David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 11:49 PM Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I get the following splats with a kvm guest in idle, after a few seconds >> it starts: >> >> [ 242.412806] INFO: task kworker/6:2:271 blockedfor more than 120 seconds. >> [ 242.415790] Tainted: G E 5.15.0-next-20211111 #68 >> [ 242.417755] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables >> this message. >> [ 242.418332] task:kworker/6:2 state:D stack: 0 pid: 271 ppid: 2 >> flags:0x00004000 >> [ 242.418954] Workqueue: events_freezable update_balloon_size_func >> [virtio_balloon] >> [ 242.419518] Call Trace: >> [ 242.419709] <TASK> >> [ 242.419873] __schedule+0x2fd/0x990 >> [ 242.420142] schedule+0x4e/0xc0 >> [ 242.420382] tell_host+0xaa/0xf0 [virtio_balloon] >> [ 242.420757] ? do_wait_intr_irq+0xa0/0xa0 >> [ 242.421065] update_balloon_size_func+0x2c9/0x2e0 [virtio_balloon] >> [ 242.421527] process_one_work+0x1e5/0x3c0 >> [ 242.421833] worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0 >> [ 242.422204] ? rescuer_thread+0x370/0x370 >> [ 242.422507] kthread+0x169/0x190 >> [ 242.422754] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 >> [ 242.423073] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 >> [ 242.423347] </TASK> >> >> And this goes on endlessly. The last one says it blocked for more than 1208 >> seconds. This was not happening until the last few weeks but I see no >> relevant recent commits for virtio_balloon, so the related change could >> be elsewhere. > > We're stuck somewhere in: > > wq: update_balloon_size_func()->fill_balloon()->tell_host() > > Most probably in wait_event(). > > > I am no waitqueue expert, but my best guess would be that we're > waiting more than 2 minutes > on a host reply with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. At least that's my interpretation, > > In case we're really stuck for more than 2 minutes, the hypervisor > might not be processing our > requests anymore -- or it's not getting processed for some other reason (or > the > waitqueue is not getting woken up due do some other BUG). > > IIUC, we can sleep longer via wait_event_interruptible(), TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE > seems to be the issue that triggers the warning. But by changing that > might just be hiding the fact that > we're waiting more than 2 minutes on a reply. > >> >> I could bisect but first I figured I'd check to see if someone already >> had spotted this. > > Bisecting would be awesome, then we might at least know if this is a > guest or a hypervisor issue.
I see this on ppc64le also. I bisected it to: # first bad commit: [939779f5152d161b34f612af29e7dc1ac4472fcf] virtio_ring: validate used buffer length I also reported it in the thread hanging off that patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ cheers _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
