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From: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
To: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>, John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sbitmap: only queue kyber's wait callback if not already active
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:00:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191217160024.GA23066@redhat> (raw)

Under heavy loads where the kyber I/O scheduler hits the token limits for
its scheduling domains, kyber can become stuck.  When active requests
complete, kyber may not be woken up leaving the I/O requests in kyber
stuck.

This stuck state is due to a race condition with kyber and the sbitmap
functions it uses to run a callback when enough requests have completed.
The running of a sbt_wait callback can race with the attempt to insert the
sbt_wait.  Since sbitmap_del_wait_queue removes the sbt_wait from the list
first then sets the sbq field to NULL, kyber can see the item as not on a
list but the call to sbitmap_add_wait_queue will see sbq as non-NULL. This
results in the sbt_wait being inserted onto the wait list but ws_active
doesn't get incremented.  So the sbitmap queue does not know there is a
waiter on a wait list.

Since sbitmap doesn't think there is a waiter, kyber may never be
informed that there are domain tokens available and the I/O never advances.
With the sbt_wait on a wait list, kyber believes it has an active waiter
so cannot insert a new waiter when reaching the domain's full state.

This race can be fixed by only adding the sbt_wait to the queue if the
sbq field is NULL.  If sbq is not NULL, there is already an action active
which will trigger the re-running of kyber.  Let it run and add the
sbt_wait to the wait list if still needing to wait.

Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Reported-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
---

This bug was reliably being triggered on several test systems.  With the
fix, the tests no longer fail.

 sbitmap.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/sbitmap.c b/lib/sbitmap.c
index 33feec8989f1..af88d1346dd7 100644
--- a/lib/sbitmap.c
+++ b/lib/sbitmap.c
@@ -650,8 +650,8 @@ void sbitmap_add_wait_queue(struct sbitmap_queue *sbq,
 	if (!sbq_wait->sbq) {
 		sbq_wait->sbq = sbq;
 		atomic_inc(&sbq->ws_active);
+		add_wait_queue(&ws->wait, &sbq_wait->wait);
 	}
-	add_wait_queue(&ws->wait, &sbq_wait->wait);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sbitmap_add_wait_queue);
 


             reply	other threads:[~2019-12-17 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-17 16:00 David Jeffery [this message]
2019-12-18  1:14 ` [PATCH] sbitmap: only queue kyber's wait callback if not already active Jens Axboe
2019-12-19 21:41 ` Omar Sandoval

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