Re: Traversing XFS mounted VM puts process in D state

[Dave Chinner]

[cc linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 06:42:32AM +0530, Dinesh Pathak wrote:
> Hi, We are mounting and traversing one backup of a VM with XFS filesystem.
> Sometimes during traversing, the process goes into D state and can not be
> killed. Eventually system needs to IPMI rebooted. This happens once in 100
> times.
> 
> This VM backup is kept on NFS storage. So we first do NFS mounting. Then do
> loopback mount of the partition which contain XFS. After that we traverse
> the file system, but this traversing is not necessarily multi threaded (We
> have seen the issue in both single-threaded and multi-threaded traversal)
> 
> I see a similar problem reported here: https://access.redhat.com/
> solutions/2456711
> The resolution given here is to upgrade the linux kernel to
> kernel-3.10.0-514.el7 RHSA-2016-2574
> <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html> RHEL7.3. Upgrading the
> kernel may not be possible for us. Is there any patch/patches that we can
> apply to fix this issue.

Oh, it's RHEL kernel. This is not a mainline kernel so you need to
report this to your local Red Hat support engineer rather than to
upstream kernel lists.

-Dave.

> One more thread here says that this issue is fixed only in the above kernel
> version. It is seen in previous as well as later versions.
> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13843&history=1
> 
> Is there anyway to reproduce this problem. All our efforts to reproduce
> this issue have not succeeded.
> 
> Please help me know if any more debugging can be done.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dinesh
> 
> Kernel version of source VM, whose backup is taken.
> 
> root@web-2318 ~]# uname -a
> 
> Linux web-2318.website.oxilion.nl 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul
> 4 15:04:05 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Kernel version of the machine where backup is mounted and traversed.
> 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 5 12:41:09 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017] yoda_exec       D 0000000000000000     0 48948  48938
> 0x00000000
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  ffff8801052437b0 0000000000000086
> ffff88000aa02e00 ffff880105243fd8
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  ffff880105243fd8 ffff880105243fd8
> ffff88000aa02e00 ffff88010521e730
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  7fffffffffffffff ffff88000aa02e00
> 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017] Call Trace:
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff8163b7f9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff816394e9>]
> schedule_timeout+0x209/0x2d0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07a2e67>] ?
> xfs_iext_bno_to_ext+0xa7/0x1a0 [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff8163ab22>] __down_common+0xd2/0x14a
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07b00cd>] ?
> _xfs_buf_find+0x16d/0x2c0 [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff8163abb7>] __down+0x1d/0x1f
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff810ab921>] down+0x41/0x50
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07afecc>] xfs_buf_lock+0x3c/0xd0
> [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07b00cd>] _xfs_buf_find+0x16d/0x2c0
> [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07b024a>] xfs_buf_get_map+0x2a/0x180
> [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07b0d2c>]
> xfs_buf_read_map+0x2c/0x140 [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07dd829>]
> xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x199/0x400 [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa0790204>] xfs_da_read_buf+0xd4/0x100
> [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa0790253>]
> xfs_da3_node_read+0x23/0xd0 [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811c153a>] ?
> kmem_cache_alloc+0x1ba/0x1d0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07914ce>]
> xfs_da3_node_lookup_int+0x6e/0x2f0 [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa079bded>]
> xfs_dir2_node_lookup+0x4d/0x170
> [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07937b5>] xfs_dir_lookup+0x195/0x1b0
> [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07c1bb6>] xfs_lookup+0x66/0x110 [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffffa07bea0b>] xfs_vn_lookup+0x7b/0xd0
> [xfs]
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811e8cad>] lookup_real+0x1d/0x50
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811e9622>] __lookup_hash+0x42/0x60
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff8163342b>] lookup_slow+0x42/0xa7
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811ee4f3>] path_lookupat+0x773/0x7a0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff81186f6a>] ? kvfree+0x2a/0x40
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811c13b5>] ?
> kmem_cache_alloc+0x35/0x1d0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811ef1ef>] ? getname_flags+0x4f/0x1a0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811ee54b>] filename_lookup+0x2b/0xc0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811f0317>]
> user_path_at_empty+0x67/0xc0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811f0381>] user_path_at+0x11/0x20
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811e3bc3>] vfs_fstatat+0x63/0xc0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811e4191>] SYSC_newlstat+0x31/0x60
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811f27fc>] ? vfs_readdir+0x8c/0xe0
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811f2cad>] ? SyS_getdents+0xfd/0x120
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff811e441e>] SyS_newlstat+0xe/0x10
> 
> [Mon Dec  4 21:08:21 2017]  [<ffffffff81646889>]
> system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx