On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:51:55 +0100 (BST)
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk> wrote:

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> I am experiencing hung tasks when trying to rmdir() on a cgroup. One task 
> spins, others queue up behind it with the following:
> 
>   INFO: task soaked-cgroup:27257 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>   "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
>   soaked-cgrou D ffff8800058157c0     0 27257  29411 0x00000000
>   ffff88004ffffdd8 0000000000000086 ffff88004ffffda8 ffff88004ffffeb8
>   0000000000000010 ffff880119813780 ffff88004ffffd48 ffff88004fffffd8
>   ffff88004fffffd8 000000000000f9b0 00000000000157c0 ffff880137693268
>   Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff81115edb>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x24/0xe7
>   [<ffffffff81427acd>] __mutex_lock_common+0x14d/0x1b4
>   [<ffffffff81108a7c>] ? path_put+0x1d/0x22
>   [<ffffffff81427b48>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x14/0x16
>   [<ffffffff81427c4f>] mutex_lock+0x31/0x4b
>   [<ffffffff8110bdf8>] do_rmdir+0x74/0x102
>   [<ffffffff8110bebd>] sys_rmdir+0x11/0x13
>   [<ffffffff81009b02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> 
> Kernel is from Fedora, 2.6.33.6. In all cases the cgroup contains no 
> tasks.
> 
> Commit ec64f5 ("fix frequent -EBUSY at rmdir") adds a busy wait loop to 
> the rmdir. It looks like what I am seeing here and indicates that some 
> cgroup subsystem is busy, indefinitely.
> 

Hmm. really spin ? sleeping-forever-no-wake-up ?

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> I have not worked out how to reproduce it quickly. My only way is to 
> complete a 'dd' command in the cgroup, but then the problem is so rare it 
> is slow progress.
> 
please show how-to-reproduce in your way.
And what cgroup is mounted ? memory cgroup only ?

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> Documentation/cgroup.memory.txt describes how force_empty can be required 
> in some cases. 

Ah, maybe that's wrong text. rmdir() calls force-empty automatically.

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> Does this mean that with the patch above, these cases will 
> now spin on rmdir(), instead of returning -EBUSY? How can produce a 
> reliable test case requiring memory.force_empty to be used, to test this?
> 

Hmm. I'm not sure fedora-kernel has other (its own) featrues than stock kernel.
I'm grad if you can check it can happen in stock kernel, 2.6.35.

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> Or is it likely to be some other cause, and how best to find it?
> 

At the first look, above mutex is the mutex in do_rmdir(), not kernel/cgroup.c
Then, rmdir doesn't seem to reach cgroup code...
Do you do another operation on the directory while rmdir is called ?

Thanks,
-Kame


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