Public bug reported: Since August 19th we have been struggling with irregular crashes on our NFS server.
Our experiences with NFS server crashes are: - We were able to reproduce the crashes in our production and test environments with NFS4.2. Rarely after minutes, sometimes after hours or days, but sometimes not at all, as we often stopped the experiments after 12 to 24 hours. - We have not yet been able to reproduce a crash between a bare metal NFS server and a bare metal NFS client, but between a bare metal NFS server and a virtualized client with NFS4.2. - we could not reproduce a crash with NFS vers=4.0 up to now - we now running NFS vers=4.1 since some hours to see if this helps to get the system stable - the crashs happens with or without GSSPROXY - before Sept 15 the kernel back on the NFS server trace allways started with: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#23 stuck for 26s! [kworker/u483:0:8805] and after Sept 15 with: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU - changing the kernel on the client from 6.8.0-40-generic to the unofficial 6.5.0-46-generic from Mehmet Basaran (mehmetbasaran) only removed the backchannel error from the client, but the server still hangs with "rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU" - changing the client kernel from 6.8.0-40-generic back to 6.5.0-44-generic does not solved the problem that user can not login after the crash: client: kernel: [29361.795714] INFO: task python3:107226 blocked for more than 120 seconds. - changing also the server kernel back from 5.15.0-122-generic to 5.15.0-112-generic only changed the error message but not the stability: server: kernel: [82884.774039] INFO: task split:8351 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Our setup: - virtualized NFS 4.2 server with Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS and kernel 5.15.0-122-generic - virtualized NFS clients with Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS and kernel 6.8.0-40-generic or kernel 6.8.0-45-generic - /etc/exports : /mnt/home nfsclient(sec=krb5,rw,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check) - /etc/fstab : nfsserver:/mnt/home /home nfs vers=4.2,rw,soft,sec=krb5,proto=tcp 0 0 - apt info nfs-common : Version: 1:2.6.1-1ubuntu1.2 # NFS Server error message with mainline kernel 5.15.0-122-generic : Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: rcu: 54-....: (14998 ticks this GP) idle=2db/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=32173387/32173387 fqs=7449 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: (t=15000 jiffies g=144775177 q=49782) Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: NMI backtrace for cpu 54 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: CPU: 54 PID: 153154 Comm: kworker/u480:36 Not tainted 5.15.0-122-generic #132-Ubuntu Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.0 12/17/2019 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: Workqueue: rpciod rpc_async_schedule [sunrpc] Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: Call Trace: Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: <IRQ> Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: show_stack+0x52/0x5c Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: dump_stack+0x10/0x16 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold+0x4d/0x93 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: ? lapic_can_unplug_cpu+0x90/0x90 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0xec/0x100 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x19/0x20 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: trigger_single_cpu_backtrace+0x44/0x4f Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x102/0x149 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: print_cpu_stall.cold+0x2f/0xe2 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: check_cpu_stall+0x1d8/0x270 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x9a/0x250 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: update_process_times+0x94/0xd0 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: tick_sched_handle+0x29/0x70 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: tick_sched_timer+0x6f/0x90 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: ? tick_sched_do_timer+0xa0/0xa0 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: __hrtimer_run_queues+0x104/0x230 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: ? read_hv_clock_tsc_cs+0x9/0x30 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: hrtimer_interrupt+0x101/0x220 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: hv_stimer0_isr+0x1d/0x30 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: __sysvec_hyperv_stimer0+0x2f/0x70 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: sysvec_hyperv_stimer0+0x7b/0x90 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: </IRQ> Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: <TASK> Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: asm_sysvec_hyperv_stimer0+0x1b/0x20 Sep 30 01:15:51 export2.iap-kborn.de kernel: RIP: 0010:read_hv_clock_tsc+0x1b/0x60 ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083502 Title: NFS4.2 crashes with high IO load after some hours To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2083502/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs