Re: [PATCH for-next] io_uring: ensure IOSQE_ASYNC file table grabbing works, with SQPOLL

Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-09T17:02:14Z

On 09/09/2020 16:10, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 9/9/20 1:09 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 09/09/2020 01:54, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 9/8/20 3:22 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On 9/8/20 2:58 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>>> On 08/09/2020 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>> Fd instantiating commands like IORING_OP_ACCEPT now work with SQPOLL, but
>>>>>> we have an error in grabbing that if IOSQE_ASYNC is set. Ensure we assign
>>>>>> the ring fd/file appropriately so we can defer grab them.
>>>>>
>>>>> IIRC, for fcheck() in io_grab_files() to work it should be under fdget(),
>>>>> that isn't the case with SQPOLL threads. Am I mistaken?
>>>>>
>>>>> And it looks strange that the following snippet will effectively disable
>>>>> such requests.
>>>>>
>>>>> fd = dup(ring_fd)
>>>>> close(ring_fd)
>>>>> ring_fd = fd
>>>>
>>>> Not disagreeing with that, I think my initial posting made it clear
>>>> it was a hack. Just piled it in there for easier testing in terms
>>>> of functionality.
>>>>
>>>> But the next question is how to do this right...>
>>> Looking at this a bit more, and I don't necessarily think there's a
>>> better option. If you dup+close, then it just won't work. We have no
>>> way of knowing if the 'fd' changed, but we can detect if it was closed
>>> and then we'll end up just EBADF'ing the requests.
>>>
>>> So right now the answer is that we can support this just fine with
>>> SQPOLL, but you better not dup and close the original fd. Which is not
>>> ideal, but better than NOT being able to support it.
>>>
>>> Only other option I see is to to provide an io_uring_register()
>>> command to update the fd/file associated with it. Which may be useful,
>>> it allows a process to indeed to this, if it absolutely has to.
>>
>> Let's put aside such dirty hacks, at least until someone actually
>> needs it. Ideally, for many reasons I'd prefer to get rid of
>
> BUt it is actually needed, otherwise we're even more in a limbo state of
> "SQPOLL works for most things now, just not all". And this isn't that
> hard to make right - on the flush() side, we just need to park/stall the

I understand that it isn't hard, but I just don't want to expose it to
the userspace, a) because it's a userspace API, so couldn't probably be
killed in the future, b) works around kernel's problems, and so
shouldn't really be exposed to the userspace in normal circumstances.

And it's not generic enough because of a possible "many fds -> single
file" mapping, and there will be a lot of questions and problems.

e.g. if a process shares a io_uring with another process, then
dup()+close() would require not only this hook but also additional
inter-process synchronisation. And so on.

> thread and clear the ring_fd/ring_file, then mark the ring as needing a
> queue enter. On the queue enter, we re-set the fd/file if they're NULL,
> unpark/unstall the thread. That's it. I'll write this up and test it.
>
>> fcheck(ctx->ring_fd) in favour of synchronisation in io_grab_files(),
>> but I wish I knew how.
>
> That'd be nice, and apply equally to all cases as the SQPOLL case isn't
> special at all anymore.

I miss the whole story, have you asked fs guys about the problem?
Or is it known that nothing would work?

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Pavel Begunkov