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Title:
  systemd/logind parsing problem: HTX exercisers stopped on error: rc
  11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in systemd source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [SRU justification]
  Before systemd 232, UserTasksMax=infinity is not respected in logind.conf, despite the documentation referring to systemd.resource-control(5) for the definition of this field. This limits the use of Ubuntu 16.04 and later in contexts where a user session should be permitted to allocate large numbers of processes.

  [Test case]
  1. Set UserTasksMax=infinity in /etc/systemd/logind.conf.
  2. Create a new login session.
  3. Check the ulimit for user processes with 'ulimit -u'.
  4. Verify that the limit has a numeric value.
  5. Upgrade to systemd from -proposed.
  6. Create a new login session.
  7. Check the ulimit for user processes with 'ulimit -u'.
  8. Verify that the limit is now set to 'unlimited'.

  [Regression potential]
  This is an upstream patch which is part of 232 and later without issues and clearly addresses the bug in question.  While the upstream commit includes code changes that are not strictly required in order to fix this bug, these are mostly cosmetic and should not carry significant additional risk.

  == Comment: #1 - Application Cdeadmin <cdeadmin at us.ibm.com> -
  2016-12-19 04:15:10 ==

  Configuration: IBM 8001-22C (S822LC), LSI SAS adapters, SMC 4U90 disk
  drawers, HDD (180) 7.3TB

  Problem: HTX exercisers stopped on error, with HTX log showing "rc 11,
  errno 11 from main(): pthread_create"

  htxubuntu-425

  lpar: busybee.aus.stglabs.ibm.com (root/ lab passwd)

  root at busybee:~# uname -a
  Linux busybee 4.4.0-51-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 24 18:27:59 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

  root at busybee:~# cat /tmp/htxerr

  /dev/sdh          Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdh          Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  Hardware Exerciser stopped on an error

  /dev/sdao         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdao         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  Hardware Exerciser stopped on an error

  /dev/sddx         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sddx         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  Hardware Exerciser stopped on an error

  /dev/sdcz         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdcz         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  Hardware Exerciser stopped on an error

  /dev/sddp         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sddp         Dec 12 23:52:42 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  Hardware Exerciser stopped on an error

  No errors logged in syslog after starting HTX:

  ==== State: Open by: asperez on 16 December 2016 10:28:02 ====
  This error recreated on the smaller 1U Open Power system with the same smaller 1-adapter/1-4U90 drawer/90 HDD. There are 2 cables connected to the drawer (one to each ESM) that requires multipath enabled.

  lpar: yellowbee

  root at yellowbee:~# cat /tmp/htxerr

  /dev/sdao         Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdak         Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdt          Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdaz         Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdn          Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdv          Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdaj         Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  /dev/sdal         Dec 16 01:14:44 2016 err=0000000b sev=1 hxestorage
  rc 11, errno 11 from main(): pthread_create

  ==== State: Open by: cde00 on 19 December 2016 02:48:46 ====

  This defect will go to Linux as even after making the below 2 changes
  in systemd resource limit, errors are seen:

  root at yellowbee:/etc/systemd/logind.conf.d# cat htxlogindcustom.conf
  [Login]
  UserTasksMax=infinity
  root at yellowbee:/etc/systemd/logind.conf.d# cat ../system.conf.d/htxsystemdcustom.conf
  [Manager]
  DefaultTasksAccounting=yes
  DefaultTasksMax=infinity

  root at yellowbee:/etc/systemd/logind.conf.d#

  logind limit for MaxUserTask as well as systemd limit was made infinite.
  Please look defect SW363655 for more details and the suggestion given earlier by Linux team.

  errors are still seen. So, would ask Linux team to take a look and see if anything else is causing these
  errors.

  == Comment: #3 - Kevin W. Rudd <ruddk at us.ibm.com> - 2016-12-19 17:34:27 ==
  It appears that the version of logind on this system does not support the value of "infinity", and is reverting to the default of 12288:

  # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/user.slice/user-0.slice/pids.max
  12288

  As a workaround until this can be resolved, specify an exact value.
  You can try using the current system thread-max value:

  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
  3974272

  /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/htxlogindcustom.conf:
  [Login]
  UserTasksMax=3974272

  == Comment: #4 - Kevin W. Rudd - 2016-12-20 10:25:09 ==

  Canonical,

  This issue appears to map to the following systemd bug and patch:

  https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3833

  https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/f50582649f8eee73f59aff95fadd9a963ed4ffea

  This patch appears to be included in debian/232-7, but is missing in
  the xenial and yakkety versions.

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