Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:00:25 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Matthew Fleming <matthew.fleming@isilon.com> Cc: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: panic: knlist not locked, but should be Message-ID: <20090609170025.GE75569@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <06D5F9F6F655AD4C92E28B662F7F853E02CC8A29@seaxch09.desktop.isilon.com> References: <20090609163005.GD75569@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <06D5F9F6F655AD4C92E28B662F7F853E02CC8A29@seaxch09.desktop.isilon.com>
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--47eKBCiAZYFK5l32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:45:49AM -0700, Matthew Fleming wrote: >=20 > > This appears to be an interaction with the recent changes to use=20 > > shared vnode locks for writes on ZFS. Hmm, I think it may be ok to=20 > > use a shared vnode lock for kevents on vnodes though. The vnode=20 > > interlock should be sufficient locking for what little work the kevent >=20 > > filters do. As a quick hack for now the MNT_SHARED_WRITES() stuff=20 > > could avoid using shared locks 'if (!VN_KNLIST_EMPTY(vp))', but I=20 > > think the longer term fix is to not use the vnode locks for vnode > kevents, but use the interlock instead. >=20 > I tried (briefly) using the interlock since Isilon's vnode lock is > cluster wide (in our 6.1 based code we got away with using Giant). This > got me a LOR report on the interlock: >=20 > /* > * kqueue/VFS interaction > */ > { "kqueue", &lock_class_mtx_sleep }, > { "struct mount mtx", &lock_class_mtx_sleep }, > { "vnode interlock", &lock_class_mtx_sleep }, > { NULL, NULL }, >=20 > since knote() will take first the list->kl_lock and then the kqueue > lock. I didn't spend any time on it, and switched to using the vnode > v_lock for my purposes. But someone added that lock ordering (r166421) > for a reason. That was me, I actually looked for the reversed order that was reported several times on the list in 6.1-6.2 timeframe. Unfortunately, nothing was found. I noted in the separate letter that read filter for vnodes needs shared vnode lock anyway. --47eKBCiAZYFK5l32 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoulSkACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4giiwCgueRccpaL8GJMjZAC67hn+XRa flMAoNTqisiL7fX7KYNkyB5xysB0hBFR =HSdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --47eKBCiAZYFK5l32--
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