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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	john.cooper@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, hch@infradead.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] virtio-blk serial attribute causes guest to hang [Was: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm]
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:43:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100909194300.GA16908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100909191555.GA14486@redhat.com>

On Thu, Sep 09 2010 at  3:15pm -0400,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09 2010 at  2:35pm -0400,
> Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > * Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> [2010-09-09 12:56]:
> 
> > > I have verified that I no longer get the hang if I switch the root
> > > device from virtio to ide.
> > 
> > And in the failing case, do you see:
> > 
> > /sys/block/vda/serial 
> > 
> > attribute in sysfs?

Interestingly, just this loop:

while true ; do cat /sys/block/vda/serial && date && sleep 1 ; done
Thu Sep  9 15:29:30 EDT 2010
...
Thu Sep  9 15:31:19 EDT 2010

caused the following hang:
INFO: task cat:1825 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
cat           D 000000010000e784  5664  1825   1467 0x00000080
 ffff88007bbcdce8 0000000000000046 ffff88007bbcdc88 ffff880000000000
 ffff88007bbcdfd8 ffff88007b42a400 00000000001d4040 ffff88007bbcdfd8
 00000000001d4040 00000000001d4040 00000000001d4040 00000000001d4040
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8136de23>] io_schedule+0x73/0xb5
 [<ffffffff811b6882>] get_request_wait+0xf2/0x180
 [<ffffffff8105d8da>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39
 [<ffffffff811b6951>] blk_get_request+0x41/0x71
 [<ffffffff811b69ad>] blk_make_request+0x2c/0x8b
 [<ffffffffa0016073>] virtblk_get_id+0x57/0x93 [virtio_blk]
 [<ffffffffa00160d0>] virtblk_serial_show+0x21/0x4d [virtio_blk]
 [<ffffffff81265f7c>] dev_attr_show+0x27/0x4e
 [<ffffffff81157f0b>] ? sysfs_read_file+0x94/0x17f
 [<ffffffff810c6d6b>] ? __get_free_pages+0x18/0x55
 [<ffffffff81157f34>] sysfs_read_file+0xbd/0x17f
 [<ffffffff81100e7a>] vfs_read+0xab/0x108
 [<ffffffff8106e428>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x11d/0x141
 [<ffffffff81100f97>] sys_read+0x4a/0x6e
 [<ffffffff81002bf2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
2 locks held by cat/1825:
 #0:  (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81157eaf>] sysfs_read_file+0x38/0x17f
 #1:  (s_active#14){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81157f0b>] sysfs_read_file+0x94/0x17f

So it seems like the virtio requests aren't being properly cleaned up?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-09 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1283162296-13650-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-08-30  9:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] block: make __blk_rq_prep_clone() copy most command flags Tejun Heo
2010-08-30  9:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:43   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:50     ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 13:54       ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:56         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30  9:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] dm: relax ordering of bio-based flush implementation Tejun Heo
2010-08-30  9:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Tejun Heo
2010-08-30  9:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag Tejun Heo
     [not found] ` <1283162296-13650-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 13:28   ` [PATCH 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Mike Snitzer
     [not found]   ` <20100830132836.GB5283@redhat.com>
2010-08-30 13:59     ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]     ` <4C7BB932.1070405@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 15:07       ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:42       ` [PATCH] block: initialize flush request with WRITE_FLUSH instead of REQ_FLUSH Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 15:45       ` [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm Tejun Heo
     [not found]       ` <4C7BC942.7070703@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 19:08         ` [PATCH " Mike Snitzer
     [not found]         ` <20100830190835.GA8458@redhat.com>
2010-08-30 21:28           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-31 10:29             ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-31 13:02               ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-31 13:14                 ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]       ` <4C7BD202.4040700@kernel.org>
2010-08-30 19:18         ` [PATCH UPDATED " Mike Snitzer
     [not found]         ` <20100830194731.GA10702@redhat.com>
2010-09-01 10:31           ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 11:20             ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 12:12               ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 12:42                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-01 12:54                   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 15:20                 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 15:35                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-09-01 17:07                     ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 18:59                       ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-02  3:22                         ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-02 10:24                           ` Tejun Heo
2010-09-02 15:11                             ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 15:26                           ` [REGRESSION][BISECTED] virtio-blk serial attribute causes guest to hang [Was: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm] Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 15:44                             ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 15:57                               ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 16:03                                 ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 17:55                                   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 18:35                                     ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 19:15                                       ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 19:43                                         ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2010-09-09 20:14                                           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 20:30                                             ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-09 21:00                                               ` [PATCH] virtio-blk: put request that was created to retrieve the device id Mike Snitzer
2010-09-09 21:15                                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 14:58                                                   ` Ryan Harper
2010-09-21 21:00                                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-08 16:06                                                       ` [2.6.36 REGRESSION] " Mike Snitzer
2010-10-09  1:41                                                 ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
     [not found] ` <1283162296-13650-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-09-01 13:51   ` [PATCH 3/5] dm: relax ordering of bio-based flush implementation Mike Snitzer
2010-09-01 13:56     ` Tejun Heo

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