[PATCH] jbd2: fix soft lockup in journal_finish_inode_data_buffers()

From: Ye Bin
Date: Mon Dec 11 2023 - 06:22:16 EST


There's issue when do io test:
WARN: soft lockup - CPU#45 stuck for 11s! [jbd2/dm-2-8:4170]
CPU: 45 PID: 4170 Comm: jbd2/dm-2-8 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1a0
show_stack+0x24/0x30
dump_stack+0xb0/0x100
watchdog_timer_fn+0x254/0x3f8
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x11c/0x380
hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x2f8
arch_timer_handler_phys+0x38/0x58
handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x90/0x248
generic_handle_irq+0x3c/0x58
__handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
gic_handle_irq+0x90/0x320
el1_irq+0xcc/0x180
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1d8/0x320
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x10f4/0x1c78 [jbd2]
kjournald2+0xec/0x2f0 [jbd2]
kthread+0x134/0x138
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

Analyzed informations from vmcore as follows:
(1) There are about 5k+ jbd2_inode in 'commit_transaction->t_inode_list';
(2) Now is processing the 855th jbd2_inode;
(3) JBD2 task has TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag;
(4) There's no pags in address_space around the 855th jbd2_inode;
(5) There are some process is doing drop caches;
(6) Mounted with 'nodioread_nolock' option;
(7) 128 CPUs;

According to informations from vmcore we know 'journal->j_list_lock' spin lock
competition is fierce. So journal_finish_inode_data_buffers() maybe process
slowly. Theoretically, there is scheduling point in the filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors().
However, if inode's address_space has no pages which taged with PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK,
will not call cond_resched(). So may lead to soft lockup.
journal_finish_inode_data_buffers
filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors
__filemap_fdatawait_range
while (index <= end)
nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_range_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, end, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK);
if (!nr_pages)
break; --> If 'nr_pages' is equal zero will break, then will not call cond_resched()
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
cond_resched();

To solve above issue, add scheduling point in the journal_finish_inode_data_buffers();

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/jbd2/commit.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 9bdb377a348f..5e122586e06e 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ static int journal_finish_inode_data_buffers(journal_t *journal,
if (!ret)
ret = err;
}
+ cond_resched();
spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
jinode->i_flags &= ~JI_COMMIT_RUNNING;
smp_mb();
--
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