Bug 193803 - fix zvol rename failing due to out of order locking
Summary: fix zvol rename failing due to out of order locking
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: 10.1-RELEASE
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: freebsd-fs (Nobody)
URL:
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Reported: 2014-09-21 05:38 UTC by kash
Modified: 2024-09-28 00:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Possible fix for zvol hang issues (8.71 KB, text/plain)
2014-10-02 08:12 UTC, Steven Hartland
no flags Details
Possible fix for zvol hang issues (against 10.0-RELEASE) (7.05 KB, patch)
2014-10-02 15:27 UTC, Steven Hartland
no flags Details | Diff
Possible fix for zvol hang issues (against 10.0-RELEASE) (7.27 KB, patch)
2014-10-03 01:06 UTC, Steven Hartland
no flags Details | Diff
deadlocking testcase (534 bytes, text/plain)
2015-10-03 11:10 UTC, krichy
no flags Details

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Description kash 2014-09-21 05:38:34 UTC
I'm experiencing lock-up of the ZFS system when doing a specific command sequence. It is reproducible.

pool structure:

tank/vol/vol1@1
tank/vol/vol2@1
tank/grp/grp1@a, b, c
tank/grp/grp2@a, b, c

Any object under /vol/ and /grp/ are ZVOLs, grp's are clones vol@1.

The commands:

zfs rename tank/vol/vol1@1 tank/vol/vol1@YYYY-MM-DD
zfs rename tank/vol/vol1 tank/trash/YYYY-MM-DD_vol1
zfs rename tank/grp/grp1 tank/vol/vol1
zfs promote tank/vol/vol1
*hangs*

next command:
zfs snapshot tank/vol/vol@1



I can't use 'zfs list' during this time, it is hung:

82867  -  I        0:00.00 sh -c zfs ...
82870  -  I        0:00.01 sudo zfs promote tank/iscsi/volumes/dfh
82871  -  D        0:00.01 zfs promote tank/iscsi/volumes/dfh
82919  -  I        0:00.01 sudo zfs get -H -o value available
82920  -  D        0:00.00 zfs get -H -o value available
Comment 1 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-09-21 17:58:48 UTC
Hi,

When the system is in a hung state, can you please show the output of

ps -auxwww -O wchan |grep zfs

And for each process listed, run "procstat -kk [pid]"

It would also be interesting to know if there is any disk activity while in the hung state.  "iostat -t da -c 5 5" should do it.

Thanks,

Gavin
Comment 2 kash 2014-09-28 18:25:12 UTC
It appears this is not dependent on 'promote' being used, I just hit the bug again when running 10 rename commands very closely together. 

Thing is, it did not crash the first three times I ran the commands, but it did crash on the fourth. This is a trend I have observed. After a reboot, the commands will run, but if you do it too many times, it will stop working.

(In reply to Gavin Atkinson from comment #1)
> Hi,
> 
> When the system is in a hung state, can you please show the output of
> 
> ps -auxwww -O wchan |grep zfs
> 
> And for each process listed, run "procstat -kk [pid]"
> 
> It would also be interesting to know if there is any disk activity while in
> the hung state.  "iostat -t da -c 5 5" should do it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gavin
Comment 3 kash 2014-09-28 18:25:51 UTC
ps auxwww -O wchan:

root      2   0.0  0.0      0  1424  -  DL   Mon09am    38:58.35
[zfskern]            2 zvol:io   -  DL      38:58.35 [zfskern]
root   5452   0.0  0.0  48152  2604  -  I     2:03pm     0:00.01 sudo
zfs rename   5452 select    -  I        0:00.01 sudo zfs rename
tank/[redacted]@b7 tank/[redacted]@b6
root   5467   0.0  0.0  40048  2448  -  D     2:03pm     0:00.01 zfs
rename tank/  5467 tx->tx_s  -  D        0:00.01 zfs rename
tank/[redacted]@b7 tank/[redacted]@b6
root   5474   0.0  0.0  18724  2108  0  S+    2:05pm     0:00.00 grep
zfs          5474 piperd    0  S+       0:00.00 grep zfs

