Re: linux 4.19.19: md0_raid:1317 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

[Wolfgang Walter]

Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2019, 16:20:11 schrieb Guoqing Jiang:
> On 2/11/19 11:12 PM, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> > With 4.19.19 we see sometimes the following issue (practically only with
> > blk_mq, though):
> > 
> > Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060165] INFO: task md0_raid1:317
> > blocked for more than 120 seconds. Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060188]       Not tainted 4.19.19-debian64.all+1.1 #1 Feb  4
> > 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060197] "echo 0 >
> > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Feb  4
> > 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060207] md0_raid1       D    0   317   
> >   2 0x80000000 Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060211] Call
> > Trace:
> > Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060222]  ? __schedule+0x2a2/0x8c0
> > Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060226]  ?
> > _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40 Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060229]  schedule+0x32/0x90 Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060241]  md_super_wait+0x69/0xa0 [md_mod] Feb  4 20:04:46
> > tettnang kernel: [252300.060247]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 Feb  4 20:04:46
> > tettnang kernel: [252300.060255]  md_bitmap_wait_writes+0x8e/0xa0
> > [md_mod] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060263]  ?
> > md_bitmap_get_counter+0x42/0xd0 [md_mod] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060271]  md_bitmap_daemon_work+0x1e8/0x380 [md_mod] Feb  4
> > 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060278]  ? md_rdev_init+0xb0/0xb0
> > [md_mod] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060285] 
> > md_check_recovery+0x26/0x540 [md_mod] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060290]  raid1d+0x5c/0xf00 [raid1] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang
> > kernel: [252300.060294]  ? preempt_count_add+0x79/0xb0 Feb  4 20:04:46
> > tettnang kernel: [252300.060298]  ? lock_timer_base+0x67/0x80 Feb  4
> > 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060302]  ?
> > _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40 Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060304]  ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x4d/0x80 Feb  4 20:04:46
> > tettnang kernel: [252300.060306]  ? del_timer_sync+0x35/0x40 Feb  4
> > 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060309]  ? schedule_timeout+0x17a/0x3b0
> > Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060312]  ?
> > preempt_count_add+0x79/0xb0 Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060315]  ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x25/0x50 Feb  4 20:04:46
> > tettnang kernel: [252300.060321]  ? md_rdev_init+0xb0/0xb0 [md_mod] Feb 
> > 4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060327]  ? md_thread+0xf9/0x160
> > [md_mod] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060330]  ?
> > r1bio_pool_alloc+0x20/0x20 [raid1] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang kernel:
> > [252300.060336]  md_thread+0xf9/0x160 [md_mod] Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang
> > kernel: [252300.060340]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang
> > kernel: [252300.060344]  kthread+0x112/0x130 Feb  4 20:04:46 tettnang
> > kernel: [252300.060346]  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70 Feb  4
> > 20:04:46 tettnang kernel: [252300.060350]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
> > 
> > I saw that there was a similar problem with raid10 and an upstream patch
> > 
> > e820d55cb99dd93ac2dc949cf486bb187e5cd70d
> > md: fix raid10 hang issue caused by barrier
> > by  Guoqing Jiang
> > 
> > I wonder if there is a similar fix needed for raid1?
> 
> Seems not, the calltrace tells the previous write superblock IO was not
> finish as expected,
> there is a report for raid5 which has similar problem with md_super_wait
> in the link [1]. Maybe
> you can disable blk-mq to narrow down the issue as well.

I already did for 4 weeks. I didn't saw this with blk-mq disabled (for scsi 
and md), though this may be by luck.

> 
> And I don't know why  md_bitmap_wait_writes is needed in
> bitmap_daemon_work because
> it doesn't call write_page before md_bitmap_wait_writes, and the change
> is introduced in
> commit 85c9ccd4f026a ("md/bitmap: Don't write bitmap while earlier
> writes might be in-flight").
> Neil, is it safe to remove it? Thanks.
> 
> [1] |https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243520

I found this bug report in debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904822

Regards,
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
Studentenwerk München
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