Re: [RFC v5 PATCH 6/9] xfs: automatically relog the quotaoff start intent

Darrick J. Wong
2020-02-29T05:35:39Z

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 09:04:13AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 05:16:40PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:43:18AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> > > The quotaoff operation has a rare but longstanding deadlock vector
> > > in terms of how the operation is logged. A quotaoff start intent is
> > > logged (synchronously) at the onset to ensure recovery can handle
> > > the operation if interrupted before in-core changes are made. This
> > > quotaoff intent pins the log tail while the quotaoff sequence scans
> > > and purges dquots from all in-core inodes. While this operation
> > > generally doesn't generate much log traffic on its own, it can be
> > > time consuming. If unrelated, concurrent filesystem activity
> > > consumes remaining log space before quotaoff is able to acquire log
> > > reservation for the quotaoff end intent, the filesystem locks up
> > > indefinitely.
> > >
> > > quotaoff cannot allocate the end intent before the scan because the
> > > latter can result in transaction allocation itself in certain
> > > indirect cases (releasing an inode, for example). Further, rolling
> > > the original transaction is difficult because the scanning work
> > > occurs multiple layers down where caller context is lost and not
> > > much information is available to determine how often to roll the
> > > transaction.
> > >
> > > To address this problem, enable automatic relogging of the quotaoff
> > > start intent. This automatically relogs the intent whenever AIL
> > > pushing finds the item at the tail of the log. When quotaoff
> > > completes, wait for relogging to complete as the end intent expects
> > > to be able to permanently remove the start intent from the log
> > > subsystem. This ensures that the log tail is kept moving during a
> > > particularly long quotaoff operation and avoids the log reservation
> > > deadlock.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c | 3 ++-
> > > fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item.c | 7 +++++++
> > > fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> > > 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
> > > index 1f5c9e6e1afc..f49b20c9ca33 100644
> > > --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
> > > +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
> > > @@ -935,7 +935,8 @@ xfs_trans_resv_calc(
> > > resp->tr_qm_setqlim.tr_logcount = XFS_DEFAULT_LOG_COUNT;
> > >
> > > resp->tr_qm_quotaoff.tr_logres = xfs_calc_qm_quotaoff_reservation(mp);
> > > - resp->tr_qm_quotaoff.tr_logcount = XFS_DEFAULT_LOG_COUNT;
> > > + resp->tr_qm_quotaoff.tr_logcount = XFS_DEFAULT_PERM_LOG_COUNT;
> > > + resp->tr_qm_quotaoff.tr_logflags |= XFS_TRANS_PERM_LOG_RES;
> > >
> > > resp->tr_qm_equotaoff.tr_logres =
> > > xfs_calc_qm_quotaoff_end_reservation();
> > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item.c
> > > index d60647d7197b..ea5123678466 100644
> > > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item.c
> > > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item.c
> > > @@ -297,6 +297,13 @@ xfs_qm_qoff_logitem_push(
> > > struct xfs_log_item *lip,
> > > struct list_head *buffer_list)
> > > {
> > > + struct xfs_log_item *mlip = xfs_ail_min(lip->li_ailp);
> > > +
> > > + if (test_bit(XFS_LI_RELOG, &lip->li_flags) &&
> > > + !test_bit(XFS_LI_RELOGGED, &lip->li_flags) &&
> > > + !XFS_LSN_CMP(lip->li_lsn, mlip->li_lsn))
> > > + return XFS_ITEM_RELOG;
> > > +
> > > return XFS_ITEM_LOCKED;
> > > }
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c
> > > index 1ea82764bf89..7b48d34da0f4 100644
> > > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c
> > > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c
> > > @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
> > > #include "xfs_quota.h"
> > > #include "xfs_qm.h"
> > > #include "xfs_icache.h"
> > > +#include "xfs_trans_priv.h"
> > >
> > > STATIC int
> > > xfs_qm_log_quotaoff(
> > > @@ -31,12 +32,14 @@ xfs_qm_log_quotaoff(
> > >
> > > *qoffstartp = NULL;
> > >
> > > - error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_qm_quotaoff, 0, 0, 0, &tp);
> > > + error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_qm_quotaoff, 0, 0,
> > > + XFS_TRANS_RELOG, &tp);
> >
> > Humm, maybe I don't understand how this works after all. From what I
> > can tell from this patch, (1) the quotaoff transaction is created with
> > RELOG, so (2) the AIL steals some reservation from it for an eventual
> > relogging of the quotaoff item, and then (3) we log the quotaoff item.
> >
>
> Yep.
>
> > Later, the AIL can decide to trigger the workqueue item to take the
> > ticket generated in step (2) to relog the item we logged in step (3) to
> > move the log tail forward, but what happens if there are further delays
> > and the AIL needs to relog again? That ticket from (2) is now used up
> > and is gone, right?
> >
> > I suppose some other RELOG transaction could wander in and generate a
> > new relog ticket, but as this is the only RELOG transaction that gets
> > created anywhere, that won't happen. Is there some magic I missed? :)
> >
>
> xfs_ail_relog() only ever rolls its transaction, even if nothing else
> happens to be queued at the time, so the relog ticket constantly
> regrants. Since relogs never commit, the relog ticket always has
> available relog reservation so long as XFS_LI_RELOG items exist. Once
> there are no more relog items or transactions, the pending reservation
> is released via xfs_trans_ail_relog_put() -> xfs_log_done().

Aha, that's the subtlety I didn't quite catch. :)

Now that I see how this works for the simple case, I guess I'll try to
figure out on my own what would happen if we flooded the system with a
/lot/ of reloggable items. Though I bet you've already done that, given
our earlier speculating about closing the writeback hole.

> It might be more simple to reason about the reservation model if you
> factor out the dynamic relog ticket bits. This is basically equivalent
> to the AIL allocating a relog transaction at mount time, constantly
> rolling it with relog items when they pass through, and then cancelling
> the reservation at unmount time. All of the extra XFS_TRANS_RELOG and
> reference counting and ticket management stuff is purely so we only have
> an active relog reservation when relogging is being used.

<nod>

--D

> Brian
>
> > --D
> >
> > > if (error)
> > > goto out;
> > >
> > > qoffi = xfs_trans_get_qoff_item(tp, NULL, flags & XFS_ALL_QUOTA_ACCT);
> > > xfs_trans_log_quotaoff_item(tp, qoffi);
> > > + xfs_trans_relog_item(&qoffi->qql_item);
> > >
> > > spin_lock(&mp->m_sb_lock);
> > > mp->m_sb.sb_qflags = (mp->m_qflags & ~(flags)) & XFS_MOUNT_QUOTA_ALL;
> > > @@ -69,6 +72,13 @@ xfs_qm_log_quotaoff_end(
> > > int error;
> > > struct xfs_qoff_logitem *qoffi;
> > >
> > > + /*
> > > + * startqoff must be in the AIL and not the CIL when the end intent
> > > + * commits to ensure it is not readded to the AIL out of order. Wait on
> > > + * relog activity to drain to isolate startqoff to the AIL.
> > > + */
> > > + xfs_trans_relog_item_cancel(&startqoff->qql_item, true);
> > > +
> > > error = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_qm_equotaoff, 0, 0, 0, &tp);
> > > if (error)
> > > return error;
> > > --
> > > 2.21.1
> > >
> >
>