On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 21:17 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 02:15:29PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 19:33 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:00:19PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 18:29 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > >
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > > > > Ok, thanks. If you're seeing hangs then that might imply that we have
> > > > > > some sort of excessive looping going on in the cmpxchg loops.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Could you apply the patch below and let me know if it causes either of
> > > > > > the warnings to pop? That might at least point us in the right
> > > > > > direction:
> > > > >
> > > > > No new warnings with attached patch (except existing already lockdep:
> > > > > "INFO: trying to register non-static key.").
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, I saw that in the original logs and it looks unrelated (and
> > > > harmless).
> > > >
> > > > > Systemd timeouts on mounting /home but after entering rescue shell there
> > > > > is no problem running mount /home:
> > > > > Give root password for maintenance
> > > > > (or press Control-D to continue):
> > > > > root@odroidxu3:~# mount /home
> > > > > [ 220.659331] EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ok, thanks for testing it. So I guess we can probably rule out excessive
> > > > looping in those functions as the issue.
> > > >
> > > > To make sure I understand the problem: When systemd tries to do the
> > > > initial mount of /home (which is an ext4 filesystem), it hangs. But once
> > > > it drops to the shell, it works, if you do the mount by hand.
> > > >
> > > > Is that correct?
> > >
> > > Yes, although it also timeouts on setting up /dev/ttySAC2 (serial
> > > console).
> > >
> > > > If so, then is it possible to trigger sysrq commands during the hanging
> > > > mount attempt? Maybe you could use e.g. sysrq-l, sysrq-w, etc. to
> > > > determine what it's blocking on?
> >
> > (trimming the output)
> >
> > Thanks. I don't really see anything obvious in that info,
> > unfortunately. What we really need to do is find the systemd task
> > performing the mount, and see what it's doing.
>
> It's systemd 236.0-2 coming from Arch Linux for ARM. All packages are
> updated.
>
> > We do have one questionable bug in the NFS changes though. Does this
> > patch help at all?
>
> Patches do not change anything (I tried "SQUASH: nfs: fix i_version
> increment when adding a request" and "SQUASH: ext4: use raw API for
> xattr inode refcounts").
>
> I tried again regular SDcard-root boot and it succeeded. Only nfsroot
> fails.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
Got it, that's helpful. Does this patch help (on top of the others) ?
------------------------8<--------------------------
SQUASH: nfs: compare raw iversion counter since that's what's
being stored
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/inode.c | 6 +++---
include/linux/iversion.h | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 0b85cca1184b..93552c482992 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ static unsigned long nfs_wcc_update_inode(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr
if ((fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_PRECHANGE)
&& (fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_CHANGE)
- && !inode_cmp_iversion(inode, fattr->pre_change_attr)) {
+ && !inode_cmp_iversion_raw(inode, fattr->pre_change_attr)) {
inode_set_iversion_raw(inode, fattr->change_attr);
if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
nfs_set_cache_invalid(inode, NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA);
@@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ static int nfs_check_inode_attributes(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fat
if (!nfs_file_has_buffered_writers(nfsi)) {
/* Verify a few of the more important attributes */
- if ((fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_CHANGE) != 0 && inode_cmp_iversion(inode, fattr->change_attr))
+ if ((fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_CHANGE) != 0 && inode_cmp_iversion_raw(inode, fattr->change_attr))
invalid |= NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR | NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE;
if ((fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_MTIME) && !timespec_equal(&inode->i_mtime, &fattr->mtime))
@@ -1778,7 +1778,7 @@ static int nfs_update_inode(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fattr)
/* More cache consistency checks */
if (fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_CHANGE) {
- if (inode_cmp_iversion(inode, fattr->change_attr)) {
+ if (inode_cmp_iversion_raw(inode, fattr->change_attr)) {
dprintk("NFS: change_attr change on server for file %s/%ld\n",
inode->i_sb->s_id, inode->i_ino);
/* Could it be a race with writeback? */
diff --git a/include/linux/iversion.h b/include/linux/iversion.h
index 107fcb3ec809..8c97f67ffbbc 100644
--- a/include/linux/iversion.h
+++ b/include/linux/iversion.h
@@ -190,6 +190,19 @@ inode_query_iversion(struct inode *inode)
return inode_peek_iversion(inode);
}
+/**
+ * inode_cmp_iversion_raw - check whether the raw i_version counter has changed
+ * @inode: inode to check
+ * @old: old value to check against its i_version
+ *
+ * Compare the current raw i_version counter with a previous one. Returns 0 if
+ * they are the same or non-zero if they are different.
+ */
+static inline s64
+inode_cmp_iversion_raw(const struct inode *inode, u64 old)
+{
+ return (s64)inode_peek_iversion(inode) - (s64)old;
+}
/**
* inode_cmp_iversion - check whether the i_version counter has changed
* @inode: inode to check
--
2.14.3
