On Thu 31-10-13 21:37:25, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 31-10-13 12:30:51, George Spelvin wrote: > > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu 31-10-13 05:58:16, George Spelvin wrote: > > >> [x.908259] Call Trace: > > >> [x.908265] [<ffffffff81561d7f>] dump_stack+0x54/0x74 > > >> [x.908268] [<ffffffff81069d2f>] __might_sleep+0xcf/0xf0 > > >> [x.908271] [<ffffffff8119079b>] ext4_journal_check_start+0x1b/0xa0 > > >> [x.908273] [<ffffffff81190871>] __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x21/0x80 > > >> [x.908276] [<ffffffff81177795>] ext4_dirty_inode+0x25/0x60 > > >> [x.908280] [<ffffffff811296ed>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x2d/0x230 > > >> [x.908283] [<ffffffff811992bc>] ext4_free_blocks+0x73c/0xa30 > > >> [x.908285] [<ffffffff8118d936>] ext4_ext_remove_space+0x806/0xe20 > > >> [x.908287] [<ffffffff8119fb14>] ? ext4_es_free_extent+0x54/0x60 > > >> [x.908289] [<ffffffff8118fc18>] ext4_ext_truncate+0xb8/0xe0 > > >> [x.908291] [<ffffffff81176065>] ext4_truncate+0x2b5/0x300 > > >> [x.908292] [<ffffffff81176b18>] ext4_evict_inode+0x3f8/0x430 > > >> [x.908295] [<ffffffff8111c69a>] evict+0xba/0x1c0 > > >> [x.908297] [<ffffffff8111d04b>] iput+0x10b/0x1b0 > > >> [x.908298] [<ffffffff81118e38>] dput+0x278/0x350 > > >> [x.908301] [<ffffffff81104d0a>] __fput+0x16a/0x240 > > >> [x.908303] [<ffffffff81104e19>] ____fput+0x9/0x10 > > >> [x.908306] [<ffffffff8105e30c>] task_work_run+0x9c/0xd0 > > >> [x.908309] [<ffffffff810451f7>] do_exit+0x2a7/0x9d0 > > >> [x.908311] [<ffffffff8104f8ce>] ? __sigqueue_free.part.13+0x2e/0x40 > > >> [x.908312] [<ffffffff8104679e>] do_group_exit+0x3e/0xb0 > > >> [x.908315] [<ffffffff81052740>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x1b0/0x5f0 > > >> [x.908317] [<ffffffff81002133>] do_signal+0x43/0x940 > > >> [x.908319] [<ffffffff81051698>] ? do_send_sig_info+0x58/0x80 > > >> [x.908320] [<ffffffff81002a8d>] do_notify_resume+0x5d/0x80 > > >> [x.908323] [<ffffffff81569ca0>] int_signal+0x12/0x17 > > > > > > This is really fishy. So ext4_free_blocks() has might_sleep() just at its > > > beginning so at that point irqs were enabled. ext4_dirty_inode() ends up > > > having the might_sleep() check also at its beginning (from > > > ext4_journal_check_start()) so the disabling must have happened somewhere > > > in between. > > > > Thanks a lot for your debugging help! > > > > > The __mark_inode_dirty() call likely comes from dquot_free_block(). Can you > > > attach your current .config and also output of /proc/mounts? Depending on > > > that I'll see what other points checked for sleepable context. Definitely > > > ext4_journal_get_write_access() and ext4_mb_load_buddy() check for > > > might_sleep() as well and there's not much happening between that and the > > > call to dquot_free_block() in ext4_free_blocks(). Strange. > > > > "grep -v '^#' .config | cat -s" appended, and here's /proc/mounts. > > The NFS mount with hostname, path, and IP address redacted is a a > > read-only mount of "useful stuff" that was completely idle at the time. > > (It's not a home directory or /usr/share or anything.) > > > > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > > /dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 > > tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=805136k,mode=755 0 0 > > tmpfs /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0 > > proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 > > sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 > > devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1006234,mode=755 0 0 > > tmpfs /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=6643400k 0 0 > > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > > fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0 > > /dev/md2 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime,size=16777216k 0 0 > > rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0 > > server:/export/redacted /red/acted nfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=0.1.2.3,mountvers=3,mountport=2050,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=0.1.2.3 0 0 > Thanks for info. So ext4 mount options look pretty normal, quota is > disabled meaning that really the last place doing might_sleep() check is > ext4_mb_load_buddy(). The only thing that somewhat catched my eye is > CONFIG_SLUB. > > So can you add attached patch which adds couple more might_sleep() into > ext4_free_blocks(). Also you can enable CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERWLOW just to > make sure we aren't really overflowing the stack. Also you can try using > CONFIG_SLAB instead of CONFIG_SLUB to rule out some oddity in that > allocator. Forgot to attach the patch... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
>From 0babe605cb5b71bec811c7c8676c3f6a97b148d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:22:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Sprinkle some might_sleep() checks into the code. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index a41e3ba8cfaa..8b6bdb975e10 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -4757,6 +4757,7 @@ do_more: if (err) goto error_return; + might_sleep(); if ((flags & EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_METADATA) && ext4_handle_valid(handle)) { struct ext4_free_data *new_entry; /* @@ -4764,6 +4765,7 @@ do_more: * be used until this transaction is committed */ retry: + might_sleep(); new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep, GFP_NOFS); if (!new_entry) { /* @@ -4779,6 +4781,7 @@ do_more: new_entry->efd_count = count_clusters; new_entry->efd_tid = handle->h_transaction->t_tid; + might_sleep(); ext4_lock_group(sb, block_group); mb_clear_bits(bitmap_bh->b_data, bit, count_clusters); ext4_mb_free_metadata(handle, &e4b, new_entry); @@ -4796,7 +4799,7 @@ do_more: err); } - + might_sleep(); ext4_lock_group(sb, block_group); mb_clear_bits(bitmap_bh->b_data, bit, count_clusters); mb_free_blocks(inode, &e4b, bit, count_clusters); @@ -4807,6 +4810,7 @@ do_more: ext4_block_bitmap_csum_set(sb, block_group, gdp, bitmap_bh); ext4_group_desc_csum_set(sb, block_group, gdp); ext4_unlock_group(sb, block_group); + might_sleep(); if (sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex) { ext4_group_t flex_group = ext4_flex_group(sbi, block_group); -- 1.8.1.4