Re: Recipe for creating unlink deadlocks (v2, verified on 4.1-rc3) (resend)

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On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Zygo Blaxell
<ce3g8jdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Apologies for the duplication, if any.  I gave the original, longer
> version 18 hours to appear, and it doesn't seem to have shown up yet.]
>
> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 09:21:02AM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
>> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 11:32:07AM +0100, Filipe David Manana wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Zygo Blaxell
>> > <ce3g8jdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > This is the simplest repro recipe for this that I have found so far.
>> > > It takes only a few minutes for the rm processes to get stuck here:
>> > >
>> > > # cat /proc/28396/stack                                                                                                                                       Thu May  7 18:13:05 2015
>> > >
>> > > [<ffffffff813c8a2d>] lock_extent_bits+0x1ad/0x200
>> > > [<ffffffff813b5dfa>] btrfs_evict_inode+0x17a/0x5e0
>> > > [<ffffffff8123fc68>] evict+0xb8/0x1b0
>> > > [<ffffffff81240813>] iput+0x1f3/0x260
>> > > [<ffffffff81233c68>] do_unlinkat+0x1d8/0x360
>> > > [<ffffffff812346db>] SyS_unlinkat+0x1b/0x40
>> > > [<ffffffff8190024d>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>> > > [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Run these three scripts in a directory that is the top of a subvol:
>
> New versions of these scripts make the results a little more reproducible:
>
>
>         #!/bin/bash
>         set -x
>         # Script #1:  randomly create or delete snapshots
>         # v2:  no significant changes
>         while date; do
>                 if [ $[RANDOM%2] = 0 ]; then
>                         btrfs sub snap . snaps-$RANDOM
>                 else
>                         for x in snaps-*; do
>                                 btrfs sub del $x
>                                 break
>                         done
>                         btrfs sub sync .
>                 fi
>                 sleep 1
>         done
>
>
>         #!/bin/bash
>         # Script #2:  create a bunch of files of random sizes
>         # v2:  create our own test file instead of using Chromium's 1.6M copyright file
>         while echo -ne "\r$(date)"; do
>                 [ -s tester ] || head -c 1024k /dev/urandom > tester
>                 d=$[RANDOM%9]/$[RANDOM%9]/$[RANDOM%9]/$[RANDOM%9]
>                 mkdir -p ${d%/*}
>                 head -c $[RANDOM%1024]k tester > $d
>         done
>
>
>
>         #!/bin/bash
>         set -x
>         # Script #3:  read and immediately delete all the files
>         # v3:  let script #2 create some more files
>         while date; do
>                 find *[0-9] -type f -exec sh -c 'cat >/dev/null "$@"' -- {} \; -exec rm -fv {} \;
>
>                 # Allow some files to build up between runs
>                 sleep 1m
>
>                 # Make sure we are not reading from cache.
>                 # These are not strictly necessary but they reduce
>                 # the repro time by a minute or so.
>                 sync
>                 sysctl vm.drop_caches=1
>         done
>
>
>> > Tried that for over 3 hours, on a 4.1-rc2 kernel with a few patches
>> > from the list, with several combinations of mount options (compress,
>> > autodefrag, nodatacow, etc) and didn't got any issue.
>> >
>> > What kernel version are you testing? Any specific combination of mount options?
>>
>> I've seen it on the field on versions from v3.15 to v4.0.1.  The test I did
>> yesterday was v4.0.1.
>
> I just verified that the issue is still present in v4.1-rc3.  Tested on
> bare hardware and kvm, and a mix of AMD and Intel CPUs.
>
> The issue appears immediately after the test file collection becomes too
> large to fit in the host RAM.  In my test environment I used RAM sizes
> from 3GB to 16GB with a 16GB btrfs filesystem.  The test ran without
> incident until the filesystem used space (reported by df) exceeded the
> RAM size, then rm hung a few seconds later.
>
> If I reboot after an rm hang and run scripts #1 and #3 (snapshots and
> rm), it hangs almost immediately as soon as subvol delete and rm are
> running at the same time.
>
> If script #3 (remove files) runs too quickly (i.e. your disks are too
> fast ;), try delaying script #3 until after #1 and #2 have accumulated
> enough data to exceed RAM size.
>
> I used default mkfs and mount options this time.  For kvm tests I used
> a freshly debootstrapped Debian Jessie, and for the bare hardware tests
> I used some random Debian Wheezy systems.
>
> My kernel config file, logs, and repro scripts are available at:
>
>         http://furryterror.org/~zblaxell/tmp/.ma12/
>
> This is part of the kernel log after a typical failure (the whole thing
> is available at the URL above):
>
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.290141] rm              D ffff8800ab8ebc78     0  4994  23006 0x00000000
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.329903]  ffff8800ab8ebc78 ffffffff814291b8 00000000ffffffff ffff8800aa831000
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.330512]  ffff8800ac4ed000 00000000000b0000 ffff8800ab8ec000 ffff8800acd670f0
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.331090]  ffff8800acd670d0 00000000000b0000 ffff8800aa62dae0 ffff8800ab8ebc98
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.400161] Call Trace:
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.401020]  [<ffffffff814291b8>] ? lock_extent_bits+0x1a8/0x200
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.462318]  [<ffffffff819a8297>] schedule+0x37/0x90
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.467741]  [<ffffffff814291bd>] lock_extent_bits+0x1ad/0x200
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.468489]  [<ffffffff810dfa30>] ? wait_woken+0xc0/0xc0
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.492572]  [<ffffffff814156ea>] btrfs_evict_inode+0x19a/0x760
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.493048]  [<ffffffff8127fc88>] evict+0xb8/0x1b0
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.494419]  [<ffffffff812808fe>] iput+0x2be/0x3e0
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.494598]  [<ffffffff81272cb8>] do_unlinkat+0x208/0x330
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.495086]  [<ffffffff81265cda>] ? SyS_newfstatat+0x2a/0x40
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.495511]  [<ffffffff81566925>] ? lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x12/0x14
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.495750]  [<ffffffff8127359b>] SyS_unlinkat+0x1b/0x40
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.496101]  [<ffffffff819af5b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x7a
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.628063] 1 lock held by rm/4994:
>         May 13 04:59:34 testhost kernel: [  720.628239]  #0:  (sb_writers#3){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff812861f4>] mnt_want_write+0x24/0x50

Thanks. After over 1 hour running these scripts I was able to
reproduce. I'll see if I can figure out why it happens and fix it.



-- 
Filipe David Manana,

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 Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves.
 That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men."
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