On 2016/2/23 17:15, Chao Yu wrote: Hi Chao, > Hi Yunlei, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: He YunLei [mailto:heyun...@huawei.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 3:03 PM >> To: Chao Yu; jaeg...@kernel.org; linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Cc: bintian.w...@huawei.com; 'Biao He' >> Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: avoid hungtask problem caused by >> losing wake_up >> >> On 2016/2/23 13:44, Chao Yu wrote: >>> Hi Yunlei, >> Hi Chao, >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Yunlei He [mailto:heyun...@huawei.com] >>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:08 PM >>>> To: chao2...@samsung.com; jaeg...@kernel.org; >>>> linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> Cc: bintian.w...@huawei.com; Yunlei He; Biao He >>>> Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: avoid hungtask problem caused by losing >>>> wake_up >>>> >>>> The D state of wait_on_all_pages_writeback should be waken by >>>> function f2fs_write_end_io when all writeback pages have been >>>> succesfully written to device. It's possible that wake_up comes >>>> between get_pages and io_schedule. Maybe in this case it will >>>> lost wake_up and still in D state even if all pages have been >>>> write back to device, and finally, the whole system will be into >>>> the hungtask state. >>> >>> I haven't encountered such issue so far, do you suffer this in real >>> world? >>> >> yes, I have encounter it, the whole file system is blocked at function >> wait_on_all_pages_writeback beyond 120s when write cp, and no error reported >> by storage device driver. > > Could this reproducible? If it could, could you please share the details. > And did this occur in a huge size f2fs image? > >>>> >>>> if (!get_pages(sbi, F2FS_WRITEBACK)) >>>> break; >>>> <--------- wake_up >>> >>> wake_up will put all tasks linked in sbi->cp_wait on run-queue, so >>> here it should be save to call io_schedule, after being rescheduled, >>> it will get the chance to check above condition to break out. >>> >>> Thanks, >> >> Here, we just doubt something weird may cause wait_on_all_pages_writeback >> could not be waken. Wake_up trigger only one time by last bio's end_io >> function, if the thread happen to miss it, the thread will be in D state >> forever. So we change the code to make wait_on_all_pages_writeback awaken >> periodically, then check the condition. > > Got it. > > The patch can fix issue that checkpointer will wait forever in case of > write_end_io was failed to call wake_up for some reason. > > But I doubt more that the reason we are stuck is there are remained pages > cached in bio buffer without being submitted. To make sure, maybe in > wait_on_all_pages_writeback we could add print info to see whether > sbi->write_io[].bio is valid or not. > We use tool dump f2fs_sb_info information and find that:
write_io[DATA].bio = 0; write_io[NODE].bio = 0; write_io[META].bio = 0; nr_pages[F2FS_WRITEBACK] = 0; nr_pages[F2FS_DIRTY_DENTS] = 0; nr_pages[F2FS_DIRTY_NODES] = 13; nr_pages[F2FS_DIRTY_META] = 0; nr_pages[F2FS_INMEM_PAGES] = 0; So we believe that the block device is ok! Thanks, > Thanks, > >> >>> >>>> io_schedule(); >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Yunlei He <heyun...@huawei.com> >>>> Signed-off-by: Biao He <hebi...@huawei.com> >>>> --- >>>> fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 2 +- >>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c >>>> index 2bac8a1..f55355d 100644 >>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c >>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c >>>> @@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ static void wait_on_all_pages_writeback(struct >>>> f2fs_sb_info *sbi) >>>> if (!get_pages(sbi, F2FS_WRITEBACK)) >>>> break; >>>> >>>> - io_schedule(); >>>> + io_schedule_timeout(5*HZ); >>>> } >>>> finish_wait(&sbi->cp_wait, &wait); >>>> } >>>> -- >>>> 1.9.1 >>> >>> >>> >>> . >>> > > > > . > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel