Re: [PATCH 0/6 v5.1] cfq-iosched: Introduce CFQ group hierarchicalscheduling and "use_hierarchy" interface

[Vivek Goyal]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:16:18PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:55:32AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
> > Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:01:35AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
> > >> Hi
> > >>
> > >> I rebase this series on top of *for-next* branch, it will make merging life easier.
> > >>
> > >> Previously, I posted a patchset to add support of CFQ group hierarchical scheduling
> > >> in the way that it puts all CFQ queues in a hidden group and schedules with other 
> > >> CFQ group under their parent. The patchset is available here,
> > >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/30
> > > 
> > > Gui,
> > > 
> > > I was running some tests (iostest) with these patches and my system crashed
> > > after a while.
> > > 
> > > To be precise I was running "brrmmap" test of iostest.
> > 
> > Vivek,
> > 
> > I simply run iostest with brrmmap mode, I can't reproduce this bug.
> > Would you give more details.
> > Can you tell me the iostest command line options?
> 
> iostest /dev/dm-1 -G --nrgrp 4 -m 8 --cgtime --io_serviced --dequeue --total
> 
> I was actually trying to run all the workloads defined but after running
> 2 workloads it crashed on 3rd workload.
> 
> Now I tried to re-run brrmmap and it did not crash. So I am trying to run
> all the inbuilt workloads again.
> 
> > Did you enable use_hierarchy in root group?
> 
> No I did not. Trying to test the flat setup first.

Again was running above job and after 3 workloads it ran into a different
BUG_ON().

Thanks
Vivek

login: [277063.539001] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[277063.539001] kernel BUG at block/cfq-iosched.c:1407!
[277063.539001] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[277063.539001] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/dm-1/queue/scheduler
[277063.539001] CPU 2 
[277063.539001] Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[277063.539001] 
[277063.539001] Pid: 24628, comm: iostest Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #3 0A98h/HP xw8600 Workstation
[277063.539001] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8121c6f0>]  [<ffffffff8121c6f0>] cfq_put_cfqg+0x13/0xc8
[277063.539001] RSP: 0018:ffff880129a81d48  EFLAGS: 00010046
[277063.539001] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880135e4b800 RCX: ffff88012b9d8ed0
[277063.539001] RDX: ffff880135e4be30 RSI: ffff880135070c00 RDI: ffff880135070c00
[277063.539001] RBP: ffff880129a81d58 R08: ffff880135e4bbc8 R09: ffffffff81ad76d0
[277063.539001] R10: ffff880129a81d48 R11: ffff880129a81d78 R12: ffff880135e4bc18
[277063.539001] R13: ffff880135e4bbc8 R14: ffff8801359c3020 R15: ffff880135033310
[277063.539001] FS:  00007f1329ed4700(0000) GS:ffff8800bfc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[277063.539001] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[277063.539001] CR2: 0000000000b89c08 CR3: 00000001230a5000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[277063.539001] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[277063.539001] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[277063.539001] Process iostest (pid: 24628, threadinfo ffff880129a80000, task ffff880131394a60)
[277063.539001] Stack:
[277063.539001]  ffff880135e4b800 ffff880135e4b800 ffff880129a81d68 ffffffff8121d0a0
[277063.539001]  ffff880129a81db8 ffffffff8121d6b6 ffff880133af1850 ffff880135070c00
[277063.539001]  ffff880129a81db8 ffff88012c908900 ffff88012c908958 ffff880133af1840
[277063.539001] Call Trace:
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff8121d0a0>] cfq_destroy_cfqg+0x45/0x47
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff8121d6b6>] cfq_exit_queue+0xcc/0x164
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff81209f19>] elevator_exit+0x2a/0x47
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff8120a8cc>] elevator_change+0x12f/0x1b7
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff8120a976>] elv_iosched_store+0x22/0x4c
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff812111f2>] queue_attr_store+0x6a/0x89
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff8113e093>] sysfs_write_file+0xfc/0x138
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff810e9fd4>] vfs_write+0xa9/0x105
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff810ea0e9>] sys_write+0x45/0x6c
[277063.539001]  [<ffffffff8100293b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[277063.539001] Code: 75 09 48 85 db 0f 85 77 ff ff ff 41 5c 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 53 48 83 ec 08 8b 87 20 03 00 00 85 c0 7f 04 <0f> 0b eb fe ff c8 85 c0 89 87 20 03 00 00 0f 85 9d 00 00 00 4c 
[277063.539001] RIP  [<ffffffff8121c6f0>] cfq_put_cfqg+0x13/0xc8
[277063.539001]  RSP <ffff880129a81d48>
[277063.539001] ---[ end trace d7596ee55221d6a7 ]---
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