On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 02:26:19PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: > > Occasionally we see a process get stuck in an unkillable state and > the only solution is a hard reboot. > > Occasionally == once every two weeks across 60+ servers, which are spread > across the globe in customer sites. We have no remote access to these boxes. > > The process that most often that gets stuck, but not limited to, is a large > scale Ping/SNMP poller. It is a fairly simplistic C program that just fires > out lots of ping (raw ICMP socket) and SNMP (UDP socket) requests > asynchronously. > > We've managed to trap the problem a few times on a test server running in > VirtualBox, but it also occurs on customer sites who run VMware, Hyper-V, > QEMU and on bare metal. > > > We raise this PR > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204081 > > but suspect it is a similar/same issue as > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200992 > > This is the info we've gathered from the most recent time it has occurred: > > > # uname -a > FreeBSD shed153.akips.com 10.2-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p12 #0 > r295070: > Sat Jan 30 20:03:44 UTC 2016 > r...@shed21.akips.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> # ps auxww | grep nm-poller > akips 1014 0.0 2.6 871820 106540 - Ds 10Feb16 1078:59.06 nm-poller > > > # procstat -k 1014 > PID TID COMM TDNAME KSTACK > 1014 100365 nm-poller - mi_switch sleepq_timedwait_sig > _cv_timedwait_sig_sbt seltdwait kern_select sys_select amd64_syscall > Xfast_syscall > Yes, on HEAD it was reported that the https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5221 fixed the problem. Still not reviewed. I did back-port to stable/10, the patch below is probably not applicable to 10.2, you would need 10.3 for it. Some revisions are missed from stable/10, but I think that the issue worked around in the patch is at the core of troubles many people reported. Index: sys/kern/kern_timeout.c =================================================================== --- sys/kern/kern_timeout.c (revision 295966) +++ sys/kern/kern_timeout.c (working copy) @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ _callout_stop_safe(c, safe) * Some old subsystems don't hold Giant while running a callout_stop(), * so just discard this check for the moment. */ - if (!safe && c->c_lock != NULL) { + if ((safe & CS_DRAIN) == 0 && c->c_lock != NULL) { if (c->c_lock == &Giant.lock_object) use_lock = mtx_owned(&Giant); else { @@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ again: return (0); } - if (safe) { + if ((safe & CS_DRAIN) != 0) { /* * The current callout is running (or just * about to run) and blocking is allowed, so @@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ again: CTR3(KTR_CALLOUT, "postponing stop %p func %p arg %p", c, c->c_func, c->c_arg); CC_UNLOCK(cc); - return (0); + return ((safe & CS_MIGRBLOCK) != 0); } CTR3(KTR_CALLOUT, "failed to stop %p func %p arg %p", c, c->c_func, c->c_arg); Index: sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c =================================================================== --- sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c (revision 295966) +++ sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c (working copy) @@ -572,7 +572,8 @@ sleepq_check_timeout(void) * another CPU, so synchronize with it to avoid having it * accidentally wake up a subsequent sleep. */ - else if (callout_stop(&td->td_slpcallout) == 0) { + else if (_callout_stop_safe(&td->td_slpcallout, CS_MIGRBLOCK) + == 0) { td->td_flags |= TDF_TIMEOUT; TD_SET_SLEEPING(td); mi_switch(SW_INVOL | SWT_SLEEPQTIMO, NULL); Index: sys/sys/callout.h =================================================================== --- sys/sys/callout.h (revision 295966) +++ sys/sys/callout.h (working copy) @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ struct callout_handle { struct callout *callout; }; +#define CS_DRAIN 0x0001 +#define CS_MIGRBLOCK 0x0002 + #ifdef _KERNEL /* * Note the flags field is actually *two* fields. The c_flags @@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ struct callout_handle { */ #define callout_active(c) ((c)->c_flags & CALLOUT_ACTIVE) #define callout_deactivate(c) ((c)->c_flags &= ~CALLOUT_ACTIVE) -#define callout_drain(c) _callout_stop_safe(c, 1) +#define callout_drain(c) _callout_stop_safe(c, CS_DRAIN) void callout_init(struct callout *, int); void _callout_init_lock(struct callout *, struct lock_object *, int); #define callout_init_mtx(c, mtx, flags) \ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
