dmu_tx_wait() hang likely due to cv_signal() in dsl_pool_dirty_delta()
Even though the bug's writeup (Github issue #9136) is very detailed,
we still don't know exactly how we got to that state, thus I wasn't
able to reproduce the bug. That said, we can make an educated guess
combining the information on filled issue with the code.
From the fact that `dp_dirty_total` was 0 (which is less than
`zfs_dirty_data_max`) we know that there was one thread that set it to
0 and then signaled one of the waiters of `dp_spaceavail_cv` [see
`dsl_pool_dirty_delta()` which is also the only place that
`dp_dirty_total` is changed]. Thus, the only logical explaination
then for the bug being hit is that the waiter that just got awaken
didn't go through `dsl_pool_dirty_data()`. Given that this function
is only called by `dsl_pool_dirty_space()` or `dsl_pool_undirty_space()`
I can only think of two possible ways of the above scenario happening:
[1] The waiter didn't call into any of the two functions - which I
find highly unlikely (i.e. why wait on `dp_spaceavail_cv` to begin
with?).
[2] The waiter did call in one of the above function but it passed 0 as
the space/delta to be dirtied (or undirtied) and then the callee
returned immediately (e.g both `dsl_pool_dirty_space()` and
`dsl_pool_undirty_space()` return immediately when space is 0).
In any case and no matter how we got there, the easy fix would be to
just broadcast to all waiters whenever `dp_dirty_total` hits 0. That
said and given that we've never hit this before, it would make sense
to think more on why the above situation occured.
Attempting to mimic what Prakash was doing in the issue filed, I
created a dataset with `sync=always` and started doing contiguous
writes in a file within that dataset. I observed with DTrace that even
though we update the pool's dirty data accounting when we would dirty
stuff, the accounting wouldn't be decremented incrementally as we were
done with the ZIOs of those writes (the reason being that
`dbuf_write_physdone()` isn't be called as we go through the override
code paths, and thus `dsl_pool_undirty_space()` is never called). As a
result we'd have to wait until we get to `dsl_pool_sync()` where we
zero out all dirty data accounting for the pool and the current TXG's
metadata.
In addition, as Matt noted and I later verified, the same issue would
arise when using dedup.
In both cases (sync & dedup) we shouldn't have to wait until
`dsl_pool_sync()` zeros out the accounting data. According to the
comment in that part of the code, the reasons why we do the zeroing,
have nothing to do with what we observe:
````
/*
* We have written all of the accounted dirty data, so our
* dp_space_towrite should now be zero. However, some seldom-used
* code paths do not adhere to this (e.g. dbuf_undirty(), also
* rounding error in dbuf_write_physdone).
* Shore up the accounting of any dirtied space now.
*/
dsl_pool_undirty_space(dp, dp->dp_dirty_pertxg[txg & TXG_MASK], txg);
````
Ideally what we want to do is to undirty in the accounting exactly what
we dirty (I use the word ideally as we can still have rounding errors).
This would make the behavior of the system more clear and predictable.
Another interesting issue that I observed with DTrace was that we
wouldn't update any of the pool's dirty data accounting whenever we
would dirty and/or undirty MOS data. In addition, every time we would
change the size of a dbuf through `dbuf_new_size()` we wouldn't update
the accounted space dirtied in the appropriate dirty record, so when
ZIOs are done we would undirty less that we dirtied from the pool's
accounting point of view.
For the first two issues observed (sync & dedup) this patch ensures
that we still update the pool's accounting when we undirty data,
regardless of the write being physical or not.
For changes in the MOS, we first ensure to zero out the pool's dirty
data accounting in `dsl_pool_sync()` after we synced the MOS. Then we
can go ahead and enable the update of the pool's dirty data accounting
wheneve we change MOS data.
Another fix is that we now update the accounting explicitly for
counting errors in `dbuf_write_done()`.
Finally, `dbuf_new_size()` updates the accounted space of the
appropriate dirty record correctly now.
The problem is that we still don't know how the bug came up in the
issue filled. That said the issues fixed seem to be very relevant, so
instead of going with the broadcasting solution right away,
I decided to leave this patch as is.
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