# for i in 5452 5467 ; do procstat -kk $i ; done   
  PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           KSTACK                      
 5452 101591 sudo             -                mi_switch+0xde
sleepq_catch_signals+0xb2 sleepq_wait_sig+0xf _cv_wait_sig+0x16a
seltdwait+0x96 sys_poll+0x3dc amd64_syscall+0x357 Xfast_syscall+0xfb
  PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           KSTACK                      
 5467 101597 zfs              -                mi_switch+0xde
sleepq_wait+0x3a _cv_wait+0x16d txg_wait_synced+0x85 dsl_sync_task+0x1e2
dsl_dataset_rename_snapshot+0x34 zfs_ioc_rename+0x10e zfsdev_ioctl+0x478
devfs_ioctl_f+0x11f kern_ioctl+0x22e sys_ioctl+0x11f amd64_syscall+0x357
Xfast_syscall+0xfb


Looks like no disk IO:

# iostat -t da -c 5 5
       tty            ada0             ada1             cpu
 tin  tout  KB/t tps  MB/s   KB/t tps  MB/s  us ni sy in id
   0    58 18.25  71  1.27  18.50  70  1.27   0  0  2  0 98
   0    37  4.00   0  0.00   4.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  0 100
   0    12  4.00   0  0.00   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  0 100
   0    12  0.00   0  0.00   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  0 100
   0    12  0.00   0  0.00   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  0 100
   0    12  0.00   0  0.00   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  0 100
   0    12  0.00   0  0.00   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  0 100
   0    12  0.00   0  0.00   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  0 100
Comment 4 kash 2014-10-01 18:58:52 UTC
I've been hitting this bug repeatedly on production networks, it would be best to get some feedback or it starts to look like FreeBSD ZFS is a dead project.
Comment 5 kash 2014-10-01 21:33:39 UTC
This bug along with the "zvol entries not showing up in /dev/ until after reboot" one, and the lack of response shows the FreeBSD developers have different priorities than the users, BHyVE gets who knows how much unnecessary attention while critical ZFS bugs go unfixed? The proposed patch for #178999 in the old tracker works but doesn't resolve all the issues, even admitted by the author smh@freebsd, but yet, no additional work has gone in that ticket. It's been "merged into head" but the new servers I've built still have the issue.

ZFS on Linux does not have the issues that FreeBSD ZFS has, so unfortunately my company and our product (plus its thousands of users) will be converting to a more reliable platform until some progress can be made here.
Comment 6 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 08:12:31 UTC
Created attachment 147905 [details]
Possible fix for zvol hang issues

Try this patch and lmk if it fixes the issues for you
Comment 7 kash 2014-10-02 14:25:31 UTC
Comment on attachment 147905 [details]
Possible fix for zvol hang issues

This does not compile against 10-RELEASE-pX
Comment 8 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 14:58:02 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #7)
> Comment on attachment 147905 [details]
> Possible fix for zvol hang issues
> 
> This does not compile against 10-RELEASE-pX

Its against stable/10 not release
Comment 9 kash 2014-10-02 15:00:30 UTC
Can I get a patch for my RELEASE, because that's the version I filed this bug against, I don't run STABLE and can't jump to a test version just for one bug.. thanks
Comment 10 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 15:27:54 UTC
Created attachment 147915 [details]
Possible fix for zvol hang issues (against 10.0-RELEASE)
Comment 11 kash 2014-10-02 16:29:34 UTC
--- dnode_sync.o ---
ctfconvert -L VERSION -g dnode_sync.o
--- dnode.o ---
ctfconvert -L VERSION -g dnode.o
--- dsl_dataset.o ---
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c:3016:12: error: use of undeclared identifier 'newname'
        kmem_free(newname, MAXPATHLEN);
                  ^
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys/kmem.h:82:46: note: expanded from macro 'kmem_free'
#define kmem_free(buf, size)            zfs_kmem_free((buf), (size))
                                                       ^
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c:3017:12: error: use of undeclared identifier 'oldname'
        kmem_free(oldname, MAXPATHLEN);
                  ^
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys/kmem.h:82:46: note: expanded from macro 'kmem_free'
#define kmem_free(buf, size)            zfs_kmem_free((buf), (size))
                                                       ^
2 errors generated.
*** [dsl_dataset.o] Error code 1
Comment 12 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 16:50:46 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #11)
> --- dnode_sync.o ---
> ctfconvert -L VERSION -g dnode_sync.o
> --- dnode.o ---
> ctfconvert -L VERSION -g dnode.o
> --- dsl_dataset.o ---
> /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/
> dsl_dataset.c:3016:12: error: use of undeclared identifier 'newname'
>         kmem_free(newname, MAXPATHLEN);
...

