High IO load cause kswapd hang and unresponsive system

Naruto Nguyen narutonguyen2018 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 04:36:31 EST 2018 

Hi Mulyadi,

Thanks for your answer. I have updated to kernel 4.4.121 but the issue
still exists. I will try to update to kernel 4.4.163. But if you could
provide any reason that why i did not see the issue in the 3.12 kernel and
now it happens in 4.4, any changes in 4.4 can trigger the issue? And if
kernel 4.4.163 has any changes to fix the issue?

Thanks,
Naruto

On Friday, 16 November 2018, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:57 PM Naruto Nguyen <narutonguyen2018 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Recently when I upgrade my kernel from 3.12.61 to kernel 4.4.74, I
>>
>
> Hi.
>
> You need to upgrade, either using 4.19.2, 4.18.2, or 4.4.163 (if you
> prefer to stay with 4.4.x) and see if it still happens
>
> find my system sometimes is very slow and unresponsive
>>
>> When my system is under a heavy IO load, I see the node start to
>> respond very slow, the IO wait time keeps very high, and the node
>> starts unresponsive. I try to dump all block task at that time and
>> found some interesting things, look like under a heavy load I/O, the
>> kswap start to hang in jbd2_log_wait_commit.
>>
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126514] kswapd0         D
>> 0000000000000000     0    26      2 0x00000000
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126517]  ffff88003da27b78
>> ffff88000ce08280 ffff88003cdf0680 ffff88003da28000
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126519]  ffff88001a15c888
>> ffff88001a15c824 ffff88003da27bb8 ffff88001a15c8a0
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126521]  ffff88003da27b90
>> ffffffff815e4c85 ffff88001a15c800 0000000000013183
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126522] Call Trace:
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126539]  [<ffffffff815e4c85>]
>> schedule+0x35/0x80
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126561]  [<ffffffffa02faada>]
>> jbd2_log_wait_commit+0x8a/0xf0 [jbd2]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126621]  [<ffffffffa03b28a4>]
>> ext4_evict_inode+0x2d4/0x4b0 [ext4]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126630]  [<ffffffff81215a7a>]
>> evict+0xba/0x190
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126635]  [<ffffffff81215b82>]
>> dispose_list+0x32/0x50
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126639]  [<ffffffff81216e52>]
>> prune_icache_sb+0x42/0x50
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126644]  [<ffffffff811ff8f6>]
>> super_cache_scan+0x136/0x180
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126653]  [<ffffffff81196a1b>]
>> shrink_slab.part.41+0x20b/0x3f0
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.126521]  ffff88003da27b90
>> ffffffff815e4c85 ffff88001a15c800 0000000000013183
>>
>> And after that more and more processes are hitting STAT D, nfsd is
>> hang to wait or the inode deletion to complete in
>> __wait_on_freeing_inode.
>>
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390218] nfsd            D
>> 0000000000000000     0 30419      2 0x00000080
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390221]  ffff88000da47a98
>> ffff8800277ec380 ffff8800374ec580 ffff88000da48000
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390223]  ffff88000da47ad8
>> ffffc9000011edc8 0000000000000000 ffff88000e92e2f8
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390225]  ffff88000da47ab0
>> ffffffff815e4c85 ffffffff81c094c0 ffff88003ff9d8b8
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390225] Call Trace:
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390231]  [<ffffffff815e4c85>]
>> schedule+0x35/0x80
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390236]  [<ffffffff812157fc>]
>> __wait_on_freeing_inode+0x9c/0xc0
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390241]  [<ffffffff81215d83>]
>> find_inode_fast+0x73/0xa0
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390245]  [<ffffffff81216052>]
>> iget_locked+0x72/0x190
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390284]  [<ffffffffa03aeb8c>]
>> ext4_iget+0x2c/0xb10 [ext4]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390314]  [<ffffffffa03c1055>]
>> ext4_nfs_get_inode+0x45/0x80 [ext4]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390320]  [<ffffffff812211c4>]
>> generic_fh_to_dentry+0x24/0x30
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390326]  [<ffffffff81277ede>]
>> exportfs_decode_fh+0x5e/0x350
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390347]  [<ffffffffa047749a>]
>> fh_verify+0x2da/0x5a0 [nfsd]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390362]  [<ffffffffa0480933>]
>> nfsd3_proc_getattr+0x63/0xd0 [nfsd]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390374]  [<ffffffffa0473e23>]
>> nfsd_dispatch+0xc3/0x260 [nfsd]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390411]  [<ffffffffa0322108>]
>> svc_process_common+0x418/0x6a0 [sunrpc]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390439]  [<ffffffffa032248d>]
>> svc_process+0xfd/0x1b0 [sunrpc]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.390454]  [<ffffffffa047389a>]
>> nfsd+0xea/0x160 [nfsd]
>>
>> That causes the other nfs client is hang to wait nfsd to continue.
>>
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.207987] Call Trace:
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.207994]  [<ffffffff815e4c85>]
>> schedule+0x35/0x80
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.208008]  [<ffffffffa031acce>]
>> rpc_wait_bit_killable+0x1e/0xa0 [sunrpc]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.208055]  [<ffffffff815e5098>]
>> __wait_on_bit+0x58/0x90
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.208059]  [<ffffffff815e513e>]
>> out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6e/0x80
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.208082]  [<ffffffffa031bd26>]
>> __rpc_execute+0x146/0x440 [sunrpc]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.208104]  [<ffffffffa0313049>]
>> rpc_run_task+0x69/0x80 [sunrpc]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.208126]  [<ffffffffa031309f>]
>> rpc_call_sync+0x3f/0xa0 [sunrpc]
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.204818]  [<ffffffff81200d69>]
>> vfs_fstatat+0x49/0x90
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.204821]  [<ffffffff812011ea>]
>> SYSC_newstat+0x1a/0x40
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.204826]  [<ffffffff815e876e>]
>> entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6d
>> Sep 07 12:25:35 myPC kernel: [11039.207972] DWARF2 unwinder stuck at
>> entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6d
>>
>> I guess under heavy load, somehow the inode cannot be evicted in
>> kswap, so the nfsd just keeps waiting and cause the whole system ends
>> up in unresponsive state. I found some related issues
>> https://www.systutorials.com/linux-kernels/105429/nfsv4-1-
>> prevent-a-3-way-deadlock-between-layoutreturn-open-and-
>> state-recovery-linux-3-12-17/
>> (it’s not the same as it’s nfsv4 but just refer for the same symptom.)
>>
>> My system has very limited resource, only 1 core and  1GB RAM and the
>> issue is very easy to happen in a slow disk. However, I did not see
>> the same issue in the older kernel 3.12.61. Could you please let me
>> know if my analysis makes sense, if jbd2_log_wait_commit hang causes
>> __wait_on_freeing_inode wait ? Is it a known issue in kernel? If any
>> kernel change causes the issue?. And if we have any WA to avoid that
>> like preventing kswapd kicks in (I have a 5G swap partition) or to
>> make my system is not unresponsive like that (of course it is not to
>> add more RAM :) ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Brs,
>> Naruto
>>
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>
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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