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We've observed NFS clients with sync tasks sleeping in __rpc_execute waiting on RPC_TASK_QUEUED that have not responded to a wake-up from rpc_make_runnable(). I suspect this problem usually goes unnoticed, because on a busy client the task will eventually be re-awoken by another task completion or xprt event. However, if the state manager is draining the slot table, a sync task missing a wake-up can result in a hung client. We've been able to prove that the waker in rpc_make_runnable() successfully calls wake_up_bit() (ie- there's no race to tk_runstate), but the wake_up_bit() call fails to wake the waiter. I suspect the waker is missing the load of the bit's wait_queue_head, so waitqueue_active() is false. There are some very helpful comments about this problem above wake_up_bit(), prepare_to_wait(), and waitqueue_active(). Fix this by inserting smp_mb__after_atomic() before the wake_up_bit(), which pairs with prepare_to_wait() calling set_current_state(). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.