From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> After 963 iterations of generic/530, it deadlocked during recovery on a pinned inode cluster buffer like so: XFS (pmem1): Starting recovery (logdev: internal) INFO: task kworker/8:0:306037 blocked for more than 122 seconds. Not tainted 5.17.0-rc6-dgc+ #975 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:kworker/8:0 state:D stack:13024 pid:306037 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000 Workqueue: xfs-inodegc/pmem1 xfs_inodegc_worker Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x30d/0x9e0 schedule+0x55/0xd0 schedule_timeout+0x114/0x160 __down+0x99/0xf0 down+0x5e/0x70 xfs_buf_lock+0x36/0xf0 xfs_buf_find+0x418/0x850 xfs_buf_get_map+0x47/0x380 xfs_buf_read_map+0x54/0x240 xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x1bd/0x490 xfs_imap_to_bp+0x4f/0x70 xfs_iunlink_map_ino+0x66/0xd0 xfs_iunlink_map_prev.constprop.0+0x148/0x2f0 xfs_iunlink_remove_inode+0xf2/0x1d0 xfs_inactive_ifree+0x1a3/0x900 xfs_inode_unlink+0xcc/0x210 xfs_inodegc_worker+0x1ac/0x2f0 process_one_work+0x1ac/0x390 worker_thread+0x56/0x3c0 kthread+0xf6/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> task:mount state:D stack:13248 pid:324509 ppid:324233 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x30d/0x9e0 schedule+0x55/0xd0 schedule_timeout+0x114/0x160 __down+0x99/0xf0 down+0x5e/0x70 xfs_buf_lock+0x36/0xf0 xfs_buf_find+0x418/0x850 xfs_buf_get_map+0x47/0x380 xfs_buf_read_map+0x54/0x240 xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x1bd/0x490 xfs_imap_to_bp+0x4f/0x70 xfs_iget+0x300/0xb40 xlog_recover_process_one_iunlink+0x4c/0x170 xlog_recover_process_iunlinks.isra.0+0xee/0x130 xlog_recover_finish+0x57/0x110 xfs_log_mount_finish+0xfc/0x1e0 xfs_mountfs+0x540/0x910 xfs_fs_fill_super+0x495/0x850 get_tree_bdev+0x171/0x270 xfs_fs_get_tree+0x15/0x20 vfs_get_tree+0x24/0xc0 path_mount+0x304/0xba0 __x64_sys_mount+0x108/0x140 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae </TASK> task:xfsaild/pmem1 state:D stack:14544 pid:324525 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x30d/0x9e0 schedule+0x55/0xd0 io_schedule+0x4b/0x80 xfs_buf_wait_unpin+0x9e/0xf0 __xfs_buf_submit+0x14a/0x230 xfs_buf_delwri_submit_buffers+0x107/0x280 xfs_buf_delwri_submit_nowait+0x10/0x20 xfsaild+0x27e/0x9d0 kthread+0xf6/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 We have the mount process waiting on an inode cluster buffer read, inodegc doing unlink waiting on the same inode cluster buffer, and the AIL push thread blocked in writeback waiting for the inode to become unpinned. What has happened here is that the AIL push thread has raced with the inodegc process modifying, committing and pinning the inode cluster buffer here in xfs_buf_delwri_submit_buffers() here: blk_start_plug(&plug); list_for_each_entry_safe(bp, n, buffer_list, b_list) { if (!wait_list) { if (xfs_buf_ispinned(bp)) { pinned++; continue; } Here >>>>>> if (!xfs_buf_trylock(bp)) continue; Basically, the AIL has found the buffer wasn't pinned and got the lock without blocking, but then the buffer was pinned. This implies the processing here was pre-empted between the pin check and the lock, because the pin count can only be increased while holding the buffer locked. Hence when it has gone to submit the IO, it has blocked waiting for the buffer to be unpinned. With all executing threads now waiting on the buffer to be unpinned, we normally get out of situations like this via the background log worker issuing a log force which will unpinned stuck buffers like this. But at this point in recovery, we haven't started the log worker. In fact, the first thing we do after processing intents and unlinked inodes is *start the log worker*. IOWs, we start it too late to have it break deadlocks like this. Avoid this and any other similar deadlock vectors in intent and unlinked inode recovery by starting the log worker before we recover intents and unlinked inodes. This part of recovery runs as though the filesystem is fully active, so we really should have the same infrastructure running as we normally do at runtime. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c index 89fec9a18c34..ffd928cf9a9a 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c @@ -812,10 +812,9 @@ xfs_log_mount_finish( * mount failure occurs. */ mp->m_super->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE; + xfs_log_work_queue(mp); if (xlog_recovery_needed(log)) error = xlog_recover_finish(log); - if (!error) - xfs_log_work_queue(mp); mp->m_super->s_flags &= ~SB_ACTIVE; evict_inodes(mp->m_super); -- 2.33.0