Re: Hang / zombie process from Xarray page-fault conversion (bisected)

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 7:26 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:34:51AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:38 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:35:05PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:10 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 10:16:17PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Willy,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We're seeing a case where RocksDB hangs and becomes defunct when
> > > > > > trying to kill the process. v4.19 succeeds and v4.20 fails. Robert was
> > > > > > able to bisect this to commit b15cd800682f "dax: Convert page fault
> > > > > > handlers to XArray".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I see some direct usage of xa_index and wonder if there are some more
> > > > > > pmd fixups to do?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Other thoughts?
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't see why killing a process would have much to do with PMD
> > > > > misalignment.  The symptoms (hanging on a signal) smell much more like
> > > > > leaving a locked entry in the tree.  Is this easy to reproduce?  Can you
> > > > > get /proc/$pid/stack for a hung task?
> > > >
> > > > It's fairly easy to reproduce, I'll see if I can package up all the
> > > > dependencies into something that fails in a VM.
> > > >
> > > > It's limited to xfs, no failure on ext4 to date.
> > > >
> > > > The hung process appears to be:
> > > >
> > > >      kworker/53:1-xfs-sync/pmem0
> > >
> > > That's completely internal to XFS. Every 30s the work is triggered
> > > and it either does a log flush (if the fs is active) or it syncs the
> > > superblock to clean the log and idle the filesystem. It has nothing
> > > to do with user processes, and I don't see why killing a process has
> > > any effect on what it does...
> > >
> > > > ...and then the rest of the database processes grind to a halt from there.
> > > >
> > > > Robert was kind enough to capture /proc/$pid/stack, but nothing interesting:
> > > >
> > > > [<0>] worker_thread+0xb2/0x380
> > > > [<0>] kthread+0x112/0x130
> > > > [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
> > > > [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> > >
> > > Much more useful would be:
> > >
> > > # echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> > >
> > > And post the entire output of dmesg.
> >
> > Here it is:
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/djbw/ca7117023305f325aca6f8ef30e11556
>
> Which tells us nothing. :(
>
> I think a bisect is in order...

Right, you missed this earlier in the thread, bisect points to:

     b15cd800682f "dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray"



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