[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] NFS hangs in __ocfs2_cluster_lock due to race with ocfs2_unblock_lock

[Joseph Qi]

Hi Tariq,
As I know, global bitmap inode mutex will be held when doing allocation.
So how can it happen that EX and PR requests come concurrently int the
same node?

Thanks,
Joseph

On 2015/8/26 4:55, Tariq Saeed wrote:
> Orabug: 20933419
> 
> NFS on a 2 node ocfs2 cluster each node exporting dir. The lock causing
> the hang is the global bit map inode lock.  Node 1 is master, has
> the lock granted in PR mode; Node 2 is in the converting list (PR ->
> EX). There are no holders of the lock on the master node so it should
> downconvert to NL and grant EX to node 2 but that does not happen.
> BLOCKED + QUEUED in lock res are set and it is on osb blocked list.
> Threads are waiting in __ocfs2_cluster_lock on BLOCKED.  One thread wants
> EX, rest want PR. So it is as though the downconvert thread needs to be
> kicked to complete the conv.
> 
> The hang is caused by an EX req coming into  __ocfs2_cluster_lock on
> the heels of a PR req after it sets BUSY (drops l_lock, releasing EX
> thread), forcing the incoming EX to wait on BUSY without doing anything.
> PR has called ocfs2_dlm_lock, which  sets the node 1 lock from NL ->
> PR, queues ast.
> 
> At this time, upconvert (PR ->EX) arrives from node 2, finds conflict with
> node 1 lock in PR, so the lock res is put on dlm thread's dirty listt.
> 
> After ret from ocf2_dlm_lock, PR thread now waits behind EX on BUSY till
> awoken by ast.
> 
> Now it is dlm_thread that serially runs dlm_shuffle_lists, ast,  bast,
> in that order.  dlm_shuffle_lists ques a bast on behalf of node 2
> (which will be run by dlm_thread right after the ast).  ast does its
> part, sets UPCONVERT_FINISHING, clears BUSY and wakes its waiters. Next,
> dlm_thread runs  bast. It sets BLOCKED and kicks dc thread.  dc thread
> runs ocfs2_unblock_lock, but since UPCONVERT_FINISHING set, skips doing
> anything and reques.
> 
> Inside of __ocfs2_cluster_lock, since EX has been waiting on BUSY ahead
> of PR, it wakes up first, finds BLOCKED set and skips doing anything
> but clearing UPCONVERT_FINISHING (which was actually "meant" for the
> PR thread), and this time waits on BLOCKED.  Next, the PR thread comes
> out of wait but since UPCONVERT_FINISHING is not set, it skips updating
> the l_ro_holders and goes straight to wait on BLOCKED. So there, we
> have a hang! Threads in __ocfs2_cluster_lock wait on BLOCKED, lock
> res in osb blocked list. Only when dc thread is awoken, it will run
> ocfs2_unblock_lock and things will unhang.
> 
> One way to fix this is to wake the dc thread on the flag after clearing
> UPCONVERT_FINISHING
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Saeed <tariq.x.saeed at oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com>
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> index 8b23aa2..313c816 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> @@ -1390,6 +1390,7 @@ static int __ocfs2_cluster_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
>  	unsigned int gen;
>  	int noqueue_attempted = 0;
>  	int dlm_locked = 0;
> +	int kick_dc = 0;
>  
>  	if (!(lockres->l_flags & OCFS2_LOCK_INITIALIZED)) {
>  		mlog_errno(-EINVAL);
> @@ -1524,7 +1525,12 @@ update_holders:
>  unlock:
>  	lockres_clear_flags(lockres, OCFS2_LOCK_UPCONVERT_FINISHING);
>  
> +	/* ocfs2_unblock_lock reques on seeing OCFS2_LOCK_UPCONVERT_FINISHING */
> +	kick_dc = (lockres->l_flags & OCFS2_LOCK_BLOCKED);
> +
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lockres->l_lock, flags);
> +	if (kick_dc)
> +		ocfs2_wake_downconvert_thread(osb);
>  out:
>  	/*
>  	 * This is helping work around a lock inversion between the page lock
>