Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14735 at fs/dcache.c:365 dentry_free+0x100/0x128

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On 7/21/22 01:15, Sam James wrote:
>> On 20 Jul 2022, at 18:06, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 07:00:32PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
>>
>>> To help debug it, de-union d_in_lookup_hash with d_alias and add debug
>>> info after dentry is killed. If any warning hits, we know where to add
>>> something like
>>>
>>> 	WARN_ON(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED);
>>>
>>> before hlist_bl_add or hlist_add.
>
>> [snip]
>> I wonder if anyone had seen anything similar outside of parisc...

Me too.
Of course it could be caused by the platform code, as we have had
issues with caches, spinlocks and so on.
On older kernels we also have seen RCU stalls in d_alloc_parallel().

>> I don't know if I have any chance to reproduce it here - the only
>> parisc box I've got is a 715/100 (assuming the disk is still alive)
>> and it's 32bit, unlike the reported setups and, er, not fast.

It's fun to boot it, but it will be too slow for actual testing.

>> qemu seems to have some parisc support, but it's 32bit-only at the
>> moment...

Yes. I think it will be hard to reproduce it in the VM.

> I don't think I've seen this on parisc either, but I don't think
> I've used tmpfs that heavily. I'll try it in case it's somehow more
> likely to trigger it.

It happened on the debian buildd server with tmpfs. To rule out tmpfs
I switched to ext4 (on SATA SSD) and it happened there as well.
I assume Dave's report is on ext3/ext4 with SCSI discs.

> Helge, were there any particular steps to reproduce this? Or just
> start doing your normal Debian builds on a tmpfs and it happens
> soon enough?

Currently it's not easy to reproduce for me either.
It happens on the debian buildd server (4-way c8000 machine) while building
the webkit2gtk package. I think it happens at the end when sbuild
cleans the build directories by deleting all files.
Maybe there is a filesystem test toolkit which you could try which hammers
the fs by deleting lots of files in parallel?

Helge