Hi, Mathieu, We are running a CentOS 8.2 os on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4, and using the workqueue interfaces in src/workqueue.h in userspace-rcu-latest-0.12.tar.bz2. Recently, we found the workqueue thread rushes cpu into 99% usage. After some debuging, we found that the futex in struct urcu_workqueue got into very big negative value, e.g, -12484; while the qlen, cbs_tail, and cbs_head suggest that the workqueue is empty. We add a watchpoint of workqueue->futex in workqueue_thread(), and got this log when workqueue->futex first get into -2: ... Old value = -1 New value = 0 0x00007ffff37c1d6d in futex_wake_up (futex=0x55555f74aa40) at workqueue.c:160 160 in workqueue.c #0 0x00007ffff37c1d6d in futex_wake_up (futex=0x55555f74aa40) at workqueue.c:160 #1 0x00007ffff37c2737 in wake_worker_thread (workqueue=0x55555f74aa00) at workqueue.c:324 #2 0x00007ffff37c29fb in urcu_workqueue_queue_work (workqueue=0x55555f74aa00, work=0x555566e05e00, func=0x7ffff7523c90 <write_dirty_finish>) at workqueue.c:3 67 #3 0x00007ffff752c520 in aio_complete_cb (ctx=<optimized out>, iocb=<optimized out>, res=<optimized out>, res2=<optimized out>) at bio/aio_bio_adapter.c:152 #4 0x00007ffff752c696 in poll_io_complete (arg=0x555562e4f4a0) at bio/aio_bio_adapter.c:289 #5 0x00007ffff72e6ea5 in start_thread () from /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 #6 0x00007ffff415d96d in clone () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 [Switching to Thread 0x7fffde3f3700 (LWP 821768)] Hardware watchpoint 4: -location workqueue->futex
Old value = 0 New value = -1 0x00007ffff37c2473 in __uatomic_dec (len=4, addr=0x55555f74aa40) at ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:490 490 ../include/urcu/uatomic.h: No such file or directory. #0 0x00007ffff37c2473 in __uatomic_dec (len=4, addr=0x55555f74aa40) at ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:490 #1 workqueue_thread (arg=0x55555f74aa00) at workqueue.c:250 #2 0x00007ffff72e6ea5 in start_thread () from /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x00007ffff415d96d in clone () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 Hardware watchpoint 4: -location workqueue->futex Old value = -1 New value = -2 0x00007ffff37c2473 in __uatomic_dec (len=4, addr=0x55555f74aa40) at ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:490 490 in ../include/urcu/uatomic.h #0 0x00007ffff37c2473 in __uatomic_dec (len=4, addr=0x55555f74aa40) at ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:490 #1 workqueue_thread (arg=0x55555f74aa00) at workqueue.c:250 #2 0x00007ffff72e6ea5 in start_thread () from /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x00007ffff415d96d in clone () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 Hardware watchpoint 4: -location workqueue->futex Old value = -2 New value = -3 0x00007ffff37c2473 in __uatomic_dec (len=4, addr=0x55555f74aa40) at ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:490 490 in ../include/urcu/uatomic.h #0 0x00007ffff37c2473 in __uatomic_dec (len=4, addr=0x55555f74aa40) at ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:490 #1 workqueue_thread (arg=0x55555f74aa00) at workqueue.c:250 #2 0x00007ffff72e6ea5 in start_thread () from /usr/lib64/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x00007ffff415d96d in clone () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 Hardware watchpoint 4: -location workqueue->futex ... After this, things went into wild, workqueue->futex got into bigger negative value, and workqueue thread eat up the cpu it is using. This ends only when workqueue->futex down flew into 0. Do you have any idea why this is happening, and how to fix it? B.R Minlan Wang _______________________________________________ lttng-dev mailing list lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org https://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev