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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS hung task in xfs_ail_push_all_sync() when unmounting FS after disk failure/recovery
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:37:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160323223747.GX30721@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160323153221.GA19456@redhat.com>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 04:32:21PM +0100, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> I'm still trying to get a reliable reproducer, at least exactly with what I have
> seen a few days ago.
> 
> Shyam, could you try to reproduce it with a recent/upstream kernel? That would
> be great to make sure we have been seen the same issue.
> 
> AFAICT, it happens in the following situation:
> 
> 1 - Something is written to the filesystem
> 2 - log checkpoint is done for the previous write
> 3 - Disk failure
> 4 - XFS tries to writeback metadata logged in [2]
> 
> When [4] happens, I can't trigger xfs_log_force messages all the time, most of
> time I just get an infinite loop in these messages:
> 
> [12694.318109] XFS (dm-0): Failing async write on buffer block
> 0xffffffffffffffff. Retrying async write.
>
> Sometimes I can trigger the xfs_log_force() loop.

This all smells like the filesystem is getting IO errors but it not
in a shutdown state. What happens when you run 'xfs_io -x -c
"shutdown" /mnt/pt' on a filesystem in this state? Can you then
unmount it?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-23 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-22 11:21 XFS hung task in xfs_ail_push_all_sync() when unmounting FS after disk failure/recovery Shyam Kaushik
2016-03-22 12:19 ` Brian Foster
2016-03-22 13:01   ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-03-22 14:03     ` Brian Foster
2016-03-22 15:38       ` Carlos Maiolino
2016-03-22 15:56         ` Carlos Maiolino
2016-03-23  9:43       ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-03-23 12:30         ` Brian Foster
2016-03-23 15:32           ` Carlos Maiolino
2016-03-23 22:37             ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-03-24 11:08               ` Carlos Maiolino
2016-03-24 16:52               ` Carlos Maiolino
2016-03-24 21:56                 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-01 12:31                   ` Carlos Maiolino
2016-03-23  9:52   ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-03-24 13:38   ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-08 10:51   ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-08 13:16     ` Brian Foster
2016-04-08 13:35       ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-08 14:31         ` Carlos Maiolino
2016-04-08 17:48       ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-08 19:00         ` Brian Foster
2016-04-08 17:51       ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-08 22:46     ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-10 18:40       ` Alex Lyakas
2016-04-11  1:21         ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-11 14:52           ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-11 22:47             ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-12  5:20           ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-12  6:59           ` Shyam Kaushik
2016-04-12  8:19             ` Dave Chinner

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