I've discovered that generic/269 will trigger a BUG_ON on line 5070 in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa when running kvm-xfstests on the 1k test case with a kernel built from the current ext4 dev branch. After hitting the BUG_ON, the kernel then reports persistent soft lockups. I mentioned this in today's concall, and Ted confirmed the current dev branch should reflect what's upstream at this time. This test reproduces for me 5 to 10% of the time, but reliably enough - I typically don't need more than 25 trials to see the failure, and 10 often suffices. (I haven't yet tried the 4k test case, but will do so.) The failure bisects to: 7e170922f06b ("ext4: Add allocation criteria 1.5 (CR1_5)") Trace follows. Eric generic/269 24s ... [21:41:11][ 284.208474] run fstests generic/269 at 2023-07-03 21:41:11 [ 284.511484] EXT4-fs (vdc): mounted filesystem 2b1fbdd6-2724-47bc-b7b5-f4a73c9f19be r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none. [ 284.950657] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 284.950901] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5070! [ 284.951104] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 284.951296] CPU: 0 PID: 12039 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5+ #6 [ 284.951567] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 [ 284.951900] RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0 [ 284.952124] Code: b5 7e 0f 85 b5 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 e9 ab fe ff ff e8 9d 56 d3 ff 84 c0 0f 85 b5 fe ff ff 0f 0b e9 ae fe ff ff 0f 0b 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 4c 89 c1 31 c0 e9 42 ff ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 [ 284.952891] RSP: 0018:ffffc90004053970 EFLAGS: 00010a87 [ 284.953124] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff8880342d0720 RCX: 0000000000000001 [ 284.953420] RDX: 0000000000004000 RSI: 00001e4000000000 RDI: ffff8880342d0720 [ 284.953720] RBP: ffffc90004053a00 R08: ffff88800a5fc000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 284.954020] R10: ffff888007964a98 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000003 [ 284.954321] R13: ffff8880342d0720 R14: ffff88800a5fc000 R15: ffff88800abfc000 [ 284.954610] FS: 00007f3d9db07740(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 284.954923] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 284.955148] CR2: 000055b54ce0fde8 CR3: 0000000006730006 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 [ 284.955443] PKRU: 55555554 [ 284.955559] Call Trace: [ 284.955669] <TASK> [ 284.955760] ? die+0x33/0x90 [ 284.955887] ? do_trap+0xe0/0x110 [ 284.956031] ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0 [ 284.956223] ? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80 [ 284.956385] ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0 [ 284.956575] ? exc_invalid_op+0x4b/0x70 [ 284.956738] ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0 [ 284.956929] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ 284.957112] ? ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0x2a6/0x2c0 [ 284.957305] ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x2e0/0x3e0 [ 284.957512] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x3be/0xd80 [ 284.957716] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9dc/0x1040 [ 284.957895] ? __kmalloc+0xca/0x150 [ 284.958038] ? ext4_find_extent+0x3ec/0x450 [ 284.958204] ? _raw_write_unlock+0x29/0x50 [ 284.958369] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x9a4/0x19d0 [ 284.958543] ? __kmem_cache_free+0x17d/0x2e0 [ 284.958723] ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80 [ 284.958889] ext4_map_blocks+0x230/0x5d0 [ 284.959056] ? lock_release+0x139/0x280 [ 284.959222] ext4_getblk+0x7b/0x2d0 [ 284.959369] ext4_bread+0xc/0x70 [ 284.959510] ext4_append+0x8d/0x190 [ 284.959665] ext4_init_new_dir+0xd5/0x1b0 [ 284.959835] ext4_mkdir+0x192/0x340 [ 284.959987] vfs_mkdir+0x98/0x140 [ 284.960133] do_mkdirat+0x131/0x160 [ 284.960285] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x48/0x70 [ 284.960445] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [ 284.960600] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc [ 284.960814] RIP: 0033:0x7f3d9dbf8b07 [ 284.960967] Code: 1f 40 00 48 8b 05 89 f3 0c 00 64 c7 00 5f 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 b8 53 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 59 f3 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 [ 284.961741] RSP: 002b:00007ffcd5131098 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000053 [ 284.962075] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffcd5131200 RCX: 00007f3d9dbf8b07 [ 284.962363] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000001ff RDI: 000055b54cdac240 [ 284.962647] RBP: 00000000000001ff R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003 [ 284.962928] R10: 00007ffcd5130d16 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00000000000000cb [ 284.963209] R13: 8f5c28f5c28f5c29 R14: 000055b54c8ec660 R15: 00000000000000cb [ 284.963492] </TASK> [ 284.963586] Modules linked in: [ 284.963730] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---