On 07/22/2015 03:58 PM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>> On 07/22/2015 10:17 AM, Frank Schreuder wrote:
>>> I got some additional information from syslog:
>>>
>>> Jul 22 09:49:33 dommy0 kernel: [ 675.987890] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft
>>> lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [kworker/3:1:42]
>>> Jul 22 09:49:42 dommy0 kernel: [ 685.114033] INFO: rcu_sched self-detected
>>> stall on CPU { 3} (t=39918 jiffies g=988 c=987 q=23168)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> It looks like it's happening because of the evict_again logic, I think we
>> should also
>> add Florian's first suggestion about simplifying it to the patch and just
>> skip the
>> entry if we can't delete its timer otherwise we can restart the eviction and
>> see
>> entries that already had their timer stopped by us and can keep restarting
>> for
>> a long time.
>> Here's an updated patch that removes the evict_again logic.
>
> Thanks Nik. I'm afraid this adds bug when netns is exiting.
>
> Currently, we wait until timer has finished, but after the change
> we might destroy percpu counter while a timer is still executing on
> another cpu.
>
> I pushed a patch series to
> https://git.breakpoint.cc/cgit/fw/net.git/log/?h=inetfrag_fixes_02
>
> It includes this patch with a small change -- deferral of the percpu
> counter subtraction until after queue has been free'd.
>
> Frank -- it would be great if you could test with the four patches in
> that series applied.
>
> I'll then add your tested-by Tag to all of them before submitting this.
>
> Thanks again for all your help in getting this fixed!
>
Sure, I didn't think it through, just supplied it for the test. :-)
Thanks for fixing it up!
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