On Thu, May 28 2009, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 27-05-09 20:49:59, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:45:43PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > >
> > > This one has been tested good, where good means that it boots and
> > > functions normally at least. Whether it fixes your issue, that would be
> > > interesting to know :-)
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have. Here's a dmesg with the
> > softlockup report and the sysrq-t output. Unfortunately the dmesg
> > file is too big for LKML, so I've compressed it so you can get the
> > whole thing.
> Everybody waits for sys_sync() to complete and they never seem to be
> woken up. Jens, wb_work_complete() seems a bit fishy - who does
> wb_clear_work() in sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL which is on stack?
It is tricky, I looked through that several times. I think
wb_work_complete() should do:
if (!bdi_work_on_stack(work))
bdi_work_clear(work);
if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE || bdi_work_on_stack(work))
call_rcu(&work->rcu_head, bdi_work_free);
to have bdi_work_clear() called for the on-stack work. I'll double check
this and roll out a new release, once tested. I haven't been able to
reproduce Ted's problem yet, but perhaps my bdi_alloc() test failures
haven't triggered for WB_SYNC_ALL yet.
> > There's also a lockdep warning which fsx triggered.
> The lockdep warning is definitely unrelated. It's really a possible
> deadlock, although not quite probable. IMHO the problem is that
> sysfs_mutex gets above mmap_sem due to code in sysfs_readdir which calls
> filldir() which may cause page fault. At the same time it gets quite low
> on the lock stack because filesystems call sysfs functions from their
> internal functions (in this case ext4_put_super) holding quite some locks.
> Adding a few CC's for this.
Thanks, I didn't see any bdi related stuff in there either.
--
Jens Axboe
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