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From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>, Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>, <clm@fb.com>, <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: Lockups with btrfs on 3.16-rc1 - bisected
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:27:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A2125B.3050701@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A20FFF.3010807@hp.com>



On 06/18/2014 03:17 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 06/18/2014 04:57 PM, Marc Dionne wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been seeing very reproducible soft lockups with 3.16-rc1 similar
>> to what is reported here:
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://marc.info/?l%3Dlinux-btrfs%26m%3D140290088532203%26w%3D2&k=ZVNjlDMF0FElm4dQtryO4A%3D%3D%0A&r=cKCbChRKsMpTX8ybrSkonQ%3D%3D%0A&m=aoagvtZMwVb16gh1HApZZL00I7eP50GurBpuEo3l%2B5g%3D%0A&s=c62558feb60a480bbb52802093de8c97b5e1f23d4100265b6120c8065bd99565
>> , along with the
>> occasional hard lockup, making it impossible to complete a parallel
>> build on a btrfs filesystem for the package I work on.  This was
>> working fine just a few days before rc1.
>>
>> Bisecting brought me to the following commit:
>>
>>    commit bd01ec1a13f9a327950c8e3080096446c7804753
>>    Author: Waiman Long<Waiman.Long@hp.com>
>>    Date:   Mon Feb 3 13:18:57 2014 +0100
>>
>>        x86, locking/rwlocks: Enable qrwlocks on x86
>>
>> And sure enough if I revert that commit on top of current mainline,
>> I'm unable to reproduce the soft lockups and hangs.
>>
>> Marc
>
> The queue rwlock is fair. As a result, recursive read_lock is not
> allowed unless the task is in an interrupt context. Doing recursive
> read_lock will hang the process when a write_lock happens somewhere in
> between. Are recursive read_lock being done in the btrfs code?
>

We walk down a tree and read lock each node as we walk down, is that 
what you mean?  Or do you mean read_lock multiple times on the same lock 
in the same process, cause we definitely don't do that.  Thanks,

Josef

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-18 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-18 20:57 Lockups with btrfs on 3.16-rc1 - bisected Marc Dionne
2014-06-18 22:17 ` Waiman Long
2014-06-18 22:27   ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2014-06-18 22:47     ` Waiman Long
2014-06-18 23:10       ` Josef Bacik
2014-06-18 23:19         ` Waiman Long
2014-06-18 23:27           ` Chris Mason
2014-06-18 23:30             ` Waiman Long
2014-06-18 23:53               ` Chris Mason
2014-06-19  0:03                 ` Marc Dionne
2014-06-19  0:08                   ` Waiman Long
2014-06-19  0:41                     ` Marc Dionne
2014-06-19  2:03                       ` Marc Dionne
2014-06-19  2:11                         ` Chris Mason
2014-06-19  3:21                           ` Waiman Long
2014-06-19 16:51                             ` Chris Mason
2014-06-19 17:52                               ` Waiman Long
2014-06-19 20:10                                 ` Chris Mason
2014-06-19 21:50                                   ` Chris Mason
2014-06-19 23:21                                     ` Waiman Long
2014-06-20  3:20                                       ` Tsutomu Itoh
2014-06-21  1:09                                         ` Long, Wai Man
2014-06-19  9:49 ` btrfs-transacti:516 blocked 120 seconds on 3.16-rc1 Konstantinos Skarlatos

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