ZFS: Deadlock during vnode recycling

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at scsiguy.com
Tue Sep 18 15:14:20 UTC 2012


One of our systems became unresponsive due to an inability to recycle
vnodes.  We tracked this down to a deadlock in zfs_zget().  I've attached
the stack trace from the vnlru process to the end of this email.

We are currently testing the following patch. Since this issue is hard to
replicate I would appreciate review and feedback before I commit it to
FreeBSD.

Thanks,
Jusitn

Patch
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Change 635310 by justing at justing_ns1_spectrabsd on 2012/09/17 15:30:14

	For most vnode consumers of ZFS, the appropriate behavior
	when encountering a vnode that is in the process of being
	reclaimed is to wait for that process to complete and then
	allocate a new vnode.  This behavior is enforced in zfs_zget()
	by checking for the VI_DOOMED vnode flag.  In the case of
	the thread actually reclaiming the vnode, zfs_zget() must
	return the current vnode, otherwise a deadlock will occur.
	
	sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zfs_znode.h:
		Create a virtual znode field, z_reclaim_td, which is
		implemeted as a macro that redirects to z_task.ta_context.
	
		z_task is only used by the reclaim code to perform the
		final cleanup of a znode in a secondary thread.  Since
		this can only occur after any calls to zfs_zget(), it
		is safe to reuse the ta_context field.
	
	sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c:
		In zfs_freebsd_reclaim(), record curthread in the
		znode being reclaimed.
	
	sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_znode.c:
		o Null out z_reclaim_td when znode_ts are constructed.
	
		o In zfs_zget(), return a "doomed vnode" if the current
		  thread is actively reclaiming this object.

Affected files ...

... //SpectraBSD/stable/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zfs_znode.h#2 edit
... //SpectraBSD/stable/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c#3 edit
... //SpectraBSD/stable/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_znode.c#2 edit

Differences ...

==== //SpectraBSD/stable/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zfs_znode.h#2 (text) ====

@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@
 	struct task	z_task;
 } znode_t;
 
+#define	z_reclaim_td z_task.ta_context
 
 /*
  * Convert between znode pointers and vnode pointers

==== //SpectraBSD/stable/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c#3 (text) ====

@@ -6083,6 +6083,13 @@
 
 	ASSERT(zp != NULL);
 
+ 	/*
+	 * Mark the znode so that operations that typically block
+	 * waiting for reclamation to complete will return the current,
+	 * "doomed vnode", for this thread.
+	 */
+	zp->z_reclaim_td = curthread;
+
 	/*
 	 * Destroy the vm object and flush associated pages.
 	 */

==== //SpectraBSD/stable/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_znode.c#2 (text) ====

@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
 	zp->z_dirlocks = NULL;
 	zp->z_acl_cached = NULL;
 	zp->z_moved = 0;
+	zp->z_reclaim_td = NULL;
 	return (0);
 }
 
@@ -1192,7 +1193,8 @@
 				dying = 1;
 			else {
 				VN_HOLD(vp);
-				if ((vp->v_iflag & VI_DOOMED) != 0) {
+				if ((vp->v_iflag & VI_DOOMED) != 0 &&
+				    zp->z_reclaim_td != curthread) {
 					dying = 1;
 					/*
 					 * Don't VN_RELE() vnode here, because

vnlru_proc debug session
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#0  sched_switch (td=0xfffffe000f87b470, newtd=0xfffffe000d36c8e0, flags=Variable "flags" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1927
#1  0xffffffff8057f2b6 in mi_switch (flags=260, newtd=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:485
#2  0xffffffff805b8982 in sleepq_timedwait (wchan=0xfffffe05c7515640, pri=0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:658
#3  0xffffffff8057f89f in _sleep (ident=0xfffffe05c7515640, lock=0x0, priority=Variable "priority" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:246
#4  0xffffffff81093035 in zfs_zget (zfsvfs=0xfffffe001de4c000, obj_num=81963, zpp=0xffffff8c60dc51b0) at /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_znode.c:1224
#5  0xffffffff810bec9a in zfs_get_data (arg=0xfffffe001de4c000, lr=0xffffff820f5330b8, buf=0x0, zio=0xfffffe0584625000) at /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c:1142
#6  0xffffffff81096891 in zil_commit (zilog=0xfffffe001c382800, foid=Variable "foid" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zil.c:1048
#7  0xffffffff810bceb0 in zfs_freebsd_write (ap=Variable "ap" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c:1083
#8  0xffffffff8081f112 in VOP_WRITE_APV (vop=0xffffffff8112cf40, a=0xffffff8c60dc5680) at vnode_if.c:951
#9  0xffffffff807b1a6b in vnode_pager_generic_putpages (vp=0xfffffe05c76171e0, ma=0xffffff8c60dc5890, bytecount=Variable "bytecount" is not available.
) at vnode_if.h:413
#10 0xffffffff807b1749 in vnode_pager_putpages (object=0xfffffe05e9ee9bc8, m=0xffffff8c60dc5890, count=61440, sync=1, rtvals=0xffffff8c60dc57a0) at vnode_if.h:1189
#11 0xffffffff807aaee0 in vm_pageout_flush (mc=0xffffff8c60dc5890, count=15, flags=1, mreq=0, prunlen=0xffffff8c60dc594c, eio=0xffffff8c60dc59c0) at vm_pager.h:145
#12 0xffffffff807a3da3 in vm_object_page_collect_flush (object=Variable "object" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:936
#13 0xffffffff807a3f23 in vm_object_page_clean (object=0xfffffe05e9ee9bc8, start=Variable "start" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:861
#14 0xffffffff807a42d4 in vm_object_terminate (object=0xfffffe05e9ee9bc8) at /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:706
#15 0xffffffff807b241e in vnode_destroy_vobject (vp=0xfffffe05c76171e0) at /usr/src/sys/vm/vnode_pager.c:167
#16 0xffffffff810beec7 in zfs_freebsd_reclaim (ap=Variable "ap" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c:6146
#17 0xffffffff806101e1 in vgonel (vp=0xfffffe05c76171e0) at vnode_if.h:830
#18 0xffffffff80616379 in vnlru_proc () at /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:734

(kgdb) frame 4
#4  0xffffffff81093035 in zfs_zget (zfsvfs=0xfffffe001de4c000, obj_num=81963, zpp=0xffffff8c60dc51b0) at /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_znode.c:1224
1224                                    tsleep(zp, 0, "zcollide", 1);
(kgdb) l
1219                                    sa_buf_rele(db, NULL);
1220                                    mutex_exit(&zp->z_lock);
1221                                    ZFS_OBJ_HOLD_EXIT(zfsvfs, obj_num);
1222                                    if (vp != NULL)
1223                                            VN_RELE(vp);
1224                                    tsleep(zp, 0, "zcollide", 1);
1225                                    goto again;
1226                            }
1227                            *zpp = zp;
1228                            err = 0;
(kgdb)




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