Re: Infiniate systemd loop when power off the machine with multiple MD RAIDs

From: Yu Kuai
Date: Wed Aug 30 2023 - 22:29:01 EST


Hi, Acelan,

在 2023/08/28 21:50, Yu Kuai 写道:
Hi,

在 2023/08/28 13:20, Song Liu 写道:
Hi AceLan,

Thanks for running the experiments.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 9:32 PM AceLan Kao <acelan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]

Could you please run the follow two experiments?

1. Confirm 12a6caf273240a triggers this. Specifically:
    git checkout 12a6caf273240a => repros
    git checkout 12a6caf273240a~1 => cannot repro
Yes, I'm pretty sure about this, that's my bisect result and I just
confirmed it again.
I also tried reverting 12a6caf273240a and the issue is gone.

The log doesn't match my guess. Specifically:

[  420.068142] systemd-shutdown[1]: Stopping MD /dev/md123 (9:123).
[  420.074718] md_open:md123 openers++ = 1 by systemd-shutdow
[  420.080787] systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to sync MD block device
/dev/md123, ignoring: Input/output error
[  420.090831] md: md123 stopped.
[  420.094465] systemd-shutdown[1]: Stopping MD /dev/md122 (9:122).
[  420.101045] systemd-shutdown[1]: Could not stop MD /dev/md122:
Device or resource busy

I see that:

systemd-shutdown[1]: Couldn't finalize remaining  MD devices, trying again.

Can we make sure is this why power off hang?

Because in my VM, power off is not hang and I got:

systemd-shutdown[1]: Could not stop MD /dev/md1: Device or resource busy
systemd-shutdown[1]: Failed to finalize MD devices, ignoring.

For a successful stop on md123, we reach the pr_info() in md_open().
For a failed stop on md122, the kernel returns -EBUSY before that
pr_info() in md_open(). There are some changes in md_open() in
the past few release, so I am not quite sure we are looking at the
same code.

By the way, based on code review, looks like md_open never return
-EBUSY, and I think following is the only place can return -EBUSY before
md_open() is called:

blkdev_open
 blkdev_get_by_dev
  bd_prepare_to_claim
   bd_may_claim     -> -EBUSY

Acelan, can you add following debug patch on the top of Song's patch
and reporduce it again? Hope it'll confirm why stop array failed with
-EBUSY.


I saw your reply:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMz9Wg9VXJzZkKWCosm0_=Rz6gG9r3pCMrhvBZQVCQb8i0kd-w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

But I didn't recieve you emails, please reply to me through this email
address: yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx. yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is just used for
sending, and I always missing emails from huaweicloud.com, my apologize
for this inconvenience, I have to do it this way due to my company
policy.

There is something interesting on test result:

At first, md122 is the root device, I guess this is why I can't repoduce
this problem in my local VM.
[ 14.478619] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[585]: md122p3: Root device /dev/md122.
[ 14.481823] block md122: the capability attribute has been deprecated.

Then, before trying to stop md122, following log shows that md122 is
still mounted:
[ 1368.369926] [3462]: Remounting '/' read-only with options 'errors=remount-ro,stripe=128'.
[ 1368.396287] EXT4-fs (md122p3): re-mounted 6d53dc8e-3f45-4efa-bc0e-4af477fac217 ro. Quota mode: none.

And since then, there is no log aboug md_open(), which means no one
ever open md122 since this remount.

At last, there are lots of log shows that md122 can't be opened
exclusively:
[ 1368.812952] md122:systemd-shutdow bd_prepare_to_claim return -16
[ 1368.819189] md122:systemd-shutdow blkdev_get_by_dev return -16

Which indicate that md122 is still mounted, and systemd-shutdow can't
stop this array. This behaviour looks correct to me, because rootfs
can't be umounted while systemd-shutdown is still running.

However, there are some questions I don't have answers for now, I'm not
familiar with how systemd works:

1) In the normal case that raid is root device, how can systemd-shutdown
make progress and how is rootfs unmounted?
2) How does this scenario related to commit 12a6caf273240a.

I must read systemd source code to get answers, and it'll be appreciated
if someone has answers.

Thanks,
Kuai

diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index 979e28a46b98..699739223dcb 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -789,8 +789,11 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_dev(dev_t dev, blk_mode_t mode, void *holder,
        if (holder) {
                mode |= BLK_OPEN_EXCL;
                ret = bd_prepare_to_claim(bdev, holder, hops);
-               if (ret)
+               if (ret) {
+                       pr_warn("%s:%s bd_prepare_to_claim return %d\n",
+                               disk->disk_name, current->comm, ret);
                        goto put_blkdev;
+               }
        } else {
                if (WARN_ON_ONCE(mode & BLK_OPEN_EXCL)) {
                        ret = -EIO;
diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c
index eaa98a987213..2d69119c71f6 100644
--- a/block/fops.c
+++ b/block/fops.c
@@ -587,8 +587,11 @@ static int blkdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)

        bdev = blkdev_get_by_dev(inode->i_rdev, file_to_blk_mode(filp),
                                 filp->private_data, NULL);
-       if (IS_ERR(bdev))
+       if (IS_ERR(bdev)) {
+               pr_warn("%pD:%s blkdev_get_by_dev return %ld\n",
+                       filp, current->comm, PTR_ERR(bdev));
                return PTR_ERR(bdev);
+       }

        if (bdev_nowait(bdev))
                filp->f_mode |= FMODE_NOWAIT;

Thanks,
Kuai


Therefore, could you please help clarify:

1. Which base kernel are you using?

From the log, you are using 6.5-rc7-706a74159504. However,
I think we cannot cleanly revert 12a6caf273240a on top of
6.5-rc7-706a74159504. Did you manually fix some issue in the
revert? If so, could you please share the revert commit?

2. If you are not using 6.5-rc7-706a74159504 as base kernel, which
one are you using?

Thanks,
Song



2. Try with the following change (add debug messages), which hopefully
    shows which command is holding a reference on mddev->openers.

Thanks,
Song

diff --git i/drivers/md/md.c w/drivers/md/md.c
index 78be7811a89f..3e9b718b32c1 100644
--- i/drivers/md/md.c
+++ w/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7574,11 +7574,15 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev,
blk_mode_t mode,
                 if (mddev->pers && atomic_read(&mddev->openers) > 1) {
                         mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
                         err = -EBUSY;
+                       pr_warn("%s return -EBUSY for %s with
mddev->openers = %d\n",
+                               __func__, mdname(mddev),
atomic_read(&mddev->openers));
                         goto out;
                 }
                 if (test_and_set_bit(MD_CLOSING, &mddev->flags)) {
                         mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
                         err = -EBUSY;
+                       pr_warn("%s return -EBUSY for %s with
MD_CLOSING bit set\n",
+                               __func__, mdname(mddev));
                         goto out;
                 }
                 did_set_md_closing = true;
@@ -7789,6 +7793,8 @@ static int md_open(struct gendisk *disk, blk_mode_t mode)
                 goto out_unlock;

         atomic_inc(&mddev->openers);
+       pr_info("%s:%s openers++ = %d by %s\n", __func__, mdname(mddev),
+               atomic_read(&mddev->openers), current->comm);
         mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);

         disk_check_media_change(disk);
@@ -7807,6 +7813,8 @@ static void md_release(struct gendisk *disk)

         BUG_ON(!mddev);
         atomic_dec(&mddev->openers);
+       pr_info("%s:%s openers-- = %d by %s\n", __func__, mdname(mddev),
+               atomic_read(&mddev->openers), current->comm);
         mddev_put(mddev);
  }
It's pretty strange that I can't reproduce the issue after applied the patch.

I tried to figure out which part affect the issue and found when I
comment out the pr_info() In md_release(), the issue could be
reproduced.

--
Chia-Lin Kao(AceLan)
http://blog.acelan.idv.tw/
E-Mail: acelan.kaoATcanonical.com (s/AT/@/)
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