This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfs: periodically yield scrub threads to the scheduler
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xfs-periodically-yield-scrub-threads-to-the-schedule.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit c14d20357188794b827cde596fdc7cca0f7d8233
Author: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 5 15:33:57 2019 -0800
xfs: periodically yield scrub threads to the scheduler
[ Upstream commit 5d1116d4c6af3e580f1ed0382ca5a94bd65a34cf ]
Christoph Hellwig complained about the following soft lockup warning
when running scrub after generic/175 when preemption is disabled and
slub debugging is enabled:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [xfs_scrub:161]
Modules linked in:
irq event stamp: 41692326
hardirqs last enabled at (41692325): [<ffffffff8232c3b7>] _raw_0
hardirqs last disabled at (41692326): [<ffffffff81001c5a>] trace0
softirqs last enabled at (41684994): [<ffffffff8260031f>] __do_e
softirqs last disabled at (41684987): [<ffffffff81127d8c>] irq_e0
CPU: 3 PID: 16189 Comm: xfs_scrub Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #30
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.124
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x39/0x40
Code: 89 f3 be 01 00 00 00 e8 d5 3a e5 fe 48 89 ef e8 ed 87 e5 f2
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000233f970 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffff3
RAX: ffff88813b398040 RBX: 0000000000000286 RCX: 0000000000000006
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffff88813b3988c0 RDI: ffff88813b398040
RBP: ffff888137958640 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffea00042b0c00
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88810ac32308 R15: ffff8881376fc040
FS: 00007f6113dea700(0000) GS:ffff88813bb80000(0000) knlGS:00000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f6113de8ff8 CR3: 000000012f290000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
free_debug_processing+0x1dd/0x240
__slab_free+0x231/0x410
kmem_cache_free+0x30e/0x360
xchk_ag_btcur_free+0x76/0xb0
xchk_ag_free+0x10/0x80
xchk_bmap_iextent_xref.isra.14+0xd9/0x120
xchk_bmap_iextent+0x187/0x210
xchk_bmap+0x2e0/0x3b0
xfs_scrub_metadata+0x2e7/0x500
xfs_ioc_scrub_metadata+0x4a/0xa0
xfs_file_ioctl+0x58a/0xcd0
do_vfs_ioctl+0xa0/0x6f0
ksys_ioctl+0x5b/0x90
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x11/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
If preemption is disabled, all metadata buffers needed to perform the
scrub are already in memory, and there are a lot of records to check,
it's possible that the scrub thread will run for an extended period of
time without sleeping for IO or any other reason. Then the watchdog
timer or the RCU stall timeout can trigger, producing the backtrace
above.
To fix this problem, call cond_resched() from the scrub thread so that
we back out to the scheduler whenever necessary.
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/common.h b/fs/xfs/scrub/common.h
index 2d4324d12f9a..51ea2ab124b7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/common.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/common.h
@@ -14,8 +14,15 @@
static inline bool
xchk_should_terminate(
struct xfs_scrub *sc,
- int *error)
+ int *error)
{
+ /*
+ * If preemption is disabled, we need to yield to the scheduler every
+ * few seconds so that we don't run afoul of the soft lockup watchdog
+ * or RCU stall detector.
+ */
+ cond_resched();
+
if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
if (*error == 0)
*error = -EAGAIN;
