Re: 6.5.0rc5 fs hang - ext4? raid?

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>]

* Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dave@treblig.org) wrote:
> * Jens Axboe (axboe@kernel.dk) wrote:
> > On 8/15/23 7:31 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > (Copying in Christoph and Jens)
> > > 
> > > * Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dave@treblig.org) wrote:
> > >> * Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dave@treblig.org) wrote:
> > >>> * Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:
> > >>>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 09:02:53PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > >>>>> dg         29594   29592  0 18:40 pts/0    00:00:00 /usr/bin/ar --plugin /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/13/liblto_plugin.so -csrDT src/intel/perf/libintel_perf.a src/intel/perf/libintel_perf.a.p/meson-generated_.._intel_perf_metrics.c.o src/intel/perf/libintel_perf.a.p/intel_perf.c.o src/intel/perf/libintel_perf.a.p/intel_perf_query.c.o src/intel/perf/libintel_perf.a.p/intel_perf_mdapi.c.o
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> [root@dalek dg]# cat /proc/29594/stack 
> > >>>>> [<0>] md_super_wait+0xa2/0xe0
> > >>>>> [<0>] md_bitmap_unplug+0xd2/0x120
> > >>>>> [<0>] flush_bio_list+0xf3/0x100 [raid1]
> > >>>>> [<0>] raid1_unplug+0x3b/0xb0 [raid1]
> > >>>>> [<0>] __blk_flush_plug+0xd7/0x150
> > >>>>> [<0>] blk_finish_plug+0x29/0x40
> > >>>>> [<0>] ext4_do_writepages+0x401/0xc90
> > >>>>> [<0>] ext4_writepages+0xad/0x180
> > >>>>
> > >>>> If you want a few seconds and try grabbing cat /proc/29594/stack
> > >>>> again, what does the stack trace stay consistent as above?
> > >>>
> > >>> I'll get back to that and retry it.
> > >>
> > >> Yeh, the stack is consistent; this time around it's an 'ar' in a kernel
> > >> build:
> > >>
> > >> [root@dalek dg]# cat /proc/17970/stack
> > >> [<0>] md_super_wait+0xa2/0xe0
> > >> [<0>] md_bitmap_unplug+0xad/0x120
> > >> [<0>] flush_bio_list+0xf3/0x100 [raid1]
> > >> [<0>] raid1_unplug+0x3b/0xb0 [raid1]
> > >> [<0>] __blk_flush_plug+0xd7/0x150
> > >> [<0>] blk_finish_plug+0x29/0x40
> > >> [<0>] ext4_do_writepages+0x401/0xc90
> > >> [<0>] ext4_writepages+0xad/0x180
> > >> [<0>] do_writepages+0xd2/0x1e0
> > >> [<0>] filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x63/0x90
> > >> [<0>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x5c/0x80
> > >> [<0>] ext4_release_file+0x74/0xb0
> > >> [<0>] __fput+0xf5/0x2a0
> > >> [<0>] task_work_run+0x5d/0x90
> > >> [<0>] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1e6/0x1f0
> > >> [<0>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1b/0x40
> > >> [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90
> > >> [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
> > >> [root@dalek dg]# cat /proc/17970/stack
> > >> [<0>] md_super_wait+0xa2/0xe0
> > >> [<0>] md_bitmap_unplug+0xad/0x120
> > >> [<0>] flush_bio_list+0xf3/0x100 [raid1]
> > >> [<0>] raid1_unplug+0x3b/0xb0 [raid1]
> > >> [<0>] __blk_flush_plug+0xd7/0x150
> > >> [<0>] blk_finish_plug+0x29/0x40
> > >> [<0>] ext4_do_writepages+0x401/0xc90
> > >> [<0>] ext4_writepages+0xad/0x180
> > >> [<0>] do_writepages+0xd2/0x1e0
> > >> [<0>] filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x63/0x90
> > >> [<0>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x5c/0x80
> > >> [<0>] ext4_release_file+0x74/0xb0
> > >> [<0>] __fput+0xf5/0x2a0
> > >> [<0>] task_work_run+0x5d/0x90
> > >> [<0>] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1e6/0x1f0
> > >> [<0>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1b/0x40
> > >> [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90
> > >> [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
> > >>
> > >>>> Also, if you have iostat installed (usually part of the sysstat
> > >>>> package), does "iostat 1" show any I/O activity on the md device?
> > >>
> > >> iostat is showing something odd, most devices are at 0,
> > >> except for 3 of the dm's that are stuck at 100% utilisation with
> > >> apparently nothing going on:
> > >>
> > >> avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
> > >>            0.06    0.00    0.03   53.06    0.00   46.84
> > >>
> > >> Device            r/s     rkB/s   rrqm/s  %rrqm r_await rareq-sz     w/s     wkB/s   wrqm/s  %wrqm w_await wareq-sz     d/s     dkB/s   drqm/s  %drqm d_await dareq-sz     f/s f_await  aqu-sz  %util
> > >> ...
> > >> dm-16            0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 100.00
> > >> dm-17            0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 100.00
> > >> dm-18            0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
> > >> dm-19            0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
> > >> dm-2             0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
> > >> dm-20            0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00      0.00     0.00   0.00    0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 100.00
> > >> ....
> > >>
> > >> dm-20 is the /dev/mapper/main-more which is the RAID on which the
> > >> fs runs, 16 and 17 are main-more_rmeta_0 and main-more_rimage_0
> > >> so something screwy is going on there.
> > > 
> > > I've just finished a bisect of this hang, and got to:
> > > 
> > > 615939a2ae734e3e68c816d6749d1f5f79c62ab7 is the first bad commit
> > > commit 615939a2ae734e3e68c816d6749d1f5f79c62ab7
> > > Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > > Date:   Fri May 19 06:40:48 2023 +0200
> > > 
> > >     blk-mq: defer to the normal submission path for post-flush requests
> > > 
> > >     Requests with the FUA bit on hardware without FUA support need a post
> > >     flush before returning to the caller, but they can still be sent using
> > >     the normal I/O path after initializing the flush-related fields and
> > >     end I/O handler.
> > > 
> > >     Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > >     Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> > >     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519044050.107790-6-hch@lst.de
> > >     Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> > 
> > Can you try and pull in:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux/commit/?h=block-6.5&id=5ff3213a5387e076af2b87f796f94b36965e8c3a
> > 
> > and see if that helps?
> 
> <testing....>

Yes it seems to fix it - thanks!

Dave

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