Re: r244036 kernel hangs under load.

Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:38:21PM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > .. what was the previous kernel version?
> > >
> > Hopefully Tim has it narrowed down more, but I don't see
> > the hangs on a Sept. 7 kernel from head and I do see them
> > on a Dec. 3 kernel from head. (Don't know the eact rNNNNNN.)
> >
> > It seems to predate my commit (r244008), which was my first
> > concern.
> >
> > I use old single core i386 hardware and can fairly reliably
> > reproduce it by doing a kernel build and a "svn checkout"
> > concurrently. No NFS activity. These are running on a local
> > disk (UFS/FFS). (The kernel I reproduce it on is built via
> > GENERIC for i386. If you want me to start a "binary search"
> > for which rNNNNNN, I can do that, but it will take a while.:-)
> >
> > I can get out into DDB, but I'll admit I don't know enough
> > about it to know where to look;-)
> > Here's some lines from "db> ps", in case they give someone
> > useful information. (I can leave this box sitting in DB for
> > the rest of to-day, in case someone can suggest what I should
> > look for on it.)
> >
> > Just snippets...
> >    Ss pause adjkerntz
> >    DL sdflush [sofdepflush]
> >    RL [syncer]
> >    DL vlruwt [vnlru]
> >    DL psleep [bufdaemon]
> >    RL [pagezero]
> >    DL psleep [vmdaemon]
> >    DL psleep [pagedaemon]
> >    DL ccb_scan [xpt_thrd]
> >    DL waiting_ [sctp_iterator]
> >    DL ctl_work [ctl_thrd]
> >    DL cooling [acpi_cooling0]
> >    DL tzpoll [acpi_thermal]
> >    DL (threaded) [usb]
> >    ...
> >    DL - [yarrow]
> >    DL (threaded) [geom]
> >    D - [g_down]
> >    D - [g_up]
> >    D - [g_event]
> >    RL (threaded) [intr]
> >    I [irq15: ata1]
> >    ...
> >    Run CPU0 [swi6: Giant taskq]
> > --> does this one indicate the CPU is actually running this?
> >    (after a db> cont, wait a while <ctrl><alt><esc> db> ps
> >     it is still the same)
> >    I [swi4: clock]
> >    I [swi1: netisr 0]
> >    I [swi3: vm]
> >    RL [idle: cpu0]
> >    SLs wait [init]
> >    DL audit_wo [audit]
> >    DLs (threaded) [kernel]
> >    D - [deadlkres]
> >    ...
> >    D sched [swapper]
> >
> > I have no idea if this "ps" output helps, unless it indicates
> > that it is looping on the Giant taskq?
> Might be. You could do 'bt <pid>' for the process to see where it
> loops.
> Another good set of hints is at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-deadlocks.html

Kostik, you must be clairvoyant;-)

When I did "show alllocks", I found that the syncer process held
- exclusive sleep mutex mount mtx locked _at_ kern/vfs_subr.c:4720
- exclusive lockmgr syncer locked _at_ kern/vfs_subr.c:1780
The trace for this process goes like:
 spinlock_exit
 mtx_unlock_spin_flags
 kern_yield
 _mnt_vnode_next_active
 vnode_next_active
 vfs_msync()

So, it seems like your r244095 commit might have fixed this?
(I'm not good at this stuff, but from your description, it looks
 like it did the kern_yield() with the mutex held and "maybe"
 got into trouble trying to acquire Giant?)

Anyhow, I'm going to test a kernel with r244095 in it and see
if I can still reproduce the hang.
(There wasn't much else in the "show alllocks", except a
 process that held the exclusive vnode interlock mutex plus
 a ufs vnode lock, but it's just doing a witness_unlock.)

I'll email if/when I know more, rick
ps: Fingers/toes crossed that you've already fixed it.

> 
> >
> > As I said, I can leave it in "db" for to-day, if anyone wants
> > me to do anything in the debugger and I can probably reproduce
> > it, if someone wants stuff tried later.
> >
> > rick
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > adrian
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9 December 2012 22:08, Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_freebsd.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I haven't found any useful clues yet, but thought I'd ask if
> > > > anyone
> > > > else
> > > > was seeing hangs in a recent kernel.
> > > >
> > > > I just upgraded to r244036 using a straight GENERIC i386 kernel.
> > > > (Straight buildworld/buildkernel, no local changes,
> > > > /etc/src.conf
> > > > doesn't
> > > > exist, /etc/make.conf just has PERL_VERSION defined.)
> > > >
> > > > When I try to cross build an ARM world on the resulting system,
> > > > the entire system hangs hard after about 30 minutes: No network,
> > > > no keyboard response, no nothing.
> > > >
> > > > Don't know if it's relevant, but the system is using NFS pretty
> > > > heavily (Parallels VM mounting NFS from Mac OS 10.7 host.)
> > > >
> > > > I'll try to get some more details ...
> > > >
> > > > Tim
> > > >
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