On Jul 21, 2022, at 10:50 AM, Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:

FYI, modern kernels (anything newer than 5.10 LTS, up to and excluding
bleeding-edge mainline kernels) are looping forever in a livelock or
deadlock when running generic/476 on NFS, both in a loopback and
external export configuration.  This *may* be an ENOSPC related issue.

See the referenced discussion on fstests@vger.kernel.org for more
details.

	 			     	      - Ted


From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] generic/476: requires 27GB scratch size
Date: July 21, 2022 at 10:03:45 AM EDT
To: Boyang Xue <redacted>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>, fstests@vger.kernel.org


Following up, using NFS loopback with a 5GB scratch device on a Google
Compute Engine VM, generic/476 passes using a 4.14 LTS, 4.19 LTS, and
5.4 LTS kernel.  So this looks like it's a regression which is in 5.10
LTS and newer kernels, and so instead of patching it out of the test,
I think the right thing to do is to add it to a kernel
version-specific exclude file and then filing a bug with the NFS
folks.

KERNEL:    kernel 4.14.284-xfstests #8 SMP Tue Jul 5 08:21:37 EDT 2022 x86_64
CMDLINE:   -c nfs/default generic/476
CPUS:      2
MEM:       7680

nfs/loopback: 1 tests, 597 seconds
 generic/476  Pass     595s
Totals: 1 tests, 0 skipped, 0 failures, 0 errors, 595s

---
KERNEL:    kernel 4.19.248-xfstests #4 SMP Sat Jun 25 10:43:45 EDT 2022 x86_64
CMDLINE:   -c nfs/default generic/476
CPUS:      2
MEM:       7680

nfs/loopback: 1 tests, 407 seconds
 generic/476  Pass     407s
Totals: 1 tests, 0 skipped, 0 failures, 0 errors, 407s

----
KERNEL:    kernel 5.4.199-xfstests #21 SMP Sun Jul 3 12:15:15 EDT 2022 x86_64
CMDLINE:   -c nfs/default generic/476
CPUS:      2
MEM:       7680

nfs/loopback: 1 tests, 404 seconds
 generic/476  Pass     404s
Totals: 1 tests, 0 skipped, 0 failures, 0 errors, 404s


See below for what I'm checking into xfstests-bld for
{kvm,gce}-xfstests.  I don't believe we should be changing xfstests's
generic/476, since it *does* pass with a smaller scratch device on
older kernels, and presumably, RHEL customers would be cranky if this
issue resulted in their production systems to lock up, and so it
should be considered a kernel bug as opposed to a test bug.

						- Ted


commit 4a33b6721d5db9c07f295a10a8ad65d2a0021406
Author: Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref]
Date:   Thu Jul 21 09:54:50 2022 -0400

   test-appliance: add an nfs test exclusions for kernels newer than 5.4

   This is apparently an NFS bug which is visible in 5.10 LTS and newer
   kernels, and likely appeared sometime after 5.4.  Since it causes the
   test VM to spin forever (or at least for days), let's exclude it for
   now.

   Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHLe9YaAVyBmmM8T27dudvoeAxbJ_JMQmkz7tdM1ZLnpeQW4UQ@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
   Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref]

diff --git a/test-appliance/files/root/fs/nfs/exclude b/test-appliance/files/root/fs/nfs/exclude
index 184750fb..ef4b19bc 100644
--- a/test-appliance/files/root/fs/nfs/exclude
+++ b/test-appliance/files/root/fs/nfs/exclude

@@ -10,3 +10,14 @@ generic/477

// failing in the expected output of the linux-nfs Wiki page.  So we'll
// suppress this failure for now.
generic/294
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(5,4,0)
+// There appears to be a regression that shows up sometime after 5.4.
+// LTS kernels for 4.14, 4.19, and 5.4 will terminate successfully,
+// but newer kernels will spin forever in some kind of deadlock or livelock
+// This apparently does not happen if the scratch device is > 27GB, so it
+// may be some kind of ENOSPC-related bug.
+// For more information see the e-mail thread starting at:
+// https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHLe9YaAVyBmmM8T27dudvoeAxbJ_JMQmkz7tdM1ZLnpeQW4UQ@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
+generic/476
+#endif