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DISCUSSION Stefan Priebe 3 participants 7 messages Aug 1, 2015 – Aug 22, 2015 bcache (block layer cache)

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Hi,

any ideas about this deadlock:

2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache4:2433 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task bcache_writebac:683 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task bcache_writebac:679 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task bcache_writebac:675 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task bcache_writebac:671 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task bcache_writebac:667 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task bcache_writebac:654 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task kswapd0:79 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task kthreadd:2 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

Stefan

#1 lore raw
Quoted 8 lines · Stefan Priebe

Hi,

any ideas about this deadlock:

2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more

than 120 seconds.

No backtrace?

#2 lore raw

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:21 schrieb Ming Lin:

Quoted 12 lines · Stefan Priebe
Quoted 8 lines

Hi,

any ideas about this deadlock:

2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more

than 120 seconds.

No backtrace?

Yes, no backtrace.

Stefan

#3 lore raw

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:25 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:

Quoted 13 lines

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:21 schrieb Ming Lin:

Quoted 10 lines · Stefan Priebe
Quoted 8 lines

Hi,

any ideas about this deadlock:

2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more

than 120 seconds.

Quoted 4 lines
Quoted 2 lines

No backtrace?

Yes, no backtrace.

Any chance or idea to fix this? This happens every day at a different server and is really annoying.

Stefan

#4 lore raw

Have you checked on the server when this deadlock happened?

From my experience, you will get a trace for the warning.

2015-08-10 16:51 GMT+02:00 Stefan Priebe <[email protected]>:

Quoted 35 lines

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:25 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:

Quoted 19 lines

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:21 schrieb Ming Lin:

Quoted 15 lines
Quoted 10 lines · Stefan Priebe

Hi,

any ideas about this deadlock:

2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 >
/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more

than 120 seconds.

Quoted 4 lines
Quoted 2 lines

No backtrace?

Yes, no backtrace.

Any chance or idea to fix this? This happens every day at a different server and is really annoying.

Stefan
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#5 lore raw

Hi,
Am 12.08.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Jack Wang:

Quoted 3 lines

Have you checked on the server when this deadlock happened?

From my experience, you will get a trace for the warning.

sadly there is no trace as it seems the kworker is running in an endless loop.

I don't have the abbility to login - the system is running with a load of 2000 or even 3000.

From the logs i've gathered the following informations:

top with running processes shows only kworker running on 100% CPU.

top - 15:02:31 up 10 days, 16:20, 1 user, load average: 2494,67, 1878,69, 905,
Tasks: 226 total, 2 running, 222 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0,9 us, 12,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 36,4 id, 50,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si,
0,0 st

KiB Mem:  49431532 total, 48672808 used,   758724 free,       52 buffers
KiB Swap:  3906556 total,   152772 used,  3753784 free, 40328600 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21963 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100,5 0,0 9:15.48
[kworker/u16:3]
29978 root 20 0 62488 20m 6892 S 8,0 0,0 0:02.59
/usr/bin/python /

iotop shows the same kworker permanently writing with > 1400MB/s.

Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s
PID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO COMMAND
29978 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 14.69 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % python
/usr/sbin/iotop -b -d 1 -n 30 -P
21963 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 1428.89 M/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/u16:3]

To me this looks like an endless loop which could also explain why there is no stack trace.

Greets,
Stefan

Quoted 42 lines

2015-08-10 16:51 GMT+02:00 Stefan Priebe <[email protected]>:

Quoted 30 lines

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:25 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:

Quoted 19 lines

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:21 schrieb Ming Lin:

Quoted 15 lines
Quoted 10 lines · Stefan Priebe

Hi,

any ideas about this deadlock:

2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 >
/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more

than 120 seconds.

Quoted 4 lines
Quoted 2 lines

No backtrace?

Yes, no backtrace.

Any chance or idea to fix this? This happens every day at a different server and is really annoying.

Quoted 5 lines

Stefan
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#6 lore raw

It seems to work since i disabled irqbalance. Is this problematic for bcache?

Stefan

Am 12.08.2015 um 15:57 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:

Quoted 86 lines

Hi,
Am 12.08.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Jack Wang:

Quoted 3 lines

Have you checked on the server when this deadlock happened?

From my experience, you will get a trace for the warning.

sadly there is no trace as it seems the kworker is running in an endless loop.

I don't have the abbility to login - the system is running with a load of 2000 or even 3000.

From the logs i've gathered the following informations:

top with running processes shows only kworker running on 100% CPU.

top - 15:02:31 up 10 days, 16:20, 1 user, load average: 2494,67, 1878,69, 905,
Tasks: 226 total, 2 running, 222 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0,9 us, 12,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 36,4 id, 50,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si,
0,0 st

KiB Mem:  49431532 total, 48672808 used,   758724 free,       52 buffers
KiB Swap:  3906556 total,   152772 used,  3753784 free, 40328600 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21963 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100,5 0,0 9:15.48
[kworker/u16:3]
29978 root 20 0 62488 20m 6892 S 8,0 0,0 0:02.59
/usr/bin/python /

iotop shows the same kworker permanently writing with > 1400MB/s.

Total DISK READ:       0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE:       0.00 B/s
   PID  PRIO  USER     DISK READ  DISK WRITE  SWAPIN      IO    COMMAND
29978 be/4 root        0.00 B/s   14.69 K/s  0.00 %  0.00 % python

/usr/sbin/iotop -b -d 1 -n 30 -P
21963 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 1428.89 M/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/u16:3]

To me this looks like an endless loop which could also explain why there is no stack trace.

Greets,
Stefan

Quoted 42 lines

2015-08-10 16:51 GMT+02:00 Stefan Priebe <[email protected]>:

Quoted 30 lines

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:25 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:

Quoted 19 lines

Am 03.08.2015 um 08:21 schrieb Ming Lin:

Quoted 15 lines
Quoted 10 lines · Stefan Priebe

Hi,

any ideas about this deadlock:

2015-08-01 00:05:05     "echo 0 >
/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
disables this message.
2015-08-01 00:05:05     Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1
2015-08-01 00:05:05     INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more

than 120 seconds.

Quoted 4 lines
Quoted 2 lines

No backtrace?

Yes, no backtrace.

Any chance or idea to fix this? This happens every day at a different server and is really annoying.

Quoted 5 lines

Stefan
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