On Wed 23-02-22 09:35:34, Byungchul Park wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 08:02:04PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
On Thu 17-02-22 20:10:04, Byungchul Park wrote:
[ 9.008161] =================================================== [ 9.008163] DEPT: Circular dependency has been detected. [ 9.008164] 5.17.0-rc1-00015-gb94f67143867-dirty #2 Tainted: G W [ 9.008166] --------------------------------------------------- [ 9.008167] summary [ 9.008167] --------------------------------------------------- [ 9.008168] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 9.008168] [ 9.008168] context A [ 9.008169] [S] (unknown)(&(&journal->j_wait_transaction_locked)->dmap:0) [ 9.008171] [W] wait(&(&journal->j_wait_commit)->dmap:0) [ 9.008172] [E] event(&(&journal->j_wait_transaction_locked)->dmap:0) [ 9.008173] [ 9.008173] context B [ 9.008174] [S] down_write(mapping.invalidate_lock:0) [ 9.008175] [W] wait(&(&journal->j_wait_transaction_locked)->dmap:0) [ 9.008176] [E] up_write(mapping.invalidate_lock:0) [ 9.008177] [ 9.008178] context C [ 9.008179] [S] (unknown)(&(&journal->j_wait_commit)->dmap:0) [ 9.008180] [W] down_write(mapping.invalidate_lock:0) [ 9.008181] [E] event(&(&journal->j_wait_commit)->dmap:0) [ 9.008181] [ 9.008182] [S]: start of the event context [ 9.008183] [W]: the wait blocked [ 9.008183] [E]: the event not reachable
So what situation is your tool complaining about here? Can you perhaps show it here in more common visualization like:
Sure.
TASK1 TASK2 does foo, grabs Z does X, grabs lock Y blocks on Z blocks on Y
or something like that? Because I was not able to decipher this from the report even after trying for some time...
KJOURNALD2(kthread) TASK1(ksys_write) TASK2(ksys_write)
wait A --- stuck wait B --- stuck wait C --- stuck
wake up B wake up C wake up A
where: A is a wait_queue, j_wait_commit B is a wait_queue, j_wait_transaction_locked C is a rwsem, mapping.invalidate_lock
I see. But a situation like this is not necessarily a guarantee of a deadlock, is it? I mean there can be task D that will eventually call say 'wake up B' and unblock everything and this is how things were designed to work? Multiple sources of wakeups are quite common I'd say... What does Dept do to prevent false reports in cases like this?
The above is the simplest form. And it's worth noting that Dept focuses on wait and event itself rather than grabing and releasing things like lock. The following is the more descriptive form of it.
KJOURNALD2(kthread) TASK1(ksys_write) TASK2(ksys_write)
wait @j_wait_commit ext4_truncate_failed_write() down_write(mapping.invalidate_lock)
ext4_truncate() ... wait @j_wait_transaction_locked ext_truncate_failed_write() down_write(mapping.invalidate_lock) ext4_should_retry_alloc() ... __jbd2_log_start_commit() wake_up(j_wait_commit)jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() wake_up(j_wait_transaction_locked) up_write(mapping.invalidate_lock)
I hope this would help you understand the report.
I see, thanks for explanation! So the above scenario is impossible because for anyone to block on @j_wait_transaction_locked the transaction must be committing, which is done only by kjournald2 kthread and so that thread cannot be waiting at @j_wait_commit. Essentially blocking on @j_wait_transaction_locked means @j_wait_commit wakeup was already done.
I guess this shows there can be non-trivial dependencies between wait queues which are difficult to track in an automated way and without such tracking we are going to see false positives...
Honza