On 08/27/2010 02:10 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:58:46PM -0500, Brian King wrote:
>>
>> I've been debugging a hang in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode
>> which is being seen on Power 6 systems quite a lot. When we get
>> in the hung state, all I/O to the disk in question gets blocked
>> where we stay indefinitely. Looking at the task list, I can see
>> we are stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode waiting on a
>> wake up. I added some debug code to detect this scenario and
>> dump additional data if we were stuck in jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode
>> for longer than 30 minutes. When it hit, I was able to see that
>> i_flags was 0, suggesting we missed the wake up.
>>
>> This patch changes i_flags to be an unsigned long, uses bit operators
>> to access it, and adds barriers around the accesses. Prior to applying
>> this patch, we were regularly hitting this hang on numerous systems
>> in our test environment. After applying the patch, the hangs no longer
>> occur. Its still not clear to me why the j_list_lock doesn't protect us
>> in this path. It also appears a hang very similar to this was seen
>> in the past and then was no longer recreatable:
>
> I've been look at this patch, and I can see how converting to bitops
> definitely makes sense. I can also see how adding
> smp_mb__after_clear_bit() makes sense. However, it's not clear the
> smp_mb() call here helps?
I pulled out the smp_mb and we ran clean for 75 hours before stopping the test.
We would generally hit this in less than 36 hours, so I think we can safely
remove this barrier. I'll send out an updated patch.
Thanks,
Brian
>
>> diff -puN fs/jbd2/journal.c~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch fs/jbd2/journal.c
>> --- linux-2.6/fs/jbd2/journal.c~jbd2_ji_commit_barrier_patch 2010-07-14 13:46:17.000000000 -0500
>> +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/fs/jbd2/journal.c 2010-07-14 13:46:17.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -2209,9 +2211,10 @@ void jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode(jour
>> restart:
>> spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
>> /* Is commit writing out inode - we have to wait */
>> - if (jinode->i_flags & JI_COMMIT_RUNNING) {
>> + if (test_bit(__JI_COMMIT_RUNNING, &jinode->i_flags)) {
>> wait_queue_head_t *wq;
>> DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING);
>> + smp_mb();
>> wq = bit_waitqueue(&jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING);
>> prepare_to_wait(wq, &wait.wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
>> spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
>
> - Ted
--
Brian King
Linux on Power Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
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