On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 14:15 -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.
>
> We do have one questionable bug in the NFS changes though. Does this
> patch help at all?
>
> -------------------------------8<---------------------------------
>
> SQUASH: nfs: fix i_version increment when adding a request
>
> NFS treats this value as an opaque value with no flag, so we must
> increment it as such instead of using inode_inc_iversion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
> index a03fbac1f88c..48837b6250e9 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/write.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
> @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static void nfs_inode_add_request(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_page *req)
> spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
> if (!nfs_have_writebacks(inode) &&
> NFS_PROTO(inode)->have_delegation(inode, FMODE_WRITE))
> - inode_inc_iversion(inode);
> + atomic64_inc(&inode->i_version);
> if (likely(!PageSwapCache(req->wb_page))) {
> set_bit(PG_MAPPED, &req->wb_flags);
> SetPagePrivate(req->wb_page);
Sorry for the slow dribble of patches. I found a bug in the ext4 code
too. Might want to try this ext4 patch as well:
----------------------8<-----------------
SQUASH: ext4: use raw API for xattr inode refcounts
This could distort the values otherwise.
(Side Q: Why do we do this across the ctime and iversion like this?)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index ba6fd5439aa4..63656dbafdc4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -295,13 +295,13 @@ ext4_xattr_inode_hash(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, const void *buffer, size_t size)
static u64 ext4_xattr_inode_get_ref(struct inode *ea_inode)
{
return ((u64)ea_inode->i_ctime.tv_sec << 32) |
- (u32) inode_peek_iversion(ea_inode);
+ (u32) inode_peek_iversion_raw(ea_inode);
}
static void ext4_xattr_inode_set_ref(struct inode *ea_inode, u64 ref_count)
{
ea_inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = (u32)(ref_count >> 32);
- inode_set_iversion(ea_inode, ref_count & 0xffffffff);
+ inode_set_iversion_raw(ea_inode, ref_count & 0xffffffff);
}
static u32 ext4_xattr_inode_get_hash(struct inode *ea_inode)
--
2.14.3
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