Re: BUG: BISECTED: in squashfs_xz_uncompress() (Was: RCU stalls in squashfs_readahead())

[Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>]

On 24/11/2022 18:04, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
> On 24. 11. 2022. 18:19, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 06:06:13PM +0100, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
>>> On 23. 11. 2022. 20:09, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> If you build with (say) CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=200, does
>>>>>> this still happen?
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, you don't need to rebuild the kernel to change those 
>>>>> parameters; they're
>>>>> module parameters, so can be modified on the kernel command line 
>>>>> (if needed
>>>>> during boot) and sysfs (if only needed after boot).
>>>>>
>>>>> For sysfs the syntax is:
>>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>> # set rcu timeouts to specified values
>>>>> echo 60 > /sys/module/rcupdate/parameters/rcu_cpu_stall_timeout
>>>>> echo 21000 > /sys/module/rcupdate/parameters/rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout
>>>>> echo 600000 > /sys/module/rcupdate/parameters/rcu_task_stall_timeout
>>>>> grep -Hs . /sys/module/rcupdate/parameters/rcu_*_timeout
>>>>
>>>> Excellent point, thank you!
>>>>
>>>> I hope that this makes Mirsad's life easier, perhaps featuring less 
>>>> time
>>>> waiting for kernel builds and reboots.  ;-)
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the first stall and NMI occurs before any system 
>>> script or setting a /sys/module/rcupdate/parameters/*
>>> could be executed, as second 14 of the boot process:
>>>
>>> [   14.320045] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on 
>>> CPUs/tasks: { 7-.... } 6 jiffies s: 105 root: 0x80/.
>>> [   14.320064] rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
> 
> ...
> 
>>> Probably something sensible should be set in the case of KASAN build. 
>>> This example of stall
>>> apparently has nothing to do with squashfs_readahead().
>>
>> Can't have everything, I guess!
>>
>> How about building your kernel with CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=200?
>> Again, mainline defaults to 21000.
> 
> Did just that, and so far there is no modprobe stall in second 14 of 
> boot at least. Looks good.
> Probably it is too early to say anything in general before more uptime 
> and stress load.
> 
> BTW, the 20 for CONFIG_RCU_EXP_STALL_TIMEOUT wasn't my invention, but it 
> comes from generic
> Ubuntu stock kernel (but without KASAN or KMEMLEAK config options):
> 
> # grep STALL /boot/config-5.19.5-051905-generic
> CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON=y
> # CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL is not set
> CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=60
> CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=20 > #

That has been raised as a bug, and a fix has been committed.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1991951


> 
> Thanks,
> Mirsad
> 
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