On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu 02-04-09 18:29:21, Ying Han wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu 02-04-09 15:52:19, Ying Han wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> On Thursday 02 April 2009 22:34:01 Jan Kara wrote: >> >> >>> On Thu 02-04-09 22:24:29, Nick Piggin wrote: >> >> >>> > On Thursday 02 April 2009 09:36:13 Ying Han wrote: >> >> >>> > > Hi Jan: >> >> >>> > > I feel that the problem you saw is kind of differnt than mine. As >> >> >>> > > you mentioned that you saw the PageError() message, which i don't see >> >> >>> > > it on my system. I tried you patch(based on 2.6.21) on my system and >> >> >>> > > it runs ok for 2 days, Still, since i don't see the same error message >> >> >>> > > as you saw, i am not convineced this is the root cause at least for >> >> >>> > > our problem. I am still looking into it. >> >> >>> > > So, are you seeing the PageError() every time the problem happened? >> >> >>> > >> >> >>> > So I asked if you could test with my workaround of taking truncate_mutex >> >> >>> > at the start of ext2_get_blocks, and report back. I never heard of any >> >> >>> > response after that. >> >> >>> > >> >> >>> > To reiterate: I was able to reproduce a problem with ext2 (I was testing >> >> >>> > on brd to get IO rates high enough to reproduce it quite frequently). >> >> >>> > I think I narrowed the problem down to block allocation or inode block >> >> >>> > tree corruption because I was unable to reproduce it with that hack in >> >> >>> > place. >> >> >>> Nick, what load did you use for reproduction? I'll try to reproduce it >> >> >>> here so that I can debug ext2... >> >> >> >> >> >> OK, I set up the filesystem like this: >> >> >> >> >> >> modprobe rd rd_size=$[3*1024*1024] #almost fill memory so we reclaim buffers >> >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=4k #prefill brd so we don't get alloc deadlock >> >> >> mkfs.ext2 -b1024 /dev/ram0 #1K buffers >> >> >> >> >> >> Test is basically unmodified except I use 64MB files, and start 8 of them >> >> >> at once to (8 core system, so improve chances of hitting the bug). Although I >> >> >> do see it with only 1 running it takes longer to trigger. >> >> >> >> >> >> I also run a loop doing 'sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' but I don't >> >> >> know if that really helps speed up reproducing it. It is quite random to hit, >> >> >> but I was able to hit it IIRC in under a minute with that setup. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Here is how i reproduce it: >> >> > Filesystem is ext2 with blocksize 4096 >> >> > Fill up the ram with 95% anon memory and mlockall ( put enough memory >> >> > pressure which will trigger page reclaim and background writeout) >> >> > Run one thread of the test program >> >> > >> >> > and i will see "bad pages" within few minutes. >> >> >> >> And here is the "top" and stdout while it is getting "bad pages" >> >> top >> >> >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> >> 3487 root 20 0 52616 50m 284 R 95 0.3 3:58.85 usemem >> >> 3810 root 20 0 129m 99m 99m D 41 0.6 0:01.87 ftruncate_mmap >> >> 261 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 4 0.0 0:31.08 kswapd0 >> >> 262 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 3 0.0 0:10.26 kswapd1 >> >> >> >> stdout: >> >> >> >> while true; do >> >> ./ftruncate_mmap; >> >> done >> >> Running 852 bad page >> >> Running 315 bad page >> >> Running 999 bad page >> >> Running 482 bad page >> >> Running 24 bad page >> > Thanks, for the help. I've debugged the problem to a bug in >> > ext2_get_block(). I've already sent out a patch which should fix the issue >> > (at least it fixes the problem for me). >> > The fix is also attached if you want to try it. >> >> hmm, now i do see that get_block() returns ENOSPC by printk the err. >> So did you applied the patch which redirty_page_for_writepage as well >> as this one together? > No, my patch contained only a fix in ext2_get_block(). When you see > ENOSPC, that's a completely separate issue. You may apply that patch but > with ext2 it would be enough to make the file fit the ram disk. I.e. first > try with dd how big file fits there and then run your tester with at most > as big file so that you don't hit ENOSPC... > >> I will start the test with kernel applied both patches and leave it for running. > OK. I applied the patch(based on 2.6.26) in the attachment and the test itself runs fine so far without reporting "bad pages", however, i seems get deadlock in the varlog, here is the message and i turned on lockdep. kernel: 1 lock held by kswapd1/264: kernel: #0: (&ei->truncate_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8031d529>] ext2_get_block+0x109/0x960 kernel: INFO: task ftruncate_mmap:2950 blocked for more than 120 seconds. kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kernel: ftruncate_mma D ffff81047e733a80 0 2950 2858 kernel: ffff8101798516f8 0000000000000092 0000000000000000 0000000000000046 kernel: ffff81047e0a1260 ffff81047f070000 ffff81047e0a15c0 0000000100130c66 kernel: 00000000ffffffff ffffffff8025740d 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 kernel: Call Trace: kernel: [<ffffffff8025740d>] mark_held_locks+0x3d/0x80 kernel: [<ffffffff804d78bd>] mutex_lock_nested+0x14d/0x280 kernel: [<ffffffff804d7855>] mutex_lock_nested+0xe5/0x280 kernel: [<ffffffff8031d529>] ext2_get_block+0x109/0x960 kernel: [<ffffffff802ca2e3>] create_empty_buffers+0x43/0xb0 kernel: [<ffffffff802ca2e3>] create_empty_buffers+0x43/0xb0 kernel: [<ffffffff802ca217>] alloc_page_buffers+0x97/0x120 kernel: [<ffffffff802cbfb6>] __block_write_full_page+0x206/0x320 kernel: [<ffffffff802cbe70>] __block_write_full_page+0xc0/0x320 kernel: [<ffffffff8031d420>] ext2_get_block+0x0/0x960 kernel: [<ffffffff8027c74e>] shrink_page_list+0x4fe/0x650 kernel: [<ffffffff80257ee8>] __lock_acquire+0x3b8/0x1080 kernel: [<ffffffff8027be18>] isolate_lru_pages+0x88/0x230 kernel: [<ffffffff8027c9ea>] shrink_inactive_list+0x14a/0x3f0 kernel: [<ffffffff8027cd43>] shrink_zone+0xb3/0x130 kernel: [<ffffffff80249e90>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30 kernel: [<ffffffff8027d1a8>] try_to_free_pages+0x268/0x3e0 kernel: [<ffffffff8027bfc0>] isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x40 kernel: [<ffffffff802774f7>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x1d7/0x4a0 kernel: [<ffffffff80279b94>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x124/0x270 kernel: [<ffffffff8027314f>] filemap_fault+0x18f/0x400 kernel: [<ffffffff80280925>] __do_fault+0x65/0x450 kernel: [<ffffffff80257ee8>] __lock_acquire+0x3b8/0x1080 kernel: [<ffffffff803475dd>] __down_read_trylock+0x1d/0x60 kernel: [<ffffffff8028389a>] handle_mm_fault+0x18a/0x7a0 kernel: [<ffffffff804dba1c>] do_page_fault+0x29c/0x930 kernel: [<ffffffff804d8b46>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a kernel: [<ffffffff804d94dd>] error_exit+0x0/0xa9 kernel: kernel: 2 locks held by ftruncate_mmap/2950: kernel: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<ffffffff804db9af>] do_page_fault+0x22f/0x930 kernel: #1: (&ei->truncate_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8031d529>] ext2_get_block+0x109/0x960 --Ying > > Honza > -- > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > SUSE Labs, CR > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html