[Bug 2062568] Re: nfsd gets unresponsive after some hours of operation

Jeff 2062568 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sun Apr 21 22:42:03 UTC 2024


This kind of issue appeared with Ubuntu 23.10 for me on the server
mostly using an HDD for bulk storage with a not exactly powerful CPU
also being occupied with using WireGuard to secure the NFS connection.

Mentioning the performance details because I have a feeling they matter. An also not exactly high performance client connecting over 1 Gb/s only very occasionally caused this problem, however given a 10 Gb/s connection, the issue appeared significantly more commonly. A higher performance setup utilizing a 2.5 Gb/s connection triggered this bug in a couple of days after setup.
The lockup always seem to occur with heavy NFS usage, suspiciously mostly when there's both reading and writing going on, at least I don't recall it happening with reading only, but I'm not confident in stating it didn't happen with a writing only load.

Found this bug report by the client error message, server side differs due to the different version:
```
[300146.046666] INFO: task nfsd:1426 blocked for more than 241 seconds.
[300146.046732]       Not tainted 6.5.0-27-generic #28~22.04.1-Ubuntu
[300146.046770] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[300146.046813] task:nfsd            state:D stack:0     pid:1426  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
[300146.046827] Call Trace:
[300146.046832]  <TASK>
[300146.046839]  __schedule+0x2cb/0x750
[300146.046860]  schedule+0x63/0x110
[300146.046870]  schedule_timeout+0x157/0x170
[300146.046881]  wait_for_completion+0x88/0x150
[300146.046894]  __flush_workqueue+0x140/0x3e0
[300146.046908]  nfsd4_probe_callback_sync+0x1a/0x30 [nfsd]
[300146.047074]  nfsd4_destroy_session+0x193/0x260 [nfsd]
[300146.047219]  nfsd4_proc_compound+0x3b7/0x770 [nfsd]
[300146.047365]  nfsd_dispatch+0xbf/0x1d0 [nfsd]
[300146.047497]  svc_process_common+0x420/0x6e0 [sunrpc]
[300146.047695]  ? __pfx_read_tsc+0x10/0x10
[300146.047706]  ? __pfx_nfsd_dispatch+0x10/0x10 [nfsd]
[300146.047848]  ? __pfx_nfsd+0x10/0x10 [nfsd]
[300146.047977]  svc_process+0x132/0x1b0 [sunrpc]
[300146.048157]  nfsd+0xdc/0x1c0 [nfsd]
[300146.048287]  kthread+0xf2/0x120
[300146.048299]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[300146.048310]  ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70
[300146.048321]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[300146.048331]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
[300146.048341]  </TASK>
```

This seems to be matching, but the previous lockups experienced may have been somewhat different.
I mostly remember the client whining about the server not responding instead of the message presented here, and the server call trace used to have btrfs in it which made me suspect it may be exclusive to that, although the issue was always with NFS, nothing else locked up despite having some other sources of heavy I/O.

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Title:
  nfsd gets unresponsive after some hours of operation

Status in nfs-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I installed the 24.04 Beta on two test machines that were running
  22.04 without issues before. One of them exports two volumes that are
  mounted by the other machine, which primarily uses them as a secondary
  storage for ccache.

  After being up for a couple of hours (happened twice since yesterday
  evening) it seems that nfsd on the machine exporting the volumes hangs
  on something.

  From dmesg on the server (repeated a few times):

  [11183.290548] INFO: task nfsd:1419 blocked for more than 1228 seconds.
  [11183.290558]       Not tainted 6.8.0-22-generic #22-Ubuntu
  [11183.290563] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  [11183.290582] task:nfsd            state:D stack:0     pid:1419  tgid:1419  ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
  [11183.290587] Call Trace:
  [11183.290602]  <TASK>
  [11183.290606]  __schedule+0x27c/0x6b0
  [11183.290612]  schedule+0x33/0x110
  [11183.290615]  schedule_timeout+0x157/0x170
  [11183.290619]  wait_for_completion+0x88/0x150
  [11183.290623]  __flush_workqueue+0x140/0x3e0
  [11183.290629]  nfsd4_probe_callback_sync+0x1a/0x30 [nfsd]
  [11183.290689]  nfsd4_destroy_session+0x186/0x260 [nfsd]
  [11183.290744]  nfsd4_proc_compound+0x3af/0x770 [nfsd]
  [11183.290798]  nfsd_dispatch+0xd4/0x220 [nfsd]
  [11183.290851]  svc_process_common+0x44d/0x710 [sunrpc]
  [11183.290924]  ? __pfx_nfsd_dispatch+0x10/0x10 [nfsd]
  [11183.290976]  svc_process+0x132/0x1b0 [sunrpc]
  [11183.291041]  svc_handle_xprt+0x4d3/0x5d0 [sunrpc]
  [11183.291105]  svc_recv+0x18b/0x2e0 [sunrpc]
  [11183.291168]  ? __pfx_nfsd+0x10/0x10 [nfsd]
  [11183.291220]  nfsd+0x8b/0xe0 [nfsd]
  [11183.291270]  kthread+0xef/0x120
  [11183.291274]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  [11183.291276]  ret_from_fork+0x44/0x70
  [11183.291279]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  [11183.291281]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
  [11183.291286]  </TASK>

  From dmesg on the client (repeated a number of times):
  [ 6596.911785] RPC: Could not send backchannel reply error: -110
  [ 6596.972490] RPC: Could not send backchannel reply error: -110
  [ 6837.281307] RPC: Could not send backchannel reply error: -110

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: nfs-kernel-server 1:2.6.4-3ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-22.22-generic 6.8.1
  Uname: Linux 6.8.0-22-generic x86_64
  .etc.request-key.d.id_resolver.conf: create	id_resolver	*	*	/usr/sbin/nfsidmap -t 600 %k %d
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  Date: Fri Apr 19 14:10:25 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-04-16 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Beta amd64 (20240410.1)
  NFSMounts:

  NFSv4Mounts:

  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: nfs-utils
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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