Re: xfs trace in 4.4.2 / also in 4.3.3 WARNING fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:1232 xfs_vm_releasepage

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On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 01:17:15PM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> 
> Am 24.03.2016 um 12:17 schrieb Brian Foster:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 09:15:15AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> >>
> >> Am 24.03.2016 um 09:10 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
> >>>
> >>> Am 23.03.2016 um 15:07 schrieb Brian Foster:
> >>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 02:28:03PM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> >>>>> sorry new one the last one got mangled. Comments inside.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Am 05.03.2016 um 23:48 schrieb Dave Chinner:
> >>>>>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:03:42PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 09:02:06PM +0100, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Am 04.03.2016 um 20:13 schrieb Brian Foster:
> >>>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 07:47:16PM +0100, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> Am 20.02.2016 um 19:02 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Am 20.02.2016 um 15:45 schrieb Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 09:02:28AM +0100, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> >>>> ...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This has happened again on 8 different hosts in the last 24 hours
> >>>>> running 4.4.6.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All of those are KVM / Qemu hosts and are doing NO I/O except the normal
> >>>>> OS stuff as the VMs have remote storage. So no database, no rsync on
> >>>>> those hosts - just the OS doing nearly nothing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All those show:
> >>>>> [153360.287040] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 109 at fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:1234
> >>>>> xfs_vm_releasepage+0xe2/0xf0()
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Ok, well at this point the warning isn't telling us anything beyond
> >>>> you're reproducing the problem. We can't really make progress without
> >>>> more information. We don't necessarily know what application or
> >>>> operations caused this by the time it occurs, but perhaps knowing what
> >>>> file is affected could give us a hint.
> >>>>
> >>>> We have the xfs_releasepage tracepoint, but that's unconditional and so
> >>>> might generate a lot of noise by default. Could you enable the
> >>>> xfs_releasepage tracepoint and hunt for instances where delalloc != 0?
> >>>> E.g., we could leave a long running 'trace-cmd record -e
> >>>> "xfs:xfs_releasepage" <cmd>' command on several boxes and wait for the
> >>>> problem to occur. Alternatively (and maybe easier), run 'trace-cmd start
> >>>> -e "xfs:xfs_releasepage"' and leave something like 'cat
> >>>> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe | grep -v "delalloc 0" >
> >>>> ~/trace.out' running to capture instances.
> >>
> >> Isn't the trace a WARN_ONCE? So it does not reoccur or can i check the
> >> it in the trace.out even the WARN_ONCE was already triggered?
> >>
> > 
> > The tracepoint is independent from the warning (see
> > xfs_vm_releasepage()), so the tracepoint will fire every invocation of
> > the function regardless of whether delalloc blocks still exist at that
> > point. That creates the need to filter the entries.
> > 
> > With regard to performance, I believe the tracepoints are intended to be
> > pretty lightweight. I don't think it should hurt to try it on a box,
> > observe for a bit and make sure there isn't a huge impact. Note that the
> > 'trace-cmd record' approach will save everything to file, so that's
> > something to consider I suppose.
> 
> Tests / cat is running. Is there any way to test if it works? Or is it
> enough that cat prints stuff from time to time but does not match -v
> delalloc 0
> 

What is it printing where delalloc != 0? You could always just cat
trace_pipe and make sure the event is firing, it's just that I suspect
most entries will have delalloc == unwritten == 0.

Also, while the tracepoint fires independent of the warning, it might
not be a bad idea to restart a system that has already seen the warning
since boot, just to provide some correlation or additional notification
when the problem occurs.

Brian

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