Re: major NFSv4 client regression (-rc7)

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 15:52:23 EST



On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:41 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Server: Linux 2.6.24-rc6 (x86-64/Fedora 8)
> Good client: Linux 2.6.24-rc6-ge697789d (x86-64/Fedora 7)
> Bad client: Linux 2.6.24-rc7-gfd0b45df (x86-64/Fedora 7)
> Situation: home dir via NFS
>
> My home setup is a standard homedir-over-NFS setup, using NFSv4 on both
> client and server. I just rebooted into the latest upstream kernel, and
> I am getting NFS client hangs all over the place:
>
> [jgarzik@core firefox]$ cat profiles.ini
>
> hangs here, for 15 minutes so far and counting...
> ('core' is the client machine)
>
> and I first noticed this when firefox and thunderbird were hanging, when
> I tried to start them after rebooting into the latest kernel. stracing
> firefox yielding a hang in open:
>
> ("/g" is the NFS-mounted volume)
>
> access("/usr/lib64/firefox-2.0.0.10/updates", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/g/g/.mozilla/firefox", F_OK) = 0
> access("/g/g/.mozilla/firefox", F_OK) = 0
> stat("/g/g/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=94, ...}) = 0
> open("/g/g/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini", O_RDONLY
>
> hangs here, for 20 minutes so far and counting...
>
> As you can see from the trace, and as I can report simply by being able
> to send this message, SOME file accesses over NFS work just fine.
>
> Accessing the file works when logged into the server, so its not disk
> corruption or something like that.
>
> Neither client nor server have anything interesting in dmesg -- in fact
> nothing in dmesg beyond the normal boot messages have been printed.
>
> Let me know what info I can provide... This is a 100% reproducible
> regression, and this latest NFS client revision has made my local
> NFS-over-homedir setup completely unusable. I am forced to return to
> the known working client (Linux 2.6.24-rc6-ge697789d) just to run basic
> apps.

This looks as if it might be the same issue that was reported as bug
9712 in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9712).

The fix is attached. Please could you confirm that it fixes the hang?

Cheers
Trond
--- Begin Message --- Sharing the open sequence queue causes a deadlock when we try to take both
a lock sequence id and and open sequence id.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h | 1 +
fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h b/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h
index b35069a..bd1b9d6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ struct nfs4_lock_state {
#define NFS_LOCK_INITIALIZED 1
int ls_flags;
struct nfs_seqid_counter ls_seqid;
+ struct rpc_sequence ls_sequence;
struct nfs_unique_id ls_id;
nfs4_stateid ls_stateid;
atomic_t ls_count;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
index 23a9a36..5a39c6f 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
@@ -509,7 +509,10 @@ static struct nfs4_lock_state *nfs4_alloc_lock_state(struct nfs4_state *state, f
lsp = kzalloc(sizeof(*lsp), GFP_KERNEL);
if (lsp == NULL)
return NULL;
- lsp->ls_seqid.sequence = &state->owner->so_sequence;
+ rpc_init_wait_queue(&lsp->ls_sequence.wait, "lock_seqid_waitqueue");
+ spin_lock_init(&lsp->ls_sequence.lock);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lsp->ls_sequence.list);
+ lsp->ls_seqid.sequence = &lsp->ls_sequence;
atomic_set(&lsp->ls_count, 1);
lsp->ls_owner = fl_owner;
spin_lock(&clp->cl_lock);

--- End Message ---