Re: [PATCH v4 19/19] fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 02:15:29PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 19:33 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:00:19PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 18:29 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > 
> > (...)
> > 
> > > > > Ok, thanks. If you're seeing hangs then that might imply that we have
> > > > > some sort of excessive looping going on in the cmpxchg loops.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Could you apply the patch below and let me know if it causes either of
> > > > > the warnings to pop? That might at least point us in the right
> > > > > direction:
> > > > 
> > > > No new warnings with attached patch (except existing already lockdep:
> > > > "INFO: trying to register non-static key.").
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I saw that in the original logs and it looks unrelated (and
> > > harmless).
> > > 
> > > > Systemd timeouts on mounting /home but after entering rescue shell there
> > > > is no problem running mount /home:
> > > > 	Give root password for maintenance
> > > > 	(or press Control-D to continue): 
> > > > 	root@odroidxu3:~# mount /home
> > > > 	[  220.659331] EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok, thanks for testing it. So I guess we can probably rule out excessive
> > > looping in those functions as the issue.
> > > 
> > > To make sure I understand the problem: When systemd tries to do the
> > > initial mount of /home (which is an ext4 filesystem), it hangs. But once
> > > it drops to the shell, it works, if you do the mount by hand.
> > > 
> > > Is that correct?
> > 
> > Yes, although it also timeouts on setting up /dev/ttySAC2 (serial
> > console).
> > 
> > > If so, then is it possible to trigger sysrq commands during the hanging
> > > mount attempt? Maybe you could use e.g. sysrq-l, sysrq-w, etc. to
> > > determine what it's blocking on?
> 
> (trimming the output)
> 
> Thanks. I don't really see anything obvious in that info,
> unfortunately. What we really need to do is find the systemd task
> performing the mount, and see what it's doing.

It's systemd 236.0-2 coming from Arch Linux for ARM. All packages are
updated.

> We do have one questionable bug in the NFS changes though. Does this
> patch help at all?

Patches do not change anything (I tried "SQUASH: nfs: fix i_version
increment when adding a request" and "SQUASH: ext4: use raw API for
xattr inode refcounts").

I tried again regular SDcard-root boot and it succeeded. Only nfsroot
fails.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> 
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> 
> SQUASH: nfs: fix i_version increment when adding a request
> 
> NFS treats this value as an opaque value with no flag, so we must
> increment it as such instead of using inode_inc_iversion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
> index a03fbac1f88c..48837b6250e9 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/write.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
> @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static void nfs_inode_add_request(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_page *req)
>  	spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
>  	if (!nfs_have_writebacks(inode) &&
>  	    NFS_PROTO(inode)->have_delegation(inode, FMODE_WRITE))
> -		inode_inc_iversion(inode);
> +		atomic64_inc(&inode->i_version);
>  	if (likely(!PageSwapCache(req->wb_page))) {
>  		set_bit(PG_MAPPED, &req->wb_flags);
>  		SetPagePrivate(req->wb_page);
> -- 
> 2.14.3
>