Re: md_raid: mdX_raid6 looping after sync_action "check" to "idle" transition

[Guoqing Jiang]

On 1/26/21 13:58, Donald Buczek wrote:
> > Hmm, how about wake the waiter up in the while loop of raid5d?
> >
> > @@ -6520,6 +6532,11 @@ static void raid5d(struct md_thread *thread)
> >                          md_check_recovery(mddev);
> >                          spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
> >                  }
> > +
> > +               if ((atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes)
> > +                    < (conf->max_nr_stripes * 3 / 4) ||
> > +                    (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery))))
> > +                       wake_up(&conf->wait_for_stripe);
> >          }
> >          pr_debug("%d stripes handled\n", handled);
>
> Hmm... With this patch on top of your other one, we still have the basic 
> symptoms (md3_raid6 busy looping), but the sync thread is now hanging at
>
>      root@sloth:~# cat /proc/$(pgrep md3_resync)/stack
>      [<0>] md_do_sync.cold+0x8ec/0x97c
>      [<0>] md_thread+0xab/0x160
>      [<0>] kthread+0x11b/0x140
>      [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>
> instead, which is 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/md/md.c#L8963

Not sure why recovery_active is not zero, because it is set 0 before 
blk_start_plug, and raid5_sync_request returns 0 and skipped is also set 
to 1. Perhaps handle_stripe calls md_done_sync.

Could you double check the value of recovery_active? Or just don't wait 
if resync thread is interrupted.

wait_event(mddev->recovery_wait,
	   test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR,&mddev->recovery) ||
	   !atomic_read(&mddev->recovery_active));

> And, unlike before, "md: md3: data-check interrupted." from the pr_info 
> two lines above appears in dmesg.

Yes, that is intentional since MD_RECOVERY_INTR is set by write idle.

Anyway, will try the script and investigate more about the issue.

Thanks,
Guoqing