Re: [PATCH] xfs: xfs_alloc_fix_minleft can underflow near ENOSPC

From: "Michael L. Semon" <mlsemon35@gmail.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: xfs_alloc_fix_minleft can underflow near ENOSPC
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:32:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E4B08B.5050801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150218004838.GM4251@dastard>

On 02/17/15 19:48, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:36:54AM -0500, Michael L. Semon wrote:
>> On 02/16/15 18:17, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:35:50AM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>>>> Thanks Michael, you don't need to hold your test box for me. I do
>>>> have a way to recreate these ABBA AGF buffer allocation deadlocks
>>>> and understand the whys and hows very well. I don't have a community
>>>> way to make a xfstest for it but I think your test is getting close.
>>>
>>> If you know what is causing them, then please explain how it occurs
>>> and how you think it needs to be fixed. Just telling us that you know
>>> something that we don't doesn't help us solve the problem. :(
>>>
>>> In general, the use of the args->firstblock is supposed to avoid the
>>> ABBA locking order issues with multiple allocations in the one
>>> transaction by preventing AG selection loops from looping back into
>>> AGs with a lower index than the first allocation that was made.
>>>
>>> So if you are seeing deadlocks, then it may be that we aren't
>>> following this constraint correctly in all locations....
>>
>> Will this be a classic deadlock that will cause problems when trying to
>> kill processes and unmount filesystems?  If so, then I was unable to use
>> generic/224 to trigger a deadlock.  If not, then I'll need a better way
>> of looking at the problem.
> 
> Yes, it will hang the filesystem.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

Thanks.  I'll try again tonight.

Last night's attempt was a combination of fio, fsstress, and a shell loop 
of xfs_io's fcollapse command, all at once on an SSD.  At the end of the 
night, XFS was laughing at me.  Therefore, I added the same test on the 
3-partition RAID-0 side.  This morning, XFS is still laughing at me, but 
the RAID-0 test is still running.

Thanks!

Michael

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