From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com ([67.231.145.42]:46895 "EHLO mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933707AbcJMCqV (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:46:21 -0400 Subject: Re: Test generic/299 stalling forever References: <20150618155337.GA10439@thunk.org> <20150618233430.GK20262@dastard> <20160929043722.ypf3tnxsl6ovt653@thunk.org> <20161012211407.GL23194@dastard> <20161013021552.l6afs2k5tjcsfp2k@thunk.org> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:39:57 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161013021552.l6afs2k5tjcsfp2k@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fstests-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Dave Chinner , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org, tarasov@vasily.name List-ID: On 10/12/2016 08:15 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:19:25PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> >> FWIW, this is the commit that fixes it: >> >> commit 39d13e67ef1f4b327c68431f8daf033a03920117 >> Author: Jens Axboe >> Date: Fri Aug 26 14:39:30 2016 -0600 >> >> backend: check if we need to update rusage stats, if stat_mutex is busy >> >> 2.14 and newer should not have the problem, but earlier versions may >> depending on how old... > > Unfortunately, I'm still seeing hangs in generic/299 with the latest version of fio: > > fio fio-2.14-10-g0a301e9 (Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:57:00 -0600) Well, that's no good. > If I use an older fio, it reliably does not hang. What can I do to > help debug this? If I just wanted to invoke generic/299 with a setup similar to yours, what should I do? I can attempt to reproduce it. > As I said, I can attach to the hanging fio using a gdb and give you > stackdumps for all of the threads if that would be helpful. That would definitely be helpful as well, especially if I cannot reproduce it. -- Jens Axboe