On 2024/3/21 11:54, Kent Overstreet wrote: > just got this bug report, things wildly backed up in bcachefs and do > some digging and it looks like zswap is to blame > > [10264.128242] sysrq: Show Blocked State > [10264.128268] task:kworker/20:0H state:D stack:0 pid:143 tgid:143 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000 > [10264.128271] Workqueue: bcachefs_io btree_write_submit [bcachefs] > [10264.128295] Call Trace: > [10264.128295] <TASK> > [10264.128297] __schedule+0x3e6/0x1520 > [10264.128301] ? ttwu_do_activate+0x64/0x200 > [10264.128303] schedule+0x32/0xd0 > [10264.128304] schedule_timeout+0x98/0x160 > [10264.128306] ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10 > [10264.128308] io_schedule_timeout+0x50/0x80 > [10264.128309] wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0x7f/0x180 > [10264.128310] submit_bio_wait+0x78/0xb0 > [10264.128313] swap_writepage_bdev_sync+0xf6/0x150 > [10264.128315] ? __pfx_submit_bio_wait_endio+0x10/0x10 > [10264.128317] zswap_writeback_entry+0xf2/0x180 > [10264.128319] shrink_memcg_cb+0xe7/0x2f0 > [10264.128320] ? xa_load+0x8c/0xe0 > [10264.128321] ? __pfx_shrink_memcg_cb+0x10/0x10 > [10264.128322] __list_lru_walk_one+0xb9/0x1d0 > [10264.128324] ? __pfx_shrink_memcg_cb+0x10/0x10 > [10264.128325] list_lru_walk_one+0x5d/0x90 > [10264.128326] zswap_shrinker_scan+0xc4/0x130 > [10264.128327] do_shrink_slab+0x13f/0x360 > [10264.128328] shrink_slab+0x28e/0x3c0 > [10264.128329] shrink_one+0x123/0x1b0 > [10264.128331] shrink_node+0x97e/0xbc0 > [10264.128332] do_try_to_free_pages+0xe7/0x5b0 > [10264.128333] try_to_free_pages+0xe1/0x200 > [10264.128334] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x343/0xde0 > [10264.128337] __alloc_pages+0x32d/0x350 > [10264.128338] allocate_slab+0x400/0x460 > [10264.128339] ___slab_alloc+0x40d/0xa40 > [10264.128341] ? mempool_alloc+0x86/0x1b0 > [10264.128343] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x94/0x2f0 > [10264.128345] ? __schedule+0x3ee/0x1520 > [10264.128345] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e7/0x330 > [10264.128347] ? mempool_alloc+0x86/0x1b0 > [10264.128348] mempool_alloc+0x86/0x1b0 > [10264.128349] bio_alloc_bioset+0x200/0x4f0 > [10264.128351] ? __queue_work.part.0+0x1a5/0x390 > [10264.128352] bio_alloc_clone+0x23/0x60 > [10264.128354] alloc_io+0x26/0xf0 [dm_mod 7e9e6b44df4927f93fb3e4b5c782767396f58382] > [10264.128361] dm_submit_bio+0xb8/0x580 [dm_mod 7e9e6b44df4927f93fb3e4b5c782767396f58382] > [10264.128366] __submit_bio+0xb0/0x170 > [10264.128367] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x159/0x370 > [10264.128368] bch2_submit_wbio_replicas+0x21c/0x3a0 [bcachefs 85f1b9a7a824f272eff794653a06dde1a94439f2] > [10264.128391] btree_write_submit+0x1cf/0x220 [bcachefs 85f1b9a7a824f272eff794653a06dde1a94439f2] > [10264.128406] process_one_work+0x178/0x350 > [10264.128408] worker_thread+0x30f/0x450 > [10264.128409] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 > [10264.128409] kthread+0xe5/0x120 > > dm is using GFP_NOIO for that allocation, so zswap is clearly busted. You are right, and the shrink_control->gfp_mask is not even used in zswap, which would just use GFP_KERNEL in its zswap_writeback_entry(). > > We're already under generic_make_request(), so that submit_bio_wait() > that zswap kicked off is never going to return. > > We need to think about how to add some assertions so that we know > reclaim context is being honoured... > Maybe we could put the reclaim context info in the task_struct? So some assertions can be added in some places. Thanks.