* Dave Chinner: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:28:27AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Simply running “du -hc” on a large directory tree causes du to be >> killed because of kernel paging request failure in the XFS code. > > dmesg output? if the system was still running, then you might be > able to pull the trace from syslog. But we can't do much without > knowing what the actual failure was.... Huh. I actually have something in syslog: [ 4001.238411] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.238415] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 4001.238417] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 4001.238418] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 4001.238420] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 4001.238423] CPU: 3 PID: 143 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G I 5.2.16fw+ #1 [ 4001.238424] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P6X58D-E, BIOS 0701 05/10/2011 [ 4001.238430] RIP: 0010:__reset_isolation_pfn+0x27f/0x3c0 [ 4001.238432] Code: 44 c6 48 8b 00 a8 10 74 bc 49 8b 16 48 89 d0 48 c1 ea 35 48 8b 14 d7 48 c1 e8 2d 48 85 d2 74 0a 0f b6 c0 48 c1 e0 04 48 01 c2 <48> 8b 02 4c 89 f2 41 b8 01 00 00 00 31 f6 b9 03 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 [ 4001.238433] RSP: 0018:ffffc900003e7de0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4001.238435] RAX: 0000000000057285 RBX: 0000000000108000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.238437] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000210 RDI: ffff88833fffa000 [ 4001.238438] RBP: ffffc900003e7e18 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffff888335000000 [ 4001.238439] R10: ffff88833fff9000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.238440] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8883389c01c0 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 4001.238442] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888333cc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4001.238444] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4001.238445] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000200a003 CR4: 00000000000206e0 [ 4001.238446] Call Trace: [ 4001.238450] __reset_isolation_suitable+0x9b/0x120 [ 4001.238453] reset_isolation_suitable+0x3b/0x40 [ 4001.238456] kswapd+0x98/0x300 [ 4001.238460] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 [ 4001.238463] kthread+0x114/0x130 [ 4001.238465] ? balance_pgdat+0x450/0x450 [ 4001.238467] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 4001.238470] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 4001.238472] Modules linked in: nfnetlink 8021q garp stp llc fuse ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp ip6table_filter xt_state xt_conntrack iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter tun ip6_tables binfmt_misc mxm_wmi evdev snd_hda_codec_hdmi coretemp snd_hda_intel kvm_intel snd_hda_codec serio_raw kvm snd_hwdep irqbypass snd_hda_core pcspkr snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore sg i7core_edac asus_atk0110 wmi button loop ip_tables x_tables raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 multipath linear md_mod hid_generic usbhid hid crc32c_intel psmouse sr_mod cdrom radeon e1000e ptp xhci_pci pps_core uhci_hcd ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd sky2 usbcore ttm usb_common sd_mod [ 4001.238509] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.238511] ---[ end trace 3cdcc14b40255fe6 ]--- [ 4001.238514] RIP: 0010:__reset_isolation_pfn+0x27f/0x3c0 [ 4001.238516] Code: 44 c6 48 8b 00 a8 10 74 bc 49 8b 16 48 89 d0 48 c1 ea 35 48 8b 14 d7 48 c1 e8 2d 48 85 d2 74 0a 0f b6 c0 48 c1 e0 04 48 01 c2 <48> 8b 02 4c 89 f2 41 b8 01 00 00 00 31 f6 b9 03 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 [ 4001.238518] RSP: 0018:ffffc900003e7de0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4001.238519] RAX: 0000000000057285 RBX: 0000000000108000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.238521] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000210 RDI: ffff88833fffa000 [ 4001.238522] RBP: ffffc900003e7e18 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffff888335000000 [ 4001.238523] R10: ffff88833fff9000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.238524] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8883389c01c0 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 4001.238526] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888333cc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4001.238528] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4001.238529] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000200a003 CR4: 00000000000206e0 [ 4001.709169] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc900003e7ec8 [ 4001.709172] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 4001.709173] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 4001.709174] PGD 33201a067 P4D 33201a067 PUD 33201b067 PMD 3322af067 PTE 0 [ 4001.709177] Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP PTI [ 4001.709179] CPU: 1 PID: 10507 Comm: du Tainted: G D I 5.2.16fw+ #1 [ 4001.709180] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P6X58D-E, BIOS 0701 05/10/2011 [ 4001.709184] RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x3c/0x130 [ 4001.709186] Code: 85 c9 74 0a 41 f6 01 04 0f 85 9f 00 00 00 48 8b 47 08 48 8d 5f 08 48 83 e8 18 48 8d 78 18 48 39 fb 0f 84 ca 00 00 00 89 75 d4 <48> 8b 70 18 4d 89 cd 45 31 e4 4c 89 45 c8 89 4d d0 89 55 c4 4c 8d [ 4001.709187] RSP: 0018:ffffc900043db5e0 EFLAGS: 00010012 [ 4001.709188] RAX: ffffc900003e7eb0 RBX: ffffffff82066f00 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.709189] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffc900003e7ec8 [ 4001.709190] RBP: ffffc900043db620 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc900043db638 [ 4001.709191] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 4001.709192] R13: 0000000000000286 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.709193] FS: 00007f0090d20540(0000) GS:ffff888333c40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4001.709194] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4001.709195] CR2: ffffc900003e7ec8 CR3: 00000002b85dc004 CR4: 00000000000206e0 [ 4001.709195] Call Trace: [ 4001.709198] __wake_up_common_lock+0x6c/0x90 [ 4001.709200] __wake_up+0xe/0x10 [ 4001.709203] wakeup_kswapd+0xf4/0x120 [ 4001.709206] get_page_from_freelist+0x52e/0xc80 [ 4001.709208] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xf0/0xcc0 [ 4001.709209] ? get_page_from_freelist+0xa8d/0xc80 [ 4001.709212] ? radix_tree_lookup+0xd/0x10 [ 4001.709215] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x80/0xa0 [ 4001.709217] xfs_buf_allocate_memory+0x20e/0x320 [ 4001.709219] xfs_buf_get_map+0xe8/0x190 [ 4001.709220] xfs_buf_read_map+0x25/0x100 [ 4001.709223] xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0xb2/0x1f0 [ 4001.709225] xfs_imap_to_bp+0x53/0xa0 [ 4001.709226] xfs_iread+0x76/0x1b0 [ 4001.709229] xfs_iget+0x1e5/0x700 [ 4001.709231] xfs_lookup+0x63/0x90 [ 4001.709232] xfs_vn_lookup+0x47/0x80 [ 4001.709235] __lookup_slow+0x7f/0x120 [ 4001.709236] lookup_slow+0x35/0x50 [ 4001.709238] walk_component+0x193/0x2a0 [ 4001.709239] ? path_init+0x112/0x2f0 [ 4001.709240] path_lookupat.isra.16+0x5c/0x200 [ 4001.709242] filename_lookup.part.27+0x88/0x100 [ 4001.709243] ? xfs_ilock+0x39/0x90 [ 4001.709245] ? __check_object_size+0xf6/0x187 [ 4001.709248] ? strncpy_from_user+0x56/0x1c0 [ 4001.709249] user_path_at_empty+0x39/0x40 [ 4001.709250] vfs_statx+0x62/0xb0 [ 4001.709252] __se_sys_newfstatat+0x26/0x50 [ 4001.709254] __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x19/0x20 [ 4001.709255] do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x260 [ 4001.709257] ? page_fault+0x8/0x30 [ 4001.709259] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [ 4001.709261] RIP: 0033:0x7f0090c47e49 [ 4001.709262] Code: 64 c7 00 16 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 0f 1f 40 00 89 f0 48 89 d6 83 ff 01 77 36 89 c7 45 89 c2 48 89 ca b8 06 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 07 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 15 11 10 0d 00 [ 4001.709263] RSP: 002b:00007fffee0929e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000106 [ 4001.709264] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005635d95cfe00 RCX: 00007f0090c47e49 [ 4001.709265] RDX: 00005635d95cfe78 RSI: 00005635d95cff08 RDI: 0000000000000004 [ 4001.709266] RBP: 00005635d95cfe78 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 4001.709267] R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005635d8c1e5c0 [ 4001.709268] R13: 00005635d95cfe00 R14: 00005635d8c1e650 R15: 000000000000000b [ 4001.709269] Modules linked in: nfnetlink 8021q garp stp llc fuse ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp ip6table_filter xt_state xt_conntrack iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter tun ip6_tables binfmt_misc mxm_wmi evdev snd_hda_codec_hdmi coretemp snd_hda_intel kvm_intel snd_hda_codec serio_raw kvm snd_hwdep irqbypass snd_hda_core pcspkr snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore sg i7core_edac asus_atk0110 wmi button loop ip_tables x_tables raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid1 raid0 multipath linear md_mod hid_generic usbhid hid crc32c_intel psmouse sr_mod cdrom radeon e1000e ptp xhci_pci pps_core uhci_hcd ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd sky2 usbcore ttm usb_common sd_mod [ 4001.709293] CR2: ffffc900003e7ec8 [ 4001.709295] ---[ end trace 3cdcc14b40255fe7 ]--- [ 4001.709297] RIP: 0010:__reset_isolation_pfn+0x27f/0x3c0 [ 4001.709299] Code: 44 c6 48 8b 00 a8 10 74 bc 49 8b 16 48 89 d0 48 c1 ea 35 48 8b 14 d7 48 c1 e8 2d 48 85 d2 74 0a 0f b6 c0 48 c1 e0 04 48 01 c2 <48> 8b 02 4c 89 f2 41 b8 01 00 00 00 31 f6 b9 03 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 [ 4001.709299] RSP: 0018:ffffc900003e7de0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4001.709300] RAX: 0000000000057285 RBX: 0000000000108000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.709301] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000210 RDI: ffff88833fffa000 [ 4001.709302] RBP: ffffc900003e7e18 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffff888335000000 [ 4001.709303] R10: ffff88833fff9000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 4001.709304] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8883389c01c0 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 4001.709305] FS: 00007f0090d20540(0000) GS:ffff888333c40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4001.709306] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4001.709307] CR2: ffffc900003e7ec8 CR3: 00000002b85dc004 CR4: 00000000000206e0 So XFS wasn't *that* unhappy if it could still write to the file system. > FWIW, one of my regular test workloads is iterating a directory tree > with 50 million inodes in several different ways to stress reclaim > algorithms in ways that users do. I haven't seen issues with that > test for a while, so it's not an obvious problem whatever you came > across. Right, I should have tried to reproduce it first. I actually can't.
