[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.18 19/53] sched/core: Always flush pending blk_plug

Sasha Levin
2022-08-08T01:43:49Z

From: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>

[ Upstream commit 401e4963bf45c800e3e9ea0d3a0289d738005fd4 ]

With CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, it is possible to hit a deadlock between two
normal priority tasks (SCHED_OTHER, nice level zero):

INFO: task kworker/u8:0:8 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/u8:0 state:D stack: 0 pid: 8 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000000
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
[<c08a3a10>] (__schedule) from [<c08a3d84>] (schedule+0xdc/0x134)
[<c08a3d84>] (schedule) from [<c08a65a0>] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0+0xb8/0x174)
[<c08a65a0>] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0) from [<c08a6708>]
+(rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0+0xac/0x174)
[<c08a6708>] (rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0) from [<c0374d60>] (fat_write_inode+0x34/0x54)
[<c0374d60>] (fat_write_inode) from [<c0297304>] (__writeback_single_inode+0x354/0x3ec)
[<c0297304>] (__writeback_single_inode) from [<c0297998>] (writeback_sb_inodes+0x250/0x45c)
[<c0297998>] (writeback_sb_inodes) from [<c0297c20>] (__writeback_inodes_wb+0x7c/0xb8)
[<c0297c20>] (__writeback_inodes_wb) from [<c0297f24>] (wb_writeback+0x2c8/0x2e4)
[<c0297f24>] (wb_writeback) from [<c0298c40>] (wb_workfn+0x1a4/0x3e4)
[<c0298c40>] (wb_workfn) from [<c0138ab8>] (process_one_work+0x1fc/0x32c)
[<c0138ab8>] (process_one_work) from [<c0139120>] (worker_thread+0x22c/0x2d8)
[<c0139120>] (worker_thread) from [<c013e6e0>] (kthread+0x16c/0x178)
[<c013e6e0>] (kthread) from [<c01000fc>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x38)
Exception stack(0xc10e3fb0 to 0xc10e3ff8)
3fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
3fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000

INFO: task tar:2083 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:tar state:D stack: 0 pid: 2083 ppid: 2082 flags:0x00000000
[<c08a3a10>] (__schedule) from [<c08a3d84>] (schedule+0xdc/0x134)
[<c08a3d84>] (schedule) from [<c08a41b0>] (io_schedule+0x14/0x24)
[<c08a41b0>] (io_schedule) from [<c08a455c>] (bit_wait_io+0xc/0x30)
[<c08a455c>] (bit_wait_io) from [<c08a441c>] (__wait_on_bit_lock+0x54/0xa8)
[<c08a441c>] (__wait_on_bit_lock) from [<c08a44f4>] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x84/0xb0)
[<c08a44f4>] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock) from [<c0371fb0>] (fat_mirror_bhs+0xa0/0x144)
[<c0371fb0>] (fat_mirror_bhs) from [<c0372a68>] (fat_alloc_clusters+0x138/0x2a4)
[<c0372a68>] (fat_alloc_clusters) from [<c0370b14>] (fat_alloc_new_dir+0x34/0x250)
[<c0370b14>] (fat_alloc_new_dir) from [<c03787c0>] (vfat_mkdir+0x58/0x148)
[<c03787c0>] (vfat_mkdir) from [<c0277b60>] (vfs_mkdir+0x68/0x98)
[<c0277b60>] (vfs_mkdir) from [<c027b484>] (do_mkdirat+0xb0/0xec)
[<c027b484>] (do_mkdirat) from [<c0100060>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
Exception stack(0xc2e1bfa8 to 0xc2e1bff0)
bfa0: 01ee42f0 01ee4208 01ee42f0 000041ed 00000000 00004000
bfc0: 01ee42f0 01ee4208 00000000 00000027 01ee4302 00000004 000dcb00 01ee4190
bfe0: 000dc368 bed11924 0006d4b0 b6ebddfc

Here the kworker is waiting on msdos_sb_info::s_lock which is held by
tar which is in turn waiting for a buffer which is locked waiting to be
flushed, but this operation is plugged in the kworker.

The lock is a normal struct mutex, so tsk_is_pi_blocked() will always
return false on !RT and thus the behaviour changes for RT.

It seems that the intent here is to skip blk_flush_plug() in the case
where a non-preemptible lock (such as a spinlock) has been converted to
a rtmutex on RT, which is the case covered by the SM_RTLOCK_WAIT
schedule flag. But sched_submit_work() is only called from schedule()
which is never called in this scenario, so the check can simply be
deleted.

Looking at the history of the -rt patchset, in fact this change was
present from v5.9.1-rt20 until being dropped in v5.13-rt1 as it was part
of a larger patch [1] most of which was replaced by commit b4bfa3fcfe3b
("sched/core: Rework the __schedule() preempt argument").

As described in [1]:

The schedule process must distinguish between blocking on a regular
sleeping lock (rwsem and mutex) and a RT-only sleeping lock (spinlock
and rwlock):
- rwsem and mutex must flush block requests (blk_schedule_flush_plug())
even if blocked on a lock. This can not deadlock because this also
happens for non-RT.
There should be a warning if the scheduling point is within a RCU read
section.

- spinlock and rwlock must not flush block requests. This will deadlock
if the callback attempts to acquire a lock which is already acquired.
Similarly to being preempted, there should be no warning if the
scheduling point is within a RCU read section.

and with the tsk_is_pi_blocked() in the scheduler path, we hit the first
issue.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/tree/patches/0022-locking-rtmutex-Use-custom-scheduling-function-for-s.patch?h=linux-5.10.y-rt-patches

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220708162702.1758865-1-john@metanate.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/sched/rt.h | 8 --------
kernel/sched/core.c | 8 ++++++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/rt.h b/include/linux/sched/rt.h
index e5af028c08b4..994c25640e15 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/rt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/rt.h
@@ -39,20 +39,12 @@ static inline struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_task(struct task_struct *p)
}
extern void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *pi_task);
extern void rt_mutex_adjust_pi(struct task_struct *p);
-static inline bool tsk_is_pi_blocked(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
- return tsk->pi_blocked_on != NULL;
-}
#else
static inline struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_task(struct task_struct *task)
{
return NULL;
}
# define rt_mutