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From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
To: linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Subject: [BUG] bcachefs fio lockup via generic/703
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:47:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zd+NzotWTooA/9zq@bfoster> (raw)

Hi Kent,

Firstly, I confirmed that today's master seems to avoid the splat I sent
previously (re: your comment about a reverse journal replay patch or
some such).

I still reproduce the stall issue on this system. After peeling away at
it, I was eventually able to reproduce without the drop writes
(dm-flakey) behavior from the test, and with fio using either the libaio
or sync I/O engine options. The sync I/O mode fortunately provides a
more useful stack trace:

# cat /proc/177747/stack 
[<0>] bch2_dio_write_flush+0x122/0x160 [bcachefs]
[<0>] bch2_direct_write+0xb53/0xce0 [bcachefs]
[<0>] bch2_write_iter+0x142/0xc70 [bcachefs]
[<0>] vfs_write+0x29b/0x470
[<0>] ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x86/0x170
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

... which resolves down to the closure_sync() call in
bch2_dio_write_flush(). The problem seems to go away if I remove the
preceding journal flush from that function. This seems to rule out
io_uring/aio and instead suggest that we're getting stuck somehow
waiting on a journal flush.

Based on that I went back to the first commit before 746a33c96b7a0
("bcachefs: better journal pipelining"). With that, I can run hundreds
of iterations of generic/703 without a problem, so this appears to be a
regression associated with the journal pipeline improvements. I'm
currently re-running on the last known good commit with my test tweaks
backed out (i.e. so back to io_uring and drop writes) just to
corroborate that it's the same problem, but so far it's running as
expected...

Brian


             reply	other threads:[~2024-02-28 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-28 19:47 Brian Foster [this message]
2024-02-28 20:03 ` [BUG] bcachefs fio lockup via generic/703 Kent Overstreet
2024-02-28 20:13   ` Brian Foster
2024-02-28 23:43     ` Kent Overstreet
2024-02-29  0:02     ` Kent Overstreet
2024-02-29  2:59       ` Kent Overstreet
2024-02-29 15:55         ` Brian Foster
2024-02-29 16:24           ` Kent Overstreet

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