Line 3016 in 10.0-RELEASE is in dsl_dataset_space_wouldfree which has no changes in this patch, are you sure it applied cleanly?

kmem_free(newname, MAXPATHLEN) should be on the following two lines only:
"sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c" line 1696 of 3073 --55%-- col 2-9
"sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c" line 2229 of 3073 --72%-- col 2-9
Comment 13 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 16:54:53 UTC
In addition the functions these calls are in are: dsl_dataset_promote_sync and dsl_dataset_rename_snapshot_sync_impl with the new one being added to:
dsl_dataset_promote_sync
Comment 14 kash 2014-10-02 16:59:31 UTC
Ah, I'm using RELEASE-p7 it seems.
Comment 15 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 17:42:19 UTC
-pX is just security patches, that won't effect the main code base.
Comment 16 kash 2014-10-02 17:53:06 UTC
The patch does not apply cleanly to a new SVN pull of releng/10.0:

[/usr/src]-[root@fbsd-master]-[0]-[1704]
[:)] # cat sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c.rej                                                           
@@ -1684,8 +1682,7 @@
        VERIFY0(zap_add(dp->dp_meta_objset, hds->ds_phys->ds_snapnames_zapobj,
            ds->ds_snapname, 8, 1, &ds->ds_object, tx));
 
-#ifdef __FreeBSD__
-#ifdef _KERNEL
+#if defined(__FreeBSD__) && defined (_KERNEL)
        oldname = kmem_alloc(MAXPATHLEN, KM_SLEEP);
        newname = kmem_alloc(MAXPATHLEN, KM_SLEEP);
        snprintf(oldname, MAXPATHLEN, "%s@%s", ddrsa->ddrsa_fsname,
@@ -2144,6 +2143,14 @@
                    dd->dd_phys->dd_clones, origin_head->ds_object, tx));
        }
 
+#if defined(__FreeBSD__) && defined(_KERNEL)
+       /* Take the spa_namespace_lock so zvol renames don't livelock */
+       mutex_enter(&spa_namespace_lock);
+
+       oldname = kmem_alloc(MAXPATHLEN, KM_SLEEP);
+       newname = kmem_alloc(MAXPATHLEN, KM_SLEEP);
+#endif
+
        /* move snapshots to this dir */
        for (snap = list_head(&ddpa->shared_snaps); snap;
            snap = list_next(&ddpa->shared_snaps, snap)) {
[/usr/src]-[root@fbsd-master]-[0]-[1705]
[:)] # cat sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zvol.c.rej       
@@ -2393,9 +2381,10 @@
        if (dmu_objset_type(os) == DMU_OST_ZVOL) {
                dsl_dataset_long_hold(os->os_dsl_dataset, FTAG);
                dsl_pool_rele(dmu_objset_pool(os), FTAG);
-               if ((error = zvol_create_minor(name)) == 0)
+               error = zvol_create_minor(name);
+               if (error == 0 || error == EEXIST) {
                        error = zvol_create_snapshots(os, name);
-               else {
+               } else {
                        printf("ZFS WARNING: Unable to create ZVOL %s (error=%d).\n",
                            name, error);
                }
@@ -2479,12 +2468,16 @@
        size_t oldnamelen, newnamelen;
        zvol_state_t *zv;
        char *namebuf;
+       boolean_t locked = B_FALSE;
 
        oldnamelen = strlen(oldname);
        newnamelen = strlen(newname);
 
        DROP_GIANT();
-       mutex_enter(&spa_namespace_lock);
+       if (!MUTEX_HELD(&spa_namespace_lock)) {
+               mutex_enter(&spa_namespace_lock);
+               locked = B_TRUE;
+       }
        g_topology_lock();
 
        LIST_FOREACH(gp, &zfs_zvol_class.geom, geom) {
@@ -2507,6 +2500,7 @@
        }
 
        g_topology_unlock();
-       mutex_exit(&spa_namespace_lock);
+       if (locked)
+               mutex_exit(&spa_namespace_lock);
        PICKUP_GIANT();
 }
Comment 17 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 18:53:26 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #16)
> The patch does not apply cleanly to a new SVN pull of releng/10.0:

Just retested here against a clean checkout and it does apply for me without issue.

Are you sure your checkout is clean?

smh> svn info
Path: .
Working Copy Root Path: freebsd/base/releng/10.0
URL: svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.0
Relative URL: ^/releng/10.0
Repository Root: svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base
Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
Revision: 272442
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: delphij
Last Changed Rev: 271669
Last Changed Date: 2014-09-16 09:50:19 +0000 (Tue, 16 Sep 2014)
smh> svn status
smh> 
root@node-dev:src-svn> patch -C -E -N -p0 -F1 -t < /usr/src/patches/zfs-zvol-fixes.patch
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|Various fixes for zvol devices not being correctly maintained when operations
|which effect them occur.
|--- sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c.orig  2014-03-26 17:52:33.000000000 +0000
|+++ sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c       2014-09-29 18:52:24.903520480 +0000
--------------------------
Patching file sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1655.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1684.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 1696.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 2072.
Hunk #5 succeeded at 2140.
Hunk #6 succeeded at 2180.
Hunk #7 succeeded at 2223.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zvol.h.orig     2014-03-26 17:52:33.000000000 +0000
|+++ sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zvol.h  2014-09-29 18:52:24.903520480 +0000
--------------------------
Patching file sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/sys/zvol.h using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 41.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c.orig    2014-03-26 17:52:33.000000000 +0000
|+++ sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c 2014-09-29 18:52:24.908521871 +0000
--------------------------
Patching file sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3517.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 3547.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 3643.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zvol.c.orig 2014-09-29 18:52:05.348521778 +0000
|+++ sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zvol.c      2014-09-29 18:52:24.909520935 +0000
--------------------------
Patching file sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zvol.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 630.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 757.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 782.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 2369 (offset -12 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 2467 (offset -1 lines).
No such line 2505 in input file, ignoring
Hunk #6 succeeded at 2488 (offset -12 lines).
done
Comment 18 kash 2014-10-02 22:47:49 UTC
I've built it but now I don't have /dev/zvol nodes showing up for clones.
Comment 19 kash 2014-10-02 22:56:11 UTC
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c:1126:11: warning: comparison of constant -1 with expression of type 'zfs_prop_t' is always false [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
        if (prop == ZPROP_INVAL) {
            ~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c:2378:11: warning: comparison of constant -1 with expression of type 'zfs_prop_t' is always false [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
        if (prop == ZPROP_INVAL) {
            ~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c:2512:24: warning: comparison of constant -1 with expression of type 'zfs_prop_t' is always false [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
                if (err == 0 && prop == ZPROP_INVAL) {
                                ~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c:2774:12: warning: comparison of constant -1 with expression of type 'zfs_prop_t' is always false [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
                if (prop == ZPROP_INVAL) {
                    ~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c:2813:12: warning: comparison of constant -1 with expression of type 'zfs_prop_t' is always true [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
                if (prop != ZPROP_INVAL && !zfs_prop_inheritable(prop))
                    ~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c:3661:11: warning: comparison of constant -1 with expression of type 'zfs_prop_t' is always false [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
        if (prop == ZPROP_INVAL) {
Comment 20 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-02 23:04:33 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #19)
> /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/
> zfs_ioctl.c:1126:11: warning: comparison of constant -1 with expression of
> type 'zfs_prop_t' is always false
> [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
>         if (prop == ZPROP_INVAL) {
>             ~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~

Nothing to do with this, it always does that.
Comment 21 kash 2014-10-03 00:32:05 UTC
Ok, wasn't sure if that was the intended behaviour - was zvol dev entry creation purposefully removed?
Comment 22 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-03 00:42:24 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #18)
> I've built it but now I don't have /dev/zvol nodes showing up for clones.

That's an issue already fixed in stable, its never worked in 10.0-RELEASE
Comment 23 kash 2014-10-03 00:43:40 UTC
I've been using 10.0-RELEASE for a year with the original patch from this thread. It does work, but not with the new locking patch you created.
Comment 24 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-03 01:06:01 UTC
Created attachment 147924 [details]
Possible fix for zvol hang issues (against 10.0-RELEASE)

This also includes the fix from stable for clones not creating their corrisponding zvols.
Comment 25 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-03 01:07:13 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #23)
> I've been using 10.0-RELEASE for a year with the original patch from this
> thread. It does work, but not with the new locking patch you created.

There's no other patches on this PR, so I'm not sure what your refering to but I've updated the patch for 10.0-RELEASE adding the fix from stable for clones creating zvols.

I'd appreciate feedback on if the patch fixes your deadlock issue.
Comment 26 kash 2014-10-03 01:39:43 UTC
(In reply to Steven Hartland from comment #25)
> (In reply to kash from comment #23)
> > I've been using 10.0-RELEASE for a year with the original patch from this
> > thread. It does work, but not with the new locking patch you created.
> 
> There's no other patches on this PR, so I'm not sure what your refering to
> but I've updated the patch for 10.0-RELEASE adding the fix from stable for
> clones creating zvols.
> 
> I'd appreciate feedback on if the patch fixes your deadlock issue.

I meant from the other 'zvol not appearing' ticket.
Comment 27 kash 2014-10-03 02:03:33 UTC
Thanks for your patience, that's a good enough fix for now, hopefully soon the locking code can be reworked within OpenZFS to have a generic approach across Linux, Illumos and FreeBSD.
Comment 28 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-03 08:20:27 UTC
So just to confirm, this does fix your deadlock issue?

For reference the current locking for zvol changes is actually quite specific to FreeBSD so not really an upstream issue.
Comment 29 kash 2014-10-03 13:25:02 UTC
yes so far it resolves rename-related deadlocks.
Comment 30 kash 2014-10-03 13:28:25 UTC
(In reply to Steven Hartland from comment #28)
> So just to confirm, this does fix your deadlock issue?
> 
> For reference the current locking for zvol changes is actually quite
> specific to FreeBSD so not really an upstream issue.

Richard Yao was saying there's potential for converging the pathways still, ZoL and Illumos have different ways of structuring locks, and thought the way this was handled is a bit too similar to the Big Kernel Lock, but I don't know much about this, I'm a less articulate coder.
Comment 31 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-03 14:05:40 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #30)
> (In reply to Steven Hartland from comment #28)
> > So just to confirm, this does fix your deadlock issue?
> > 
> > For reference the current locking for zvol changes is actually quite
> > specific to FreeBSD so not really an upstream issue.
> 
> Richard Yao was saying there's potential for converging the pathways still,
> ZoL and Illumos have different ways of structuring locks, and thought the
> way this was handled is a bit too similar to the Big Kernel Lock, but I
> don't know much about this, I'm a less articulate coder.

I believe this is around FS locking. The reason for the divergence in the code bases around ZVOLs is due to the fact that upstream creates ZVOL dev entries on the demand when a /dev/ lookup takes place. This is something FreeBSD currently can't do hence the various static create/destroy/rename in various places so they are always available.
Comment 32 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-10-03 14:49:58 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: smh
Date: Fri Oct  3 14:49:50 UTC 2014
New revision: 272474
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/272474

Log:
  Fix various issues with zvols

  When performing snapshot renames we could deadlock due to the locking
  in zvol_rename_minors. In order to avoid this use the same workaround
  as zvol_open in zvol_rename_minors.

  Add missing zvol_rename_minors to dsl_dataset_promote_sync.

  Protect against invalid index into zv_name in zvol_remove_minors.

  Replace zvol_remove_minor calls with zvol_remove_minors to ensure
  any potential children are also renamed.

  Don't fail zvol_create_minors if zvol_create_minor returns EEXIST.

  Restore the valid pool check in zfs_ioc_destroy_snaps to ensure we
  don't call zvol_remove_minors when zfs_unmount_snap fails.

  PR:		193803
  MFC after:	1 week
  Sponsored by:	Multiplay

Changes:
  head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_dataset.c
  head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c
  head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zvol.c
Comment 33 kash 2015-02-05 20:59:34 UTC
This is still an issue - whatever commits were merged did not fully address the situation
Comment 34 Steven Hartland freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-03-15 11:29:16 UTC
(In reply to kash from comment #33)
Please confirm exactly what revision your running and report an updated stack.

The fix was included in r277483 for stable/10
Comment 35 Glen Barber freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-07-08 18:32:19 UTC
To originators/assignees of this PR:

A commit to the tree references this PR, however the PR is still in a non-closed state.

Please review this PR and close as appropriate, or if closing the PR requires a merge to stable/10, please let re@ know as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Glen
Comment 36 krichy 2015-10-03 11:10:54 UTC
Created attachment 161674 [details]
deadlocking testcase
Comment 37 krichy 2015-10-03 11:11:46 UTC
Unfortunately deadlock can still occur running the attached deadlocking testcase script.
Comment 38 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2024-09-28 00:21:50 UTC
^Triage: clear the now obsolete 'patch' keyword.

To submitter: is this aging PR still relevant?