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Bug 1527783 - jbd2_log_wait_commit hangs
Summary: jbd2_log_wait_commit hangs
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eddie Kovsky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: x86Tracker
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Reported: 2017-12-20 06:02 UTC by lav
Modified: 2018-05-29 12:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 12:16:50 UTC
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Linux Kernel 198187 0 None None None 2019-06-20 08:00:10 UTC

Description lav 2017-12-20 06:02:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
sometimes, a process stucks in jbd2_log_wait_commit wait state. After that, any "sync" and probably fsync calls stuck too. The symptom is LA growing to insane values. On one server the most common stuck process is logrotate in a lxc container. I could not log in to two other affected servers. Another few servers at my disposal do not exhibit this behaviour. There is no disk related messages in the log or dmesg. Nothing suspicious or unusual at all in the log. Graceful reboot hangs too. One affected server is i686 two others are x86_64.

The problem started with 4.13.8 and did not occur in 4.12.8.

Here is the dnf history info after which the problem started to occur:
    Erase    kernel-4.12.8-200.fc25.i686              @updates/25
    Install  kernel-4.13.8-100.fc25.i686              @updates/25

I have upgraded to up-to-date fedora 26, but it did not help.
Kernel downgrade fixes the problem. Currently I'm at kernel-4.11.8-300.fc26.i686.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
>=4.13.8 up to 4.13.16-202.fc26 (I've not tried later kernels)

How reproducible:
Eventually, probably when doing logrotate at night.


Actual results:
There are many stuck processes in D state with jbd2_log_wait_commit in wchan. LA is very high.

Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Warren Postma 2018-02-23 19:14:53 UTC 
I am having a virtually identical problem but it's not in Fedora. I believe therefore it is an upstream kernel bug and not a Fedora kernel modification.

 I wanted to add some hardware detail here in case it helps narrow down the cause/origin of the problem, and so I would like to ask the original poster and any other people who state "me too" to add your own hardware details.  What type of device (Sata, SAS, raid) are you having this problem with? 

What I wonder is if it's a linux device driver issue causing this, or an ext4 filesystem issue.  If it's reproducible on any drive hardware, it may be a filesystem (ext4 journaling) issue.  Turning off journaling could be a workaround.

I have an identical problem in Linux 4.9.0, and so I wonder if it's an ext4 bug in my 4.9.x kernel and also a regression in 4.13 kernels.

Output from dmesg -T will probably include hangs. 

my hardware is a dell precision workstation T7610 with integrated Intel SAS RAID0/RAID1/RAID10 controller, and it's the raid10 volume that has this problem.   LSPCI sees it as LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05).

I am turning off Journaling on my ext4 volume to see if it's an ext4 journaling issue, or if it's a physical problem with my drive/array or a problem with filesystems.
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