On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 08:01:27PM +0000, Jon Kohler wrote: > Hey Paul, Lai, Josh, and the RCU list and Jan/FS list - > Reaching out about a tricky hung task issue that I'm running into. I've > got a virtualized Linux guest on top of a KVM based platform, running > a 5.10.y based kernel. The issue we're running into is a hung task that > *only* happens on shutdown/reboot of this particular VM once every > 20-50 times. > > The signature of the hung task is always similar to the output below, > where we appear to hang on the call to > synchronize_srcu(&fsnotify_mark_srcu)
One thing to try would be to add trace_printk() or similar to the SRCU readers, just in case someone was using srcu_read_lock_notrace() on fsnotify_mark_srcu, which I see no trace of in current mainline. Alternatively, if there is a version where this does not happen, try bisecting. Each bisection step would require something like 400-500 shutdown/reboots to prove the commit good. (Obviously, the first failure proves the commit bad, which for one-out-of-50 failures will take on average about 35 shutdown/reboots.) There could also be a bad SRCU backport from mainline, so please check what SRCU backports you have in your 5.10.y stable release. (Though maybe Jack has already done this?) Thanx, Paul > in fsnotify_connector_destroy_workfn / fsnotify_mark_destroy_workfn, > where two kernel threads are both calling synchronize_srcu, then > scheduling out in wait_for_completion, and completely going out to > lunch for over 4 minutes. This then triggers the hung task timeout and > things blow up. > > We are running audit=1 for this system and are using an el8 based > userspace. > > I've flipped through the fs/notify code base for both 5.10 as well as > upstream mainline to see if something jumped off the page, and I > haven't yet spotted any particular suspect code from the caller side. > > This hang appears to come up at the very end of the shutdown/reboot > process, seemingly after the system starts to unwind through initrd. > > What I'm working on now is adding some instrumentation to the dracut > shutdown initrd scripts to see if I can how far we get down that path > before the system fails to make forward progress, which may give some > hints. TBD on that. I've also enabled lockdep with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU and > a plethora of DEBUG options [2], and didn't get anything interesting. > To be clear, we haven't seen lockdep spit out any complaints as of yet. > > Reaching out to see if this sounds familar to anyone on the list, or if > there are any particular areas of the RCU code base that might be > suspect for this kind of issue. I'm happy to provide more information, > as frankly, I'm quite stumped at the moment. > > Thanks all, > Jon > > [1] panic trace > Normal shutdown process, then hangs on the following: > ... > dracut Warning: Killing all remaining processes > ... > INFO: task kworker/u20:7:1200701 blocked for more than 241 seconds. > Tainted: G O 5.10.205-2.el8.x86_64 #1 > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > task:kworker/u20:7 state:D stack: 0 pid:1200701 ppid: 2 > flags:0x00004080 > Workqueue: events_unbound fsnotify_connector_destroy_workfn > Call Trace: > __schedule+0x267/0x790 > schedule+0x3c/0xb0 > schedule_timeout+0x219/0x2b0 > wait_for_completion+0x9e/0x100 > __synchronize_srcu.part.24+0x83/0xb0 > ? __bpf_trace_rcu_utilization+0x10/0x10 > ? synchronize_srcu+0x5d/0xf0 > fsnotify_connector_destroy_workfn+0x46/0x80 > process_one_work+0x1fc/0x390 > worker_thread+0x2d/0x3e0 > ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390 > kthread+0x114/0x130 > ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 > ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 > INFO: task kworker/u20:8:1287360 blocked for more than 241 seconds. > Tainted: G O 5.10.205-2.el8.x86_64 #1 > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > task:kworker/u20:8 state:D stack: 0 pid:1287360 ppid: 2 > flags:0x00004080 > Workqueue: events_unbound fsnotify_mark_destroy_workfn > Call Trace: > __schedule+0x267/0x790 > schedule+0x3c/0xb0 > schedule_timeout+0x219/0x2b0 > ? add_timer+0x14a/0x200 > wait_for_completion+0x9e/0x100 > __synchronize_srcu.part.24+0x83/0xb0 > ? __bpf_trace_rcu_utilization+0x10/0x10 > fsnotify_mark_destroy_workfn+0x77/0xe0 > process_one_work+0x1fc/0x390 > ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390 > worker_thread+0x2d/0x3e0 > ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390 > kthread+0x114/0x130 > ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 > ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 > Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks > CPU: 1 PID: 64 Comm: khungtaskd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O > 5.10.205-2.el8.x86_64 #1 > Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 20230302.1.2662.el8 04/01/2014 > Call Trace: > dump_stack+0x6d/0x8c > panic+0x114/0x2ea > watchdog.cold.8+0xb5/0xb5 > ? hungtask_pm_notify+0x50/0x50 > kthread+0x114/0x130 > ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 > ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 > > [2] additional debugging config knobs turned up. > CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y > CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_RWSEMS=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y > CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y > CONFIG_LOCKDEP_BITS=15 > CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS=16 > CONFIG_LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS=19 > CONFIG_LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS=14 > CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS=12 > CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ=y > CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_PLIST=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y > CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS=y > CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION=y