[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] Bug#841144: kernel BUG at /build/linux-Wgpe2M/linux-4.8.11/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c:1514!

Changwei Ge ge.changwei at h3c.com
Thu Nov 23 23:03:54 PST 2017


Hi Alex,
I just reviewed your patch and a few questions were come up with.

On 2017/11/24 13:49, alex chen wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I think a better method to solve this problem.
> 
> On 2017/11/22 5:05, John Lightsey wrote:
>> On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 05:58 +0000, Changwei Ge wrote:
>>
>>> Can your tell me how did you format your volume?
>>> What's your _cluster size_ and _block size_?
>>> Your can obtain such information via debugfs.ocfs2 <your volume> -R
>>> 'stats' | grep 'Cluster Size'
>>>
>>> It's better for you provide a way to reproduce this issue so that we
>>> can
>>> perform some test.
>>>
>>
>> The issue recurred in our cluster today, so at best my patch is just
>> decreasing the frequency of the crashes.
> 
> We need to check the free number of the records in each loop to mark extent written,
> because the last extent block may be changed through many times marking extent written
> and the num_free_extents also be changed. In the worst case, the num_free_extents may
> become less than at the beginning of the loop. So we should not estimate the free
> number of the records at the beginning of the loop to mark extent written.
> 

 From John's description, ::dw_zero_count was not calculated properly 
and your patch seems not to address this issue. Do you agree that it's 
possible that we get a wrong ::dw_zero_count?

> I'd appreciate it if you could test the following patch and feedback the result.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Chen <alex.chen at huawei.com>
> ---
>   fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>   1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
> index d151632..80725f2 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
> @@ -2272,6 +2272,35 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_wr_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
>   	return ret;
>   }
> 
> +static int ocfs2_dio_should_restart(struct ocfs2_extent_tree *et,
> +		struct ocfs2_alloc_context *meta_ac, int max_rec_needed)
> +{
> +	int status = 0, free_extents;
> +
> +	free_extents = ocfs2_num_free_extents(et);
> +	if (free_extents < 0) {
> +		status = free_extents;
> +		mlog_errno(status);
> +		return status;
> +	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * there are two cases which could cause us to EAGAIN in the
> +	 * we-need-more-metadata case:
> +	 * 1) we haven't reserved *any*
> +	 * 2) we are so fragmented, we've needed to add metadata too
> +	 *    many times.

What does point 2 mean?

> +	 */
> +	if (free_extents < max_rec_needed) {
> +		if (!meta_ac || (ocfs2_alloc_context_bits_left(meta_ac)
> +				< ocfs2_extend_meta_needed(et->et_root_el)))
> +			status = 1;
> +	}
> +
> +	return status;
> +}
> +
> +#define OCFS2_MAX_REC_NEED_SPLIT 2

Um, I don't figure why the Maximum value is 2, I suppose this is less 
than previously estimated one.

>   static int ocfs2_dio_end_io_write(struct inode *inode,
>   				  struct ocfs2_dio_write_ctxt *dwc,
>   				  loff_t offset,
> @@ -2281,14 +2310,13 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_end_io_write(struct inode *inode,
>   	struct ocfs2_extent_tree et;
>   	struct ocfs2_super *osb = OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb);
>   	struct ocfs2_inode_info *oi = OCFS2_I(inode);
> -	struct ocfs2_unwritten_extent *ue = NULL;
> +	struct ocfs2_unwritten_extent *ue = NULL, *tmp_ue;
>   	struct buffer_head *di_bh = NULL;
>   	struct ocfs2_dinode *di;
> -	struct ocfs2_alloc_context *data_ac = NULL;
>   	struct ocfs2_alloc_context *meta_ac = NULL;
>   	handle_t *handle = NULL;
>   	loff_t end = offset + bytes;
> -	int ret = 0, credits = 0, locked = 0;
> +	int ret = 0, credits = 0, locked = 0, restart_func = 0;

I think _ restart_func_ is not named properly. Can we change it into 
realloc or something like that?

> 
>   	ocfs2_init_dealloc_ctxt(&dealloc);
> 
> @@ -2330,8 +2358,9 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_end_io_write(struct inode *inode,
> 
>   	ocfs2_init_dinode_extent_tree(&et, INODE_CACHE(inode), di_bh);
> 
> -	ret = ocfs2_lock_allocators(inode, &et, 0, dwc->dw_zero_count*2,
> -				    &data_ac, &meta_ac);
> +restart_all:
> +	ret = ocfs2_lock_allocators(inode, &et, 0, OCFS2_MAX_REC_NEED_SPLIT,
> +				    NULL, &meta_ac);
>   	if (ret) {
>   		mlog_errno(ret);
>   		goto unlock;
> @@ -2343,7 +2372,7 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_end_io_write(struct inode *inode,
>   	if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
>   		ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
>   		mlog_errno(ret);
> -		goto unlock;
> +		goto free_ac;
>   	}
>   	ret = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(inode), di_bh,
>   				      OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE);
> @@ -2352,7 +2381,17 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_end_io_write(struct inode *inode,
>   		goto commit;
>   	}
> 
> -	list_for_each_entry(ue, &dwc->dw_zero_list, ue_node) {
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(ue, tmp_ue, &dwc->dw_zero_list, ue_node) {
> +		ret = ocfs2_dio_should_restart(&et, meta_ac,
> +				OCFS2_MAX_REC_NEED_SPLIT * 2);

Why extent block's free record number would change during marking 
written, which compels code path has to re-alloc.

Thanks,
Changwei

> +		if (ret < 0) {
> +			mlog_errno(ret);
> +			break;
> +		} else if (ret == 1) {
> +			restart_func = 1;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
>   		ret = ocfs2_mark_extent_written(inode, &et, handle,
>   						ue->ue_cpos, 1,
>   						ue->ue_phys,
> @@ -2361,24 +2400,37 @@ static int ocfs2_dio_end_io_write(struct inode *inode,
>   			mlog_errno(ret);
>   			break;
>   		}
> +
> +		dwc->dw_zero_count--;
> +		list_del_init(&ue->ue_node);
> +		spin_lock(&oi->ip_lock);
> +		list_del_init(&ue->ue_ip_node);
> +		spin_unlock(&oi->ip_lock);
> +		kfree(ue);
>   	}
> 
> -	if (end > i_size_read(inode)) {
> +	if (!restart_func && end > i_size_read(inode)) {
>   		ret = ocfs2_set_inode_size(handle, inode, di_bh, end);
>   		if (ret < 0)
>   			mlog_errno(ret);
>   	}
> +
>   commit:
>   	ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle);
> +free_ac:
> +	if (meta_ac) {
> +		ocfs2_free_alloc_context(meta_ac);
> +		meta_ac = NULL;
> +	}
> +	if (restart_func) {
> +		restart_func = 0;
> +		goto restart_all;
> +	}
>   unlock:
>   	up_write(&oi->ip_alloc_sem);
>   	ocfs2_inode_unlock(inode, 1);
>   	brelse(di_bh);
>   out:
> -	if (data_ac)
> -		ocfs2_free_alloc_context(data_ac);
> -	if (meta_ac)
> -		ocfs2_free_alloc_context(meta_ac);
>   	ocfs2_run_deallocs(osb, &dealloc);
>   	if (locked)
>   		inode_unlock(inode);
> 




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