Re: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU: Workqueue: xfs-conv/md0 xfs_end_io

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 08:29:06AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Linux folks,
> 
> 
> On a Dell PowerEdge T630/0NT78X, BIOS 2.8.0 05/23/2018 with Linux 5.4.57, we
> twice saw a self-detected stall on a CPU (October 27th, 2020, January 18th,
> 2021).
> 
> Both times, the workqueue is `xfs-conv/md0 xfs_end_io`.
> 
> ```
> [    0.000000] Linux version 5.4.57.mx64.340
> (root@theinternet.molgen.mpg.de) (gcc version 7.5.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 11
> 13:20:33 CEST 2020
> […]
> [48962.981257] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
> [48962.987511] rcu: 	4-....: (20999 ticks this GP)
> idle=fe6/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=3630188/3630188 fqs=4696
> [48962.998805] 	(t=21017 jiffies g=14529009 q=32263)
> [48963.004074] Task dump for CPU 4:
> [48963.007689] kworker/4:2     R  running task        0 25587      2
> 0x80004008
> [48963.015591] Workqueue: xfs-conv/md0 xfs_end_io
> [48963.020570] Call Trace:
> [48963.023311]  <IRQ>
> [48963.025560]  sched_show_task+0x11e/0x150
> [48963.029957]  rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x70/0xa0
> [48963.034545]  rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x502/0x770
> [48963.039322]  ? tick_sched_do_timer+0x60/0x60
> [48963.044106]  update_process_times+0x24/0x60
> [48963.048791]  tick_sched_timer+0x37/0x70
> [48963.053089]  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x11f/0x2b0
> [48963.057960]  ? recalibrate_cpu_khz+0x10/0x10
> [48963.062744]  hrtimer_interrupt+0xe5/0x240
> [48963.067235]  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x130
> [48963.072407]  apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
> [48963.076994]  </IRQ>
> [48963.079347] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa/0x10
> [48963.085491] Code: f3 90 83 e8 01 75 e8 65 8b 3d 42 0f 56 7e e8 ed ea 5e
> ff 48 29 e8 4c 39 e8 76 cf 80 0b 08 eb 8c 0f 1f 44 00 00 c6 07 00 56 9d <c3>
> 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 00 fe ff ff f0 0f c1 07 56 9d
> [48963.106524] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000738fd40 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX:
> ffffffffffffff13
> [48963.115003] RAX: ffffffff82407588 RBX: ffffffff82407580 RCX:
> ffffffff82407588
> [48963.122994] RDX: ffffffff82407588 RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI:
> ffffffff82407580
> [48963.130989] RBP: 0000000000000202 R08: ffffffff8203ea00 R09:
> 0000000000000001
> [48963.138982] R10: ffffc9000738fbb8 R11: 0000000000000001 R12:
> ffffffff82407588
> [48963.146976] R13: ffffea005e7ae600 R14: ffff8897b7e5a040 R15:
> ffffea005e7ae600
> [48963.154971]  wake_up_page_bit+0xe0/0x100
> [48963.159366]  xfs_destroy_ioend+0xce/0x1c0
> [48963.163857]  xfs_end_ioend+0xcf/0x1a0
> [48963.167958]  xfs_end_io+0xa4/0xd0
> [48963.171672]  process_one_work+0x1e5/0x410
> [48963.176163]  worker_thread+0x2d/0x3c0
> [48963.180265]  ? cancel_delayed_work+0x90/0x90
> [48963.185048]  kthread+0x117/0x130
> [48963.188663]  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
> [48963.194321]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
> ```
> 
> As it’s just log level INFO, is there anything what should be done, or was
> the system probably just “overloaded”?

I am assuming that you are building your kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
rather than CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y.

If so, and if the problem is that you are temporarily overdriving xfs I/O,
one approach would be as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index f16d5f1..06be426 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ xfs_end_io(
 		list_del_init(&ioend->io_list);
 		xfs_ioend_try_merge(ioend, &completion_list);
 		xfs_end_ioend(ioend);
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 }
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you have instead built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y, then your
problem is likely massive lock contention in wake_up_page_bit(), or
perhaps someone having failed to release that lock.  The usual way to
work this out is by enabling lockdep (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y), but this
is often not what you want enabled in production.

Darrick, thoughts from an xfs perspective?

							Thanx, Paul