FreeBSD-HEAD gets stuck on vnode operations

[Roger Pau Monné]

On 13/05/13 17:00, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 04:33:04PM +0200, Roger Pau Monn? wrote:
>> On 13/05/13 13:18, Roger Pau Monn? wrote:

Thanks for taking a look,

>> I would like to explain this a little bit more, the syncer process
>> doesn't get blocked on the _mtx_trylock_flags_ call, it just continues
>> looping forever in what seems to be an endless loop around
>> mnt_vnode_next_active/ffs_sync. Also while in this state there is no
>> noticeable disk activity, so I'm unsure of what is happening.
> How many CPUs does your VM have ?

7 vCPUs, but I've also seen this issue with 4 and 16 vCPUs.

> 
> The loop you describing means that other thread owns the vnode
> interlock. Can you track what this thread does ? E.g. look at the
> vp->v_interlock.mtx_lock, which is basically a pointer to the struct
> thread owning the mutex, clear low bits as needed. Then you can
> inspect the thread and get a backtrace.

There are no other threads running, only syncer is running on CPU 1 (see
ps in previous email). All other CPUs are idle, and as seen from the ps
quite a lot of threads are blocked in vnode related operations, either
"*Name Cac", "*vnode_fr" or "*vnode in". I've also attached the output
of alllocks in the previous email.

> 
> Does the loop you described stuck on the same vnode during the whole
> lock-step time, or is the progress made, possibly slowly ?

I'm not sure how to measure "progress", but indeed the syncer process is
not locked, it is iterating over mnt_vnode_next_active.

> 
> I suppose that your HEAD is recent.

Last commit in my local repository is:

Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 12:39:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] By request, add an arrow from NetBSD-0.8 to FreeBSD-1.0.

While here, add a few more NetBSD versions to the tree itself.

Submitted by:   Alan Barrett <apb at cequrux.com>
Submitted by:   Thomas Klausner <wiz at netbsd.org>