Re: panic on 4.20 server exporting xfs filesystem

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 03:47:49PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 12:02:17PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 10:01:38AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:17:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:08:49PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > > Ah-hah:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	static void
> > > > > 	nfsd4_cb_layout_fail(struct nfs4_layout_stateid *ls)
> > > > > 	{
> > > > > 		...
> > > > > 		nfsd4_cb_layout_fail(ls);
> > > > > 
> > > > > That'd do it!
> > > > > 
> > > > > Haven't tried to figure out why exactly that's getting called, and why
> > > > > only rarely.  Some intermittent problem with the callback path, I guess.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyway, I think that solves most of the mystery....
> > > > 
> > > > Ooops, that was a nasty git merge error in the last rebase, see the fix
> > > > below.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > 
> > And with that fix things look good.
> > 
> > I'm still curious why the callbacks are failling.  It's also logging
> > "nfsd: client 192.168.122.32 failed to respond to layout recall".
> 
> I spoke too soon, I'm still not getting through my usual test run--the most
> recent run is hanging in generic/247 with the following in the server logs.
> 
> But I probably still won't get a chance to look at this any closer till after
> vault.
> 
> --b.
> 
> nfsd: client 192.168.122.32 failed to respond to layout recall.   Fencing..
> nfsd: fence failed for client 192.168.122.32: -2!
> nfsd: client 192.168.122.32 failed to respond to layout recall.   Fencing..
> nfsd: fence failed for client 192.168.122.32: -2!
> receive_cb_reply: Got unrecognized reply: calldir 0x1 xpt_bc_xprt ffff88005639a000 xid c21abd62
> kswapd0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x120

[snip network driver memory allocation failure]

> active_anon:7053 inactive_anon:2435 isolated_anon:0
>  active_file:88743 inactive_file:89505 isolated_file:32
>  unevictable:0 dirty:9786 writeback:0 unstable:0
>  free:3571 slab_reclaimable:227807 slab_unreclaimable:75772
>  mapped:21010 shmem:380 pagetables:1567 bounce:0
>  free_cma:0

Looks like there should be heaps of reclaimable memory...

> nfsd: client 192.168.122.32 failed to respond to layout recall.   Fencing..

So there's a layout recall pending...

> nfsd: fence failed for client 192.168.122.32: -2!
> receive_cb_reply: Got unrecognized reply: calldir 0x1 xpt_bc_xprt ffff880051dfc000 xid 8ff02aaf
> INFO: task nfsd:17653 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>       Not tainted 4.0.0-rc2-09922-g26cbcc7 #89
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> nfsd            D ffff8800753a7848 11720 17653      2 0x00000000
>  ffff8800753a7848 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 ffffffff82210580
>  ffff88004e9bcb50 0000000000000006 ffffffff8119d9f0 ffff8800753a7848
>  ffff8800753a7fd8 ffff88002e5e3d70 0000000000000246 ffff88004e9bcb50
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8119d9f0>] ? new_sync_read+0xb0/0xb0
>  [<ffffffff8119d9f0>] ? new_sync_read+0xb0/0xb0
>  [<ffffffff81a95737>] schedule+0x37/0x90
>  [<ffffffff81a95ac8>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x30
>  [<ffffffff81a97756>] mutex_lock_nested+0x156/0x400
>  [<ffffffff813a0d5a>] ? xfs_file_buffered_aio_write.isra.9+0x6a/0x2a0
>  [<ffffffff8119d9f0>] ? new_sync_read+0xb0/0xb0
>  [<ffffffff813a0d5a>] xfs_file_buffered_aio_write.isra.9+0x6a/0x2a0
>  [<ffffffff8119d9f0>] ? new_sync_read+0xb0/0xb0
>  [<ffffffff813a1016>] xfs_file_write_iter+0x86/0x130
>  [<ffffffff8119db05>] do_iter_readv_writev+0x65/0xa0

and the nfsd got hung up on the inode mutex during  a write.

Which means there's some other process blocked holding the i_mutex.
sysrq-w and sysrq-t is probably going to tell us more here.

I suspect we'll have another write stuck in break_layout().....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com