ZFS hang in production on 8.2-RELEASE

Artem Belevich art at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 29 20:25:43 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Luke Marsden
<luke-lists at hybrid-logic.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just noticed a "partial" ZFS deadlock in production on 8.2-RELEASE.
>
> FreeBSD XXX 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0 r219081M: Wed Mar  2
> 08:29:52 CET 2011     root at www4:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> There are 9 'zfs rename' processes and 1 'zfs umount -f' processes hung.
> Here is the procstat for the 'zfs umount -f':
>
> 13451 104337 zfs              -                mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_wait+0x42 _sleep+0x317 zfsvfs_teardown+0x269 zfs_umount+0x1c4
> dounmount+0x32a unmount+0x38b syscallenter+0x1e5 syscall+0x4b
> Xfast_syscall+0xe2
>
> And the 'zfs rename's all look the same:
>
> 20361 101049 zfs              -                mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_wait+0x42 __lockmgr_args+0x743 vop_stdlock+0x39 VOP_LOCK1_APV
> +0x46 _vn_lock+0x47 lookup+0x6e1 namei+0x53a kern_rmdirat+0xa4
> syscallenter+0x1e5 syscall+0x4b Xfast_syscall+0xe2
>
> An 'ls' on a directory which contains most of the system's ZFS
> mount-points (/hcfs) also hangs:
>
> 30073 101466 gnuls            -                mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_wait+0x42 __lockmgr_args+0x743 vop_stdlock+0x39 VOP_LOCK1_APV
> +0x46 _vn_lock+0x47 zfs_root+0x85 lookup+0x9b8 namei+0x53a vn_open_cred
> +0x3ac kern_openat+0x181 syscallenter+0x1e5 syscall+0x4b Xfast_syscall
> +0xe2
>
> If I truss the 'ls' it hangs on the stat syscall:
> stat("/hcfs",{ mode=drwxr-xr-x ,inode=3,size=2012,blksize=16384 }) = 0
> (0x0)
>
> There is also a 'find -s / ! ( -fstype zfs ) -prune -or -path /tmp
> -prune -or -path /usr/tmp -prune -or -path /var/tmp -prune -or
> -path /var/db/portsnap -prune -or -print' running which is also hung:
>
>  2650 101674 find             -                mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_wait+0x42 __lockmgr_args+0x743 vop_stdlock+0x39 VOP_LOCK1_APV
> +0x46 _vn_lock+0x47 zfs_root+0x85 lookup+0x9b8 namei+0x53a vn_open_cred
> +0x3ac kern_openat+0x181 syscallenter+0x1e5 syscall+0x4b Xfast_syscall
> +0xe2
>
> However I/O to the presently mounted filesystems continues to work (even
> on parts of filesystems which are unlikely to be cached), and 'zfs list'
> showing all the filesystems (3,500 filesystems with ~100 snapshots per
> filesystem) also works.
>
> Any activity on the structure of the ZFS hierarchy *under the hcfs
> filesystem* crashes, such as a 'zfs create hpool/hcfs/test':
>
> 70868 101874 zfs              -                mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_wait+0x42 __lockmgr_args+0x743 vop_stdlock+0x39 VOP_LOCK1_APV
> +0x46 _vn_lock+0x47 lookup+0x6e1 namei+0x53a kern_mkdirat+0xce
> syscallenter+0x1e5 syscall+0x4b Xfast_syscall+0xe2
>
> BUT "zfs create hpool/system/opt/hello" (a ZFS filesystem in the same
> pool, but not rooted on hpool/hcfs) does not hang, and succeeds
> normally.
>
> procstat -kk on the zfskern process gives:
>
>  PID    TID COMM             TDNAME
> KSTACK
>    5 100045 zfskern          arc_reclaim_thre mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_timedwait+0x42 _cv_timedwait+0x134 arc_reclaim_thread+0x2a9
> fork_exit+0x118 fork_trampoline+0xe
>    5 100046 zfskern          l2arc_feed_threa mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_timedwait+0x42 _cv_timedwait+0x134 l2arc_feed_thread+0x1ce
> fork_exit+0x118 fork_trampoline+0xe
>    5 100098 zfskern          txg_thread_enter mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_wait+0x42 _cv_wait+0x129 txg_thread_wait+0x79 txg_quiesce_thread
> +0xb5 fork_exit+0x118 fork_trampoline+0xe
>    5 100099 zfskern          txg_thread_enter mi_switch+0x176
> sleepq_timedwait+0x42 _cv_timedwait+0x134 txg_thread_wait+0x3c
> txg_sync_thread+0x365 fork_exit+0x118 fork_trampoline+0xe
>
> Any ideas on what might be causing this?

It sounds like the bug Martin Matuska has recently fixed in FreeBSD
and reported upstream to Illumos:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1313

The fix has been MFC'ed to 8-STABLE r224647 on Aug 4th.

--Artem

>
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>
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> Luke Marsden
> CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd.
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