trace:
>>>> [ 1469.734800]  [<ffffffff810eeda2>] ? __do_fault+0x422/0x520
>>>> [ 1469.734863]  [<ffffffffa0123e6d>] ? ext4_file_write+0x20d/0x260 [ext4]
>>>> [ 1469.734909]  [<ffffffff8106aee0>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0
>>>> [ 1469.734956]  [<ffffffffa0123c60>] ? ext4_llseek+0x120/0x120 [ext4]
>>>> [ 1469.734999]  [<ffffffff81162173>] ? aio_rw_vect_retry+0x73/0x1d0
>>>> [ 1469.735039]  [<ffffffff8116302f>] ? aio_run_iocb+0x5f/0x160
>>>> [ 1469.735078]  [<ffffffff81164258>] ? do_io_submit+0x4f8/0x600
>>>> [ 1469.735122]  [<ffffffff81359b52>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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>   Probably not, just garbage on stack confuses the stack unwinder. Note
> that e.g. ext4_llseek() is at the end of function as well as
> abort_exclusive_wait() which probably means these functions have already
> finished and just left their addresses on stack. Could you disasseble
> your ext4_file_write() function and check where offset 0x20d is? Sadly you
> won't see where calls are going when ext4 is compiled as a module (module
> is linked when loaded into kernel) so it might be easier to compile ext4
> into the kernel and disassemble the function in vmlinux file.
> 
>> Btw, does ext4_llseek() look sane here?  Note it's called from
>> aio_submit() -- does it _ever_ implement SEEKs?
>>
>> Maybe some debugging is neecessary here?
>   Yes. The trouble is I'm not completely sure where we are hanging yet.
> We should know more from your disassembly. But you can try running with
> attached debug patch - maybe it shows something interesting.

With ext4 built-in and your patch applied:

[  429.061524] EXT4-fs (sda11): Unaligned AIO/DIO on inode 5767181 by oracle; performance will be poor.
[  429.061669] Going to wait for 18446744073709551199 aios
[  437.717942] SysRq : Show Blocked State
[  437.718109]   task                        PC stack   pid father
[  437.718528] oracle          D 0000000000000000     0  3844      1 0x00000000
[  437.718767]  ffff88203e330080 0000000000000082 0000000000000000 ffff881078e3f7d0
[  437.719156]  ffff88203dc15fd8 ffff88203dc15fd8 ffff88203dc15fd8 ffff88203e330080
[  437.719546]  0000001e0000000f 0000000000000246 205b88103f806680 3136302e39323420
[  437.719935] Call Trace:
[  437.720043]  [<ffffffff8139b976>] ? printk+0x43/0x48
[  437.720155]  [<ffffffff8118e16d>] ? ext4_file_write+0x21d/0x290
[  437.720267]  [<ffffffff8106aee0>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0
[  437.720376]  [<ffffffff8118df50>] ? ext4_llseek+0x120/0x120
[  437.720485]  [<ffffffff81162173>] ? aio_rw_vect_retry+0x73/0x1d0
[  437.720593]  [<ffffffff8116302f>] ? aio_run_iocb+0x5f/0x160
[  437.720699]  [<ffffffff81164258>] ? do_io_submit+0x4f8/0x600
[  437.720811]  [<ffffffff813a3152>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Trying to find how to disassemble things now...
And yes, 18446744073709551199 aios sounds quite alot ;)

Thanks,

/mjt