Hi Brian, Thanks for your quick reply. I repeated the test & trace-pipe is constantly filled with this: xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.546491: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.546492: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.546493: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.596491: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.596492: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.596494: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.646497: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.646498: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.646500: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.696467: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.696468: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.696468: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.746548: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.746550: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.746550: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.796479: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.796480: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.796480: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.846467: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 24890.846468: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] while regular activity seems to happen on other inodes/kworker threads kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811474: xfs_writepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x1801061 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 0 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811477: xfs_invalidatepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x1801061 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 1000 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811478: xfs_releasepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x1801061 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 0 delalloc 0 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811482: xfs_writepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x4017bdf pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 0 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811482: xfs_invalidatepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x4017bdf pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 1000 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811483: xfs_releasepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x4017bdf pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 0 delalloc 0 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811485: xfs_writepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x68048c3 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 0 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811486: xfs_invalidatepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x68048c3 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 1000 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.811486: xfs_releasepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x68048c3 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x1aebbc offset 0 length 0 delalloc 0 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.812381: xfs_writepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x1805e37 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x68470 offset 0 length 0 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.812382: xfs_invalidatepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x1805e37 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x68470 offset 0 length 1000 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.812382: xfs_releasepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x1805e37 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x68470 offset 0 length 0 delalloc 0 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.812385: xfs_writepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x4019c95 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x68470 offset 0 length 0 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 kworker/u8:4-27691 [001] ...1 24895.812385: xfs_invalidatepage: dev 253:10 ino 0x4019c95 pgoff 0x29000 size 0x68470 offset 0 length 1000 delalloc 1 unwritten 0 looks like xfsaild is not able to take lock until hung-task timeout kicks in xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.649468: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.649469: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.649469: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.699478: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.699516: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.699517: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.749471: xfs_ilock_nowait: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.749478: xfs_iunlock: dev 253:10 ino 0xc0 flags ILOCK_SHARED caller xfs_inode_item_push [xfs] xfsaild/dm-10-3335 [003] ...2 25247.749479: xfs_ail_flushing: dev 253:10 lip 0xffff8800a9f437b8 lsn 1/38624 type XFS_LI_INODE flags IN_AIL Please let me know how to debug this further. Thanks. --Shyam -----Original Message----- From: Brian Foster [mailto:bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 22 March 2016 17:49 To: Shyam Kaushik Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx; Alex Lyakas Subject: Re: XFS hung task in xfs_ail_push_all_sync() when unmounting FS after disk failure/recovery On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:51:39PM +0530, Shyam Kaushik wrote: > Hi XFS developers, > > We are seeing the following issue with XFS on kernel 3.18.19. > > We have XFS mounted over a raw disk. Disk was pulled out manually. There > were async writes on files that were errored like this > ... > > And XFS hit metadata & Log IO errors that it decides to shutdown: > > Mar 16 16:03:22 host0 kernel: [ 4637.351841] XFS (dm-29): metadata I/O > error: block 0x3a27fbd0 ("xlog_iodone") error 5 numblks 64 > Mar 16 16:03:22 host0 kernel: [ 4637.352820] XFS(dm-29): SHUTDOWN!!! > old_flags=0x0 new_flags=0x2 > Mar 16 16:03:22 host0 kernel: [ 4637.353187] XFS (dm-29): Log I/O Error > Detected. Shutting down filesystem ... > Later the drive was re-inserted back. After the drive was re-inserted, XFS > was attempted to be unmounted > > Mar 16 16:16:53 host0 controld: [2557] [ ] umount[202] > : umount(/sdisk/vol5b0, xfs) > > But nothing happens except for the 30-secs xfs_log_force errors that keeps > repeating > ... > > This problem doesn't happen consistently, but happens periodically with a > drive failure/recovery followed by XFS unmount. I couldn't find this issue > fixed in later kernels. Can you please suggest how I can debug this issue > further? > Similar problems have been reproduced due to racy/incorrect EFI/EFD object tracking, which are internal data structures associated with freeing extents. What happens if you enable tracepoints while the fs is in this hung unmount state? # trace-cmd start -e "xfs:*" # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe Brian > Thanks! > > --Shyam > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs