An async dio write to a sparse file can generate a lot of extents and when we unlink this file (using rm), the kernel can be busy in umapping and freeing those extents as part of transaction processing. Add cond_resched() in xfs_defer_finish_noroll() to avoid soft lockups messages. Here is a call trace of such soft lockup. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s! [rm:81335] CPU: 1 PID: 81335 Comm: rm Kdump: loaded Tainted: G L X 5.14.21-150500.53-default NIP [c00800001b174768] xfs_extent_busy_trim+0xc0/0x2a0 [xfs] LR [c00800001b1746f4] xfs_extent_busy_trim+0x4c/0x2a0 [xfs] Call Trace: 0xc0000000a8268340 (unreliable) xfs_alloc_compute_aligned+0x5c/0x150 [xfs] xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_size+0x1dc/0x8c0 [xfs] xfs_alloc_ag_vextent+0x17c/0x1c0 [xfs] xfs_alloc_fix_freelist+0x274/0x4b0 [xfs] xfs_free_extent_fix_freelist+0x84/0xe0 [xfs] __xfs_free_extent+0xa0/0x240 [xfs] xfs_trans_free_extent+0x6c/0x140 [xfs] xfs_defer_finish_noroll+0x2b0/0x650 [xfs] xfs_inactive_truncate+0xe8/0x140 [xfs] xfs_fs_destroy_inode+0xdc/0x320 [xfs] destroy_inode+0x6c/0xc0 do_unlinkat+0x1fc/0x410 sys_unlinkat+0x58/0xb0 system_call_exception+0x15c/0x330 system_call_common+0xec/0x250 Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c index c13276095cc0..cb185b97447d 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c @@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ xfs_defer_finish_noroll( error = xfs_defer_finish_one(*tp, dfp); if (error && error != -EAGAIN) goto out_shutdown; + cond_resched(); } /* Requeue the paused items in the outgoing transaction. */ -- 2.44.0
