Re: multi-threads libvmmalloc fork test hang

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Tue Jan 03 2017 - 12:00:04 EST


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 03:37:20PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Thanks for the report. I'll try to reproduce it...
>
> Honza
>
> On Thu 27-10-16 19:22:30, Xiong Zhou wrote:
> > # description
> >
> > nvml test suite vmmalloc_fork test hang.
> >
> > $ ps -eo stat,comm | grep vmma
> > S+ vmmalloc_fork
> > Sl+ vmmalloc_fork
> > Z+ vmmalloc_fork <defunct>
> > Sl+ vmmalloc_fork
> > Z+ vmmalloc_fork <defunct>
> > Z+ vmmalloc_fork <defunct>
> > Sl+ vmmalloc_fork
> > Z+ vmmalloc_fork <defunct>
> > Z+ vmmalloc_fork <defunct>
> > Z+ vmmalloc_fork <defunct>
> >
> > dmesg:
> >
> > [ 250.499097] INFO: task vmmalloc_fork:9805 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> > [ 250.530667] Not tainted 4.9.09fe68ca+ #27
> > [ 250.550901] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> > [ 250.585752] vmmalloc_fork D[ 250.598362] ffffffff8171813c 0 9805 9765 0x00000080
> > [ 250.623445] ffff88075dc68f80[ 250.636052] 0000000000000000 ffff88076058db00 ffff88017c5b0000 ffff880763b19340[ 250.668510] ffffc9000fe1bbb0 ffffffff8171813c ffffc9000fe1bc20 ffffc9000fe1bbe0[ 250.704220] ffffffff82248898 ffff88076058db00 ffffffff82248898Call Trace:
> > [ 250.738382] [<ffffffff8171813c>] ? __schedule+0x21c/0x6a0
> > [ 250.763404] [<ffffffff817185f6>] schedule+0x36/0x80
> > [ 250.786177] [<ffffffff81284471>] get_unlocked_mapping_entry+0xc1/0x120
> > [ 250.815869] [<ffffffff81283810>] ? iomap_dax_rw+0x110/0x110
> > [ 250.841350] [<ffffffff81284c0a>] grab_mapping_entry+0x4a/0x220
> > [ 250.868442] [<ffffffff812851e9>] iomap_dax_fault+0xa9/0x3b0
> > [ 250.894437] [<ffffffffa02b15fe>] xfs_filemap_fault+0xce/0xf0 [xfs]
> > [ 250.922805] [<ffffffff811d3159>] __do_fault+0x79/0x100
> > [ 250.947035] [<ffffffff811d7a2b>] do_fault+0x49b/0x690
> > [ 250.970964] [<ffffffffa02b146c>] ? xfs_filemap_pmd_fault+0x9c/0x160 [xfs]
> > [ 251.001812] [<ffffffff811d94ba>] handle_mm_fault+0x61a/0xa50
> > [ 251.027736] [<ffffffff8106c3da>] __do_page_fault+0x22a/0x4a0
> > [ 251.053700] [<ffffffff8106c680>] do_page_fault+0x30/0x80
> > [ 251.077962] [<ffffffff81003b55>] ? do_syscall_64+0x175/0x180
> > [ 251.103835] [<ffffffff8171e208>] page_fault+0x28/0x30
> >
> >
> > # kernel versions:
> >
> > v4.6 pass in seconds
> > v4.7 hang
> > v4.9-rc1 hang
> > Linus tree to commit 9fe68ca hang
> >
> > bisect points to
> > first bad commit: [ac401cc782429cc8560ce4840b1405d603740917] dax: New fault locking
> >
> > v4.7 with these 3 commits reverted pass:
> > 4d9a2c8 - Jan Kara, 6 months ago : dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection
> > bc2466e - Jan Kara, 6 months ago : dax: Use radix tree entry lock to protect cow faults
> > ac401cc - Jan Kara, 6 months ago : dax: New fault locking
> >
> > # nvml version:
> > https://github.com/pmem/nvml.git
> > to commit:
> > feab4d6f65102139ce460890c898fcad09ce20ae
> >
> > # How reproducible:
> > always
> >
> > # Test steps:
> >
> > <git clone and pmem0 setup>
> >
> > $cd nvml
> > $make install -j64
> >
> > $cat > src/test/testconfig.sh <<EOF
> > PMEM_FS_DIR=/daxmnt
> > NON_PMEM_FS_DIR=/tmp
> > EOF
> >
> > $mkfs.xfs /dev/pmem0
> > $mkdir -p /daxmnt/
> > $mount -o dax /dev/pmem0 /daxmnt/
> >
> > $make -C src/test/vmmalloc_fork/ TEST_TIME=60m clean
> > $make -C src/test/vmmalloc_fork/ TEST_TIME=60m check
> > $umount /daxmnt

As I mentioned in the other thread I was able to reproduce this issue with
v4.10-rc2, and am currently debugging.