Re: [PATCH] bcache: fix deadlock in bcache_allocator()

Andrea Righi
2019-07-10T15:47:02Z

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:11:37PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> On 2019/7/10 5:31 下午, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > bcache_allocator() can call the following:
> >
> > bch_allocator_thread()
> > -> bch_prio_write()
> > -> bch_bucket_alloc()
> > -> wait on &ca->set->bucket_wait
> >
> > But the wake up event on bucket_wait is supposed to come from
> > bch_allocator_thread() itself => deadlock:
> >
> > [ 242.888435] INFO: task bcache_allocato:9015 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> > [ 242.893786] Not tainted 4.20.0-042000rc3-generic #201811182231
> > [ 242.896669] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> > [ 242.900428] bcache_allocato D 0 9015 2 0x80000000
> > [ 242.900434] Call Trace:
> > [ 242.900448] __schedule+0x2a2/0x880
> > [ 242.900455] ? __schedule+0x2aa/0x880
> > [ 242.900462] schedule+0x2c/0x80
> > [ 242.900480] bch_bucket_alloc+0x19d/0x380 [bcache]
> > [ 242.900503] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
> > [ 242.900519] bch_prio_write+0x190/0x340 [bcache]
> > [ 242.900530] bch_allocator_thread+0x482/0xd10 [bcache]
> > [ 242.900535] kthread+0x120/0x140
> > [ 242.900546] ? bch_invalidate_one_bucket+0x80/0x80 [bcache]
> > [ 242.900549] ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
> > [ 242.900554] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
> >
> > Fix by making the call to bch_prio_write() non-blocking, so that
> > bch_allocator_thread() never waits on itself.
> >
> > Moreover, make sure to wake up the garbage collector thread when
> > bch_prio_write() is failing to allocate buckets.
> >
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784665
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
>
> Hi Andrea,
>

Hi Coly,

> >From the BugLink, it seems several critical bcache fixes are missing.
> Could you please to try current 5.3-rc kernel, and try whether such
> problem exists or not ?

Sure, I'll do a test with the latest 5.3-rc kernel. I just wanna mention
that I've been able to reproduce this problem after backporting all the
fixes (even those from linux-next), but I agree that testing 5.3-rc is a
better idea (I may have introduced bugs while backporting stuff).

>
> For this patch itself, it looks good except that I am not sure whether
> invoking garbage collection is a proper method. Because bch_prio_write()
> is called right after garbage collection gets done, jump back to
> retry_invalidate: again may just hide a non-space long time waiting
> condition.

Honestly I was thinking the same, but if I don't call the garbage
collector bch_allocator_thread() gets stuck forever (or for a very very
long time) in the retry_invalidate loop...

>
> Could you please give me some hint, on how to reproduce such hang
> timeout situation. If I am lucky to reproduce such problem on 5.3-rc
> kernel, it may be very helpful to understand what exact problem your
> patch fixes.

Fortunately I have a reproducer, here's the script that I'm using:

---
#!/bin/bash -x

BACKING=/sys/class/block/bcache0
CACHE=/sys/fs/bcache/*-*-*
while true; do
echo "1" | tee ${BACKING}/bcache/stop
echo "1" | tee ${CACHE}/stop
udevadm settle
[ ! -e "${BACKING}" -a ! -e "${CACHE}" ] && break
sleep 1
done
wipefs --all --force /dev/vdc2
wipefs --all --force /dev/vdc1
wipefs --all --force /dev/vdc
wipefs --all --force /dev/vdd
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/vdc
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/vdd
udevadm settle

# create ext4 fs over bcache
parted /dev/vdc --script mklabel msdos || exit 1
udevadm settle --exit-if-exists=/dev/vdc
parted /dev/vdc --script mkpart primary 2048s 2047999s || exit 1
udevadm settle --exit-if-exists=/dev/vdc1
parted /dev/vdc --script mkpart primary 2048000s 20922367s || exit 1
udevadm settle --exit-if-exists=/dev/vdc2
make-bcache -C /dev/vdd || exit 1
while true; do
udevadm settle
CSET=`ls /sys/fs/bcache | grep -- -`
[ -n "$CSET" ] && break;
sleep 1
done
make-bcache -B /dev/vdc2 || exit 1
while true; do
udevadm settle
[ -e "${BACKING}" ] && break
sleep 1;
done
echo $CSET | tee ${BACKING}/bcache/attach
udevadm settle --exit-if-exists=/dev/bcache0
bcache-super-show /dev/vdc2
udevadm settle
mkfs.ext4 -F -L boot-fs -U e9f00d20-95a0-11e8-82a2-525400123401 /dev/vdc1
udevadm settle
mkfs.ext4 -F -L root-fs -U e9f00d21-95a0-11e8-82a2-525400123401 /dev/bcache0 || exit 1
blkid
---

I just run this as root in a busy loop (something like
`while :; do ./test.sh; done`) on a kvm instance with two extra disks
(in addition to the root disk).

The extra disks are created as following:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk1.qcow 10G
qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk2.qcow 2G

I'm using these particular sizes, but I think we can reproduce the same
problem also using different sizes.

Thanks,
-Andrea