On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:42:23AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 02-03-17 12:17:47, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > > On 03/02/2017 10:49 AM, Xiong Zhou wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 04:37:31PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 12:46:34PM +0800, Xiong Zhou wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> It's reproduciable, not everytime though. Ext4 works fine. > > >> On ext4 fsstress won't run bulkstat because it doesn't exist. Either > > >> way this smells like a MM issue to me as there were not XFS changes > > >> in that area recently. > > > Yap. > > > > > > First bad commit: > > > > > > commit 5d17a73a2ebeb8d1c6924b91e53ab2650fe86ffb > > > Author: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Fri Feb 24 14:58:53 2017 -0800 > > > > > > vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed > > > > > > Reverting this commit on top of > > > e5d56ef Merge tag 'watchdog-for-linus-v4.11' > > > survives the tests. > > > > Does fsstress test or the system hang ? I am not familiar with this > > code but If it's the test which is getting hung and its hitting this > > new check introduced by the above commit that means the requester is > > currently being killed by OOM killer for some other memory allocation > > request. > > Well, not exactly. It is sufficient for it to be _killed_ by SIGKILL. > And for that it just needs to do a group_exit when one thread was still > in the kernel (see zap_process). While I can change this check to > actually do the oom specific check I believe a more generic > fatal_signal_pending is the right thing to do here. I am still not sure > what is the actual problem here, though. Could you be more specific > please? It's blocking the test and system-shutdown. fsstress wont exit. For anyone interested, a simple ugly reproducer: cat > fst.sh <<EOFF #! /bin/bash -x [ \$# -ne 3 ] && { echo "./single FSTYP TEST XFSTESTS_DIR"; exit 1; } FST=\$1 BLKSZ=4096 fallocate -l 10G /home/test.img fallocate -l 15G /home/scratch.img MNT1=/loopmnt MNT2=/loopsch mkdir -p \$MNT1 mkdir -p \$MNT2 DEV1=\$(losetup --find --show /home/test.img) DEV2=\$(losetup --find --show /home/scratch.img) cleanup() { umount -d \$MNT1 umount -d \$MNT2 umount \$DEV1 \$DEV2 losetup -D || losetup -a | awk -F: '{print \$1}' | xargs losetup -d rm -f /home/{test,scratch}.img } trap cleanup 0 1 2 if [[ \$FST =~ ext ]] ; then mkfs.\${FST} -Fq -b \${BLKSZ} \$DEV1 elif [[ \$FST =~ xfs ]] ; then mkfs.\${FST} -fq -b size=\${BLKSZ} \$DEV1 fi if test \$? -ne 0 ; then echo "mkfs \$DEV1 failed" exit 1 fi if [[ \$FST =~ ext ]] ; then mkfs.\${FST} -Fq -b \${BLKSZ} \$DEV2 elif [[ \$FST =~ xfs ]] ; then mkfs.\${FST} -fq -b size=\${BLKSZ} \$DEV2 fi if test \$? -ne 0 ; then echo "mkfs \$DEV2 failed" exit 1 fi mount \$DEV1 \$MNT1 if test \$? -ne 0 ; then echo "mount \$DEV1 failed" exit 1 fi mount \$DEV2 \$MNT2 if test \$? -ne 0 ; then echo "mount \$DEV2 failed" exit 1 fi pushd \$3 || exit 1 cat > local.config <<EOF TEST_DEV=\$DEV1 TEST_DIR=\$MNT1 SCRATCH_MNT=\$MNT2 SCRATCH_DEV=\$DEV2 EOF i=0 while [ \$i -lt 50 ] ; do ./check \$2 echo \$i ((i=\$i+1)) done popd EOFF git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git cd xfstests-dev make -j2 && make install || exit 1 cd - sh -x ./fst.sh xfs generic/269 xfstests-dev > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>