Re: [PATCH] Revert "xfs: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xfsaild kthread"

Michal Hocko
2016-01-20T08:48:01Z

On Wed 13-01-16 16:12:48, Dave Chinner wrote:
> This reverts commit 24ba16bb3d499c49974669cd8429c3e4138ab102 as it
> prevents machines from suspending. This regression occurs when the
> xfsaild is idle on entry to suspend, and so there s no activity to
> wake it from it's idle sleep and hence see that it is supposed to
> freeze. Hence the freezer times out waiting for it and suspend is
> cancelled.
>
> There is no obvious fix for this short of freezing the filesystem
> properly, so revert this change for now.

We had a similar report opensuse bugzilla just recently. I believe the
proper fix should be the following:
---
>From ae910a86ada86804c34cc8136afebc9fefa15813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:28:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] xfs, xfsaild: Do not block suspend

Hendik has reported suspend failures due to xfsaild blocking the freezer
to settle down.
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: PM: Preparing system for sleep (mem)
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks ...
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: Freezing of tasks failed after 20.002 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: xfsaild/dm-5 S 00000000 0 1293 2 0x00000080
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: f0ef5f00 00000046 00000200 00000000 ffff9022 c02d3800 00000000 00000032
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: ee0b2400 00000032 f71e0d00 f36fabc0 f0ef2d00 f0ef6000 f0ef2d00 f12f90c0
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: f0ef5f0c c0844e44 00000000 f0ef5f6c f811e0be 00000000 00000000 f0ef2d00
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: Call Trace:
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: [<c0844e44>] schedule+0x34/0x90
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: [<f811e0be>] xfsaild+0x5de/0x600 [xfs]
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: [<c0286cbb>] kthread+0x9b/0xb0
Jan 17 19:59:56 linux-6380 kernel: [<c0848a79>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x38

The issue has been there for quite some time but it has been made
visible by only by 24ba16bb3d49 ("xfs: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xfsaild
kthread") because the suspend started seeing xfsaild.

The above commit has missed that the !xfs_ail_min branch might call
schedule with TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE without calling try_to_freeze so the pm
suspend would wake up the kernel thread over and over again without any
progress. What we want here is to use freezable_schedule instead to hide
the thread from the suspend.

While we are here also change schedule_timeout to freezable variant to
prevent from spurious wakeups by suspend.

Reported-by: Hendrik Woltersdorf <hendrikw@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
index aa67339b9537..d6c9c3e9e02b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
@@ -520,14 +520,14 @@ xfsaild(
if (!xfs_ail_min(ailp) &&
ailp->xa_target == ailp->xa_target_prev) {
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
- schedule();
+ freezable_schedule();
tout = 0;
continue;
}
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);

if (tout)
- schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(tout));
+ freezable_schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(tout));

__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

--
2.7.0.rc3

--
Michal Hocko