Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH 0/5] Take 3 at async RPCs and no longer looping forever on signals

[Dominique Martinet]

It's been a while but I didn't forget...

Dominique Martinet wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:16:38PM +0900:
> > Yes, apparently it tries to write dirty pages of the mapped file and keeps
> > hanging there [fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c:586]:
> 
> Yeah, it'd help to get the trace of the thread actually trying to do the
> IO, if it still exists.
> I had some hangs in the check that there are no flush in flight at some
> point, and I thought I fixed that, but I can't really see anywhere else
> that'd start hanging with this... it'll be clearer if I can reproduce.

I couldn't reproduce this one, but manually inspecting
p9_client_wait_flush again I noticed the wait_event_interruptible was
waiting on req->flushed_req->wq but looking at req->status in the
condition; that was an error.
Also, we have a ref on req->flushed_req but not on req, so
req->flushed_req wasn't safe.

I've changed the code to add a variable directly on req->flushed_req and
use it consistently, I'm not sure that's the problem you ran into but it
might help.
It's been a while but do you remember if that hang was consistently
happening on shutdown, or was it a one time thing?

Either way, I'd appreciate if you could try my 9p-test branch again:
https://github.com/martinetd/linux/commits/9p-test


With that said, I expect that p9_client_wait_req will cause hangs on
broken servers.
If connection drops hopefully the reqs will just be marked as error and
free the thread, but I can see syzbot complaining about yet another
thread stuck.. Well it's interruptible at least, and bails out on
ERESTARTSYS.


> Anyway, I found another bug, just running ./configure on a random project
> (picked coreutils tarball) fails with interrupted system call ?!

That other bug was weird, I could reproduce it reliably until I rebooted
the host because of an unrelated nfs bug on the host, and after reboot I
couldn't reproduce anymore.
I'll chalk it down to buggy host/weird happenstance, but something to
watch for if random EINTR happen again :/

-- 
Dominique