On Nov 25, 2013, at 15:51, Adamson, Andy <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:29 PM, "Adamson, Andy" <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> >> On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:20 PM, "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 15:10, Adamson, Andy <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 2:53 PM, "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 14:27, Adamson, Andy <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:33 PM, "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 13:13, Myklebust, Trond <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 12:57, <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> From: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The state manager is recovering expired state and recovery OPENs are being >>>>>>>>> processed. If kswapd is pruning inodes at the same time, a deadlock can occur >>>>>>>>> when kswapd calls evict_inode on an NFSv4.1 inode with a layout, and the >>>>>>>>> resultant layoutreturn gets an error that the state mangager is to handle, >>>>>>>>> causing the layoutreturn to wait on the (NFS client) cl_rpcwaitq. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> At the same time an open is waiting for the inode deletion to complete in >>>>>>>>> __wait_on_freeing_inode. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> If the open is either the open called by the state manager, or an open from >>>>>>>>> the same open owner that is holding the NFSv4.0 sequence id which causes the >>>>>>>>> OPEN from the state manager to wait for the sequence id on the Seqid_waitqueue, >>>>>>>>> then the state is deadlocked with kswapd. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Do not handle LAYOUTRETURN errors when called from nfs4_evict_inode. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Why are we waiting for recovery in LAYOUTRETURN at all? Layouts are automatically lost when the server reboots or when the lease is otherwise lost. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> IOW: Is there any reason why we need to special-case nfs4_evict_inode? Shouldn’t we just bail out on error in _all_ cases? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> BTW: Is it possible that we might have a similar problem with delegreturn? That too can be called from nfs4_evict_inode… >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, good point. kswapd could be waiting for a delegation to return which has an error along with the same scenario with sys_open and the state manager running. >>>>>> >>>>>> With delegreturn, we most definately want to limit 'no error handling' to the evict inode case. >>>>> >>>>> Ah… I forgot that the delegreturn in nfs4_evict_inode is asynchronous and doesn’t wait for completion, so it shouldn’t be a problem here. >>>> >>>> Except we just changed that to fix a different state manager hang: >>>> >>>> commit 4a82fd7c4e78a1b7a224f9ae8bb7e1fd95f670e0 >>>> Author: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Date: Fri Nov 15 16:36:16 2013 -0500 >>>> >>>> NFSv4 wait on recovery for async session errors >>> >>> Right, but that won’t prevent nfs4_evict_inode from completing, >> >> Ah - I was thinking of the synchronous handlers call to nfs4_wait_clnt_recover - so yes, no problem > > In fact, this issue is NOT an upstream issue! RHEL6.5-pre has nfs4_proc_layoutreturn as as SYNC rpc call, and _that_ is the bug that is fixed upstream. > > Really sorry for the confusion. I'll back port a solution for RHEL6.5 Are you sure? As far as I can tell, the upstream nfs4_proc_layoutreturn is also synchronous. I therefore suspect that we still have the same problem. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- 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