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;