Re: [3.6.6] panic on reboot / khungtaskd blocked? (WARNING: atarch/x86/kernel/smp.c:123 native_smp_send_reschedule)

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Nov 15 2012 - 22:11:14 EST


On Fri 16-11-12 10:50:43, Michael Wang wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 05:40 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Thu 15-11-12 09:41:40, Michael Wang wrote:
> >> On 11/15/2012 05:10 AM, PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 14 of November 2012 10:32:41 Michael Wang wrote:
> >>>> On 11/13/2012 05:40 PM, PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> >>>>> On Monday 12 of November 2012 13:33:39 PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> >>>>>> On Monday 12 of November 2012 11:22:47 PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Monday 12 of November 2012 15:40:31 Michael Wang wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 11/12/2012 03:16 PM, PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Monday 12 of November 2012 11:04:12 Michael Wang wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> On 11/09/2012 09:48 PM, PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> during playing with new ups i've caught an nice oops on reboot:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> http://imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=10253
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> probably the upstream is also affected.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Hi, PaweÅ
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Are you using a clean 3.6.6 without any modify?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> yes, pure 3.6.6 form git tree with modular config.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Looks like some threads has set itself to be UNINTERRUPTIBLE with out
> >>>>>>>>>> any design on switch itself back later(or the time is too long), are you
> >>>>>>>>>> accidentally using some bad designed module?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> hmm, hard to say. mostly all modules are loaded automatically by kernel.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Could you please provide the whole dmesg in text? your picture lost the
> >>>>>>>> print info of the hung task.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> i've grabbed the console via rs232 but there's no more info (see attached txt).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> hmm, i have one observation.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> during rc.shutdown there're messages on console like this: Cannot stat file /proc/$pid/fd/1: Connection timed out
> >>>>>> afaics this file descriptor points to vnc log file on a remote machine, e.g.:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> # ps aux|grep xfwm4
> >>>>>> eda 1748 0.0 0.0 320220 11224 ? S 13:08 0:00 xfwm4
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> # readlink -m /proc/1748/fd/1
> >>>>>> /remote/dragon/ahome/eda/.vnc/odra:11.log
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> # mount|grep ahome
> >>>>>> dragon:/home/users/ on /remote/dragon/ahome type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,soft,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.2.121,mountvers=3,mountport=45251,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.0.2.121)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> so, probably during `killall5 -TERM/-KILL` on shutdown stage something sometimes go wrong
> >>>>>> and these processes (xfce4/vncserver) survive the signal and hang on the nfs i/o.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ok, now i have full sysrq+w backtraces from shutdown process. i hope i'll help you.
> >>>>
> >>>> This can only tell us what's the task in UNINTERRUPTABLE state, but with
> >>>> out time info, we can't find out which one is the hung task...
> >>
> >> So it's blocked on __lock_page() for too long?
> >> Add more experts in mm aspect to cc.
> > It's really NFS related. E.g. in trace
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/14/657 we are waiting on PageWriteback bit
> > in fact - i.e. we have submitted data to the NFS server and are waiting for
> > its response that the data was written.
>
> Do you mean, NFS lock some page, then wait on a respond which not come in?
Well, in that particular trace we are not waiting for PageLock but on
PageWriteback bit as I wrote. But otherwise yes, NFS set PageWriteback bit
and sent the data from the page to the server. When the server responds,
the PageWriteback bit will get cleared and could continue. But the response
didn't come.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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