Hi Darrick, the current xfs tree seems to easily cause sotlockups in generic/175 (and a few other tests, but not as reproducible) for me. This is on 20GB 4k block size images on a VM with 4 CPUs and 4G of RAM. Trace below generic/175 files ... [ 1815.804060] run fstests generic/175 at 2019-10-25 08:32 [ 1816.168474] XFS (vdb): Mounting V5 Filesystem [ 1816.674372] XFS (vdb): Ending clean mount [ 1816.679621] Mounted xfs file system at /mnt/test supports timestamps until 2) [ 1817.023736] XFS (vdc): Mounting V5 Filesystem [ 1817.031661] XFS (vdc): Ending clean mount [ 1817.035755] Mounted xfs file system at /mnt/scratch supports timestamps unti) [ 1817.061998] XFS (vdc): Unmounting Filesystem [ 1817.278028] XFS (vdc): Mounting V5 Filesystem [ 1817.285522] XFS (vdc): Ending clean mount [ 1817.289734] Mounted xfs file system at /mnt/scratch supports timestamps unti) [ 1965.113511] XFS (vdc): Unmounting Filesystem [ 1965.505196] XFS (vdc): Mounting V5 Filesystem [ 1965.898141] XFS (vdc): Ending clean mount [ 1965.903121] Mounted xfs file system at /mnt/scratch supports timestamps unti) [ 2122.950581] XFS (vdb): Unmounting Filesystem [ 2148.474472] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [xfs_scrub:161] [ 2148.475763] Modules linked in: [ 2148.476389] irq event stamp: 41692326 [ 2148.477095] hardirqs last enabled at (41692325): [<ffffffff8232c3b7>] _raw_0 [ 2148.478878] hardirqs last disabled at (41692326): [<ffffffff81001c5a>] trace0 [ 2148.480493] softirqs last enabled at (41684994): [<ffffffff8260031f>] __do_e [ 2148.481977] softirqs last disabled at (41684987): [<ffffffff81127d8c>] irq_e0 [ 2148.483306] CPU: 3 PID: 16189 Comm: xfs_scrub Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #30 [ 2148.484391] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.124 [ 2148.485755] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x39/0x40 [ 2148.486699] Code: 89 f3 be 01 00 00 00 e8 d5 3a e5 fe 48 89 ef e8 ed 87 e5 f2 [ 2148.489710] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000233f970 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffff3 [ 2148.491004] RAX: ffff88813b398040 RBX: 0000000000000286 RCX: 0000000000000006 [ 2148.492160] RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffff88813b3988c0 RDI: ffff88813b398040 [ 2148.493313] RBP: ffff888137958640 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 2148.494466] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffea00042b0c00 [ 2148.495600] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88810ac32308 R15: ffff8881376fc040 [ 2148.497119] FS: 00007f6113dea700(0000) GS:ffff88813bb80000(0000) knlGS:00000 [ 2148.498606] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 2148.499553] CR2: 00007f6113de8ff8 CR3: 000000012f290000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 2148.500718] Call Trace: [ 2148.501145] free_debug_processing+0x1dd/0x240 [ 2148.501897] ? xchk_ag_btcur_free+0x76/0xb0 [ 2148.502616] __slab_free+0x231/0x410 [ 2148.503206] ? mark_held_locks+0x48/0x70 [ 2148.503863] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x37/0x40 [ 2148.504698] ? debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x110/0x1d7 [ 2148.505511] ? xchk_ag_btcur_free+0x76/0xb0 [ 2148.506197] kmem_cache_free+0x30e/0x360 [ 2148.506920] xchk_ag_btcur_free+0x76/0xb0 [ 2148.507642] xchk_ag_free+0x10/0x80 [ 2148.508254] xchk_bmap_iextent_xref.isra.14+0xd9/0x120 [ 2148.509228] xchk_bmap_iextent+0x187/0x210 [ 2148.510000] xchk_bmap+0x2e0/0x3b0 [ 2148.510643] xfs_scrub_metadata+0x2e7/0x500 [ 2148.511421] xfs_ioc_scrub_metadata+0x4a/0xa0 [ 2148.512166] xfs_file_ioctl+0x58a/0xcd0 [ 2148.512793] ? __lock_acquire+0x252/0x1470 [ 2148.513485] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90 [ 2148.514125] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa0/0x6f0 [ 2148.514730] ? __fget+0x101/0x1e0 [ 2148.515279] ksys_ioctl+0x5b/0x90 [ 2148.515834] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x11/0x20 [ 2148.516464] do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x1a0 [ 2148.517077] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe [ 2148.517921] RIP: 0033:0x7f6114a08f07 [ 2148.518525] Code: b3 66 90 48 8b 05 81 5f 2c 00 64 c7 00 26 00 00 00 48 c7 c8 [ 2148.521539] RSP: 002b:00007f6113de97e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000 [ 2148.522781] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000b RCX: 00007f6114a08f07 [ 2148.523965] RDX: 00007f6113de9940 RSI: 00000000c040583c RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 2148.525128] RBP: 00007f6113de9940 R08: 000000000000000e R09: 000055761ead0256 [ 2148.526284] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff7c3f41f0 [ 2148.527605] R13: 00007fff7c3f4050 R14: 00007f6113de9800 R15: 0000000000000006 Message from syslogd@localhost at Oct 25 08:43:15 ... kernel:[ 2148.474472] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [xfs_s] [ 2149.498479] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU [ 2149.499799] rcu: 3-....: (6486 ticks this GP) idle=662/1/0x4000000000000 [ 2149.502054] (t=6500 jiffies g=455813 q=201) [ 2149.503003] NMI backtrace for cpu 3 [ 2149.503787] CPU: 3 PID: 16189 Comm: xfs_scrub Tainted: G L 5.0 [ 2149.505599] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.124 [ 2149.507451] Call Trace: [ 2149.508009] <IRQ> [ 2149.508473] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [ 2149.509170] nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold.6+0x13/0x50 [ 2149.510184] ? lapic_can_unplug_cpu.cold.31+0x3e/0x3e [ 2149.511301] nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x8b/0x98 [ 2149.512400] rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x8c/0xb8 [ 2149.513322] rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold.91+0x1c0/0x3c0 [ 2149.514418] ? tick_sched_do_timer+0x50/0x50 [ 2149.515367] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x4d/0x60 [ 2149.516416] ? tick_sched_do_timer+0x50/0x50 [ 2149.517368] update_process_times+0x1f/0x50 [ 2149.518334] tick_sched_handle+0x1d/0x50 [ 2149.519205] tick_sched_timer+0x32/0x70 [ 2149.520063] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x119/0x3e0 [ 2149.521035] hrtimer_interrupt+0xef/0x200 [ 2149.521950] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7c/0x1f0 [ 2149.522980] apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 [ 2149.523862] </IRQ> [ 2149.524297] RIP: 0010:__slab_alloc.constprop.93+0x4f/0x60 [ 2149.525475] Code: 44 89 e6 e8 13 fa ff ff f6 c7 02 48 89 c5 75 13 53 9d e8 f0 [ 2149.529618] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000233f8f0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffff3 [ 2149.531338] RAX: ffff88813b398040 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000006 [ 2149.532929] RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffff88813b3988c0 RDI: ffff88813b398040 [ 2149.534510] RBP: ffff888109016d28 R08: ffff8881376fc5c0 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 2149.536078] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000002dc0 [ 2149.537707] R13: ffffffff816990d6 R14: ffff88813bbb1780 R15: ffffffff816a271b [ 2149.539282] ? xfs_buf_item_init+0x6b/0x220 [ 2149.540218] ? kmem_zone_alloc+0x96/0x1a0 [ 2149.541115] ? kmem_zone_alloc+0x96/0x1a0 [ 2149.542018] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1e2/0x220 [ 2149.542907] ? xfs_buf_item_init+0x6b/0x220 [ 2149.543844] kmem_zone_alloc+0x96/0x1a0 [ 2149.544705] xfs_buf_item_init+0x6b/0x220 [ 2149.545610] _xfs_trans_bjoin+0x26/0xf0 [ 2149.546468] xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x17f/0x5f0 [ 2149.547481] xfs_read_agi+0xb1/0x1c0 [ 2149.548290] xfs_ialloc_read_agi+0x45/0x170 [ 2149.549250] xchk_ag_read_headers+0x29/0xa0 [ 2149.550204] xchk_ag_init+0x1c/0x30 [ 2149.550988] xchk_bmap_iextent_xref.isra.14+0x48/0x120 [ 2149.552135] xchk_bmap_iextent+0x187/0x210 [ 2149.553061] xchk_bmap+0x2e0/0x3b0 [ 2149.553847] xfs_scrub_metadata+0x2e7/0x500 [ 2149.554727] xfs_ioc_scrub_metadata+0x4a/0xa0 [ 2149.555618] xfs_file_ioctl+0x58a/0xcd0 [ 2149.556496] ? __lock_acquire+0x252/0x1470 [ 2149.557460] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90 [ 2149.558342] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa0/0x6f0 [ 2149.559124] ? __fget+0x101/0x1e0 [ 2149.559880] ksys_ioctl+0x5b/0x90 [ 2149.560635] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x11/0x20 [ 2149.561481] do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x1a0 [ 2149.562300] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe [ 2149.563426] RIP: 0033:0x7f6114a08f07 [ 2149.564226] Code: b3 66 90 48 8b 05 81 5f 2c 00 64 c7 00 26 00 00 00 48 c7 c8 [ 2149.568334] RSP: 002b:00007f6113de97e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000 [ 2149.570071] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000b RCX: 00007f6114a08f07 [ 2149.571718] RDX: 00007f6113de9940 RSI: 00000000c040583c RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 2149.573367] RBP: 00007f6113de9940 R08: 000000000000000e R09: 000055761ead0256 [ 2149.574984] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fff7c3f41f0 [ 2149.576633] R13: 00007fff7c3f4050 R14: 00007f6113de9800 R15: 0000000000000006