From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>
Cc: Frank Schreuder <fschreuder@transip•nl>,
Johan Schuijt <johan@transip•nl>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
"nikolay@redhat•com" <nikolay@redhat•com>,
"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>,
"chutzpah@gentoo•org" <chutzpah@gentoo•org>,
Robin Geuze <robing@transip•nl>, netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reproducable panic eviction work queue
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:03:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55AFA295.1070600@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150722135855.GB8441@breakpoint.cc>
On 07/22/2015 03:58 PM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com> wrote:
>> On 07/22/2015 10:17 AM, Frank Schreuder wrote:
>>> I got some additional information from syslog:
>>>
>>> Jul 22 09:49:33 dommy0 kernel: [ 675.987890] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [kworker/3:1:42]
>>> Jul 22 09:49:42 dommy0 kernel: [ 685.114033] INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 3} (t=39918 jiffies g=988 c=987 q=23168)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> It looks like it's happening because of the evict_again logic, I think we should also
>> add Florian's first suggestion about simplifying it to the patch and just skip the
>> entry if we can't delete its timer otherwise we can restart the eviction and see
>> entries that already had their timer stopped by us and can keep restarting for
>> a long time.
>> Here's an updated patch that removes the evict_again logic.
>
> Thanks Nik. I'm afraid this adds bug when netns is exiting.
>
> Currently, we wait until timer has finished, but after the change
> we might destroy percpu counter while a timer is still executing on
> another cpu.
>
> I pushed a patch series to
> https://git.breakpoint.cc/cgit/fw/net.git/log/?h=inetfrag_fixes_02
>
> It includes this patch with a small change -- deferral of the percpu
> counter subtraction until after queue has been free'd.
>
> Frank -- it would be great if you could test with the four patches in
> that series applied.
>
> I'll then add your tested-by Tag to all of them before submitting this.
>
> Thanks again for all your help in getting this fixed!
>
Sure, I didn't think it through, just supplied it for the test. :-)
Thanks for fixing it up!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-22 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <F8D94413-90A2-4F80-AAA2-7A6AB57DF314@transip.nl>
2015-07-18 8:56 ` reproducable panic eviction work queue Eric Dumazet
2015-07-18 9:01 ` Johan Schuijt
2015-07-18 10:02 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-18 13:31 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-18 15:28 ` Johan Schuijt
2015-07-18 15:30 ` Johan Schuijt
2015-07-18 15:32 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-20 12:47 ` Frank Schreuder
2015-07-20 14:02 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-20 14:30 ` Florian Westphal
2015-07-21 11:50 ` Frank Schreuder
2015-07-21 18:34 ` Florian Westphal
2015-07-22 8:09 ` Frank Schreuder
2015-07-22 8:17 ` Frank Schreuder
2015-07-22 9:11 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-22 10:55 ` Frank Schreuder
2015-07-22 13:58 ` Florian Westphal
2015-07-22 14:03 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov [this message]
2015-07-22 14:14 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-07-22 15:31 ` Frank Schreuder
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