On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:23:11AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:46:14 -0800 > Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 1/20/2012 10:56 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > What I'm finding though is that if I stop and start nfsd multiple > > > times, then I eventually get a warning like this on start: > > > > > > [ 5157.128514] WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:262 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0() > > > [ 5157.128742] Hardware name: Bochs > > > [ 5157.128742] ODEBUG: activate not available (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: stub_timer+0x0/0x20 > > > [ 5157.128742] Modules linked in: nfsd(O) nfs_acl auth_rpcgss lockd sunrpc floppy virtio_net i2c_piix4 i2c_core virtio_balloon joydev pcspkr virtio_blk [last unloaded: nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] Pid: 1312, comm: rpc.nfsd Tainted: G W O 3.3.0-rc1+ #1 > > > [ 5157.128742] Call Trace: > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff8106135f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff81061456>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff8132ba2c>] debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff81070db0>] ? timer_debug_hint+0x10/0x10 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff8132c02b>] debug_object_activate+0xfb/0x190 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff81072728>] ? lock_timer_base.isra.24+0x38/0x70 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff81074676>] mod_timer+0xf6/0x450 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff810749e8>] add_timer+0x18/0x20 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff8108168e>] queue_delayed_work_on+0xbe/0x140 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff81084441>] queue_delayed_work+0x21/0x40 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa006e568>] rpc_queue_upcall+0xe8/0x100 [sunrpc] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa012a121>] __cld_pipe_upcall+0x61/0xc0 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa012ad98>] nfsd4_cld_init+0x48/0x140 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa012b22a>] nfsd4_client_tracking_init+0x2a/0xc0 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff8169797e>] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa01266fa>] nfs4_state_start+0x1a/0x100 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa01028c5>] nfsd_svc+0x135/0x200 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa0103df0>] ? write_maxblksize+0x130/0x130 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa0103e6d>] write_threads+0x7d/0xd0 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff811dd16a>] ? simple_transaction_get+0xca/0xe0 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffffa0102ee7>] nfsctl_transaction_write+0x57/0x90 [nfsd] > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff811b4c9f>] vfs_write+0xaf/0x190 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff811b4fdd>] sys_write+0x4d/0x90 > > > [ 5157.128742] [<ffffffff816a3469>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > > > This one is telling you that the timer you're about to run hasn't been > > registered with debug_objects. Most likely the work item hasn't been > > initialized properly and so it hasn't had INIT_DELAYED_WORK() called on it. > > > > > > > > ...or this on stop: > > > > > > [ 5200.804410] WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:262 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0() > > > [ 5200.808205] Hardware name: Bochs > > > [ 5200.810121] ODEBUG: assert_init not available (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: stub_timer+0x0/0x20 > > > [ 5200.812734] Modules linked in: nfsd(O) nfs_acl auth_rpcgss lockd sunrpc floppy virtio_net i2c_piix4 i2c_core virtio_balloon joydev pcspkr virtio_blk [last unloaded: nfsd] > > > [ 5200.821596] Pid: 1394, comm: nfsd Tainted: G W O 3.3.0-rc1+ #1 > > > [ 5200.822409] Call Trace: > > > [ 5200.822726] [<ffffffff8106135f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 > > > [ 5200.823509] [<ffffffff81061456>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 > > > [ 5200.824243] [<ffffffff8132ba2c>] debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0 > > > [ 5200.824935] [<ffffffff81070db0>] ? timer_debug_hint+0x10/0x10 > > > [ 5200.825665] [<ffffffff8132c543>] debug_object_assert_init+0xe3/0x120 > > > [ 5200.826474] [<ffffffff810737b4>] del_timer+0x24/0x1b0 > > > [ 5200.827129] [<ffffffff81085314>] __cancel_work_timer+0x34/0x140 > > > [ 5200.827829] [<ffffffff81085432>] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x12/0x20 > > > [ 5200.832905] [<ffffffffa006e430>] rpc_unlink+0x1e0/0x230 [sunrpc] > > > [ 5200.833716] [<ffffffffa012a195>] nfsd4_remove_cld_pipe+0x15/0x40 [nfsd] > > > [ 5200.834558] [<ffffffffa012b2e0>] nfsd4_client_tracking_exit+0x20/0x30 [nfsd] > > > [ 5200.835434] [<ffffffffa0126984>] nfs4_state_shutdown+0x1a4/0x1c0 [nfsd] > > > [ 5200.836271] [<ffffffffa010219a>] nfsd_last_thread+0x2a/0x60 [nfsd] > > > [ 5200.837045] [<ffffffffa005f66c>] svc_destroy+0x5c/0x140 [sunrpc] > > > [ 5200.837778] [<ffffffffa005f9f6>] svc_exit_thread+0xa6/0xb0 [sunrpc] > > > [ 5200.838545] [<ffffffffa0102123>] nfsd+0x123/0x170 [nfsd] > > > [ 5200.839221] [<ffffffffa0102000>] ? 0xffffffffa0101fff > > > [ 5200.839820] [<ffffffff8108a747>] kthread+0xb7/0xc0 > > > [ 5200.840431] [<ffffffff816a48b4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > > > [ 5200.850883] [<ffffffff8169acf4>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13 > > > [ 5200.851654] [<ffffffff8108a690>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x1a0/0x1a0 > > > [ 5200.852418] [<ffffffff816a48b0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 > > > > This is similar. Now you're deleting a timer that debug_objects doesn't > > know about. > > > > > > > > The problem is that even after staring at this code for a while, I'm > > > still clueless as to what this is telling me. It doesn't happen every > > > time either, so maybe there's a race of some sort involved. > > > > > > It's possible that my patch is broken and doing something wrong, but > > > I'm starting not to think so. I'm not really using timers directly -- > > > I'm using rpc_pipefs, which queues a delayed job to a workqueue, and > > > that is manipulating the timer. The delayed_work (and hence the timer) > > > are part of an rpc_inode. > > > > > > Can anyone shed a little light on what this is complaining about? > > > > > > > Do you have workqueue debugging enabled too (DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK)? I > > would hope that work item debugging would say the same things and then > > we would know that the work item itself wasn't initialized properly. > > (adding linux-nfs to cc list...) > > Ok, I think I sort of see what's happening, but I'm not sure if it's a > bug in the debug objects code or something else. To answer the question > that I didn't before, the kernels I've been testing have this set: > > CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK=y > > ...so workqueue debugging is on but I haven't seen any messages that > come from it AFAICT. The rpc_inode objects have their delayed_work > fields initialized via a slab "constructor". Here's the rpc_inode_cache > creation call: > > rpc_inode_cachep = kmem_cache_create("rpc_inode_cache", > sizeof(struct rpc_inode), > 0, (SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT| > SLAB_MEM_SPREAD), > init_once); > > ...and the init_once() routine does this: > > INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rpci->queue_timeout, > rpc_timeout_upcall_queue); > > On the first use of an rpc_inode object, everything works fine. I think > the problem comes in when rpc_inode objects get recycled without the > INIT_DELAYED_WORK() getting called on it again. > > Before the object is freed it gets cancel_delayed_work_sync() called on > it, but that's apparently not enough to convince the debugobjects code > that it's already correctly initialized. As a Q&D check, the following > patch seems to stop the warnings. Is there some better way to do this > that doesn't require the reinitialization of the delayed work on each > inode allocation? If this is debug objects false positive, it should be rather fixed in debug object code itself, not workaround in nfs code, but I do not have any idea how to do this. Stanislaw > --- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c > +++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c > @@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ rpc_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) > rpci = (struct rpc_inode *)kmem_cache_alloc(rpc_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); > if (!rpci) > return NULL; > + > + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rpci->queue_timeout, rpc_timeout_upcall_queue); > return &rpci->vfs_inode; > } > > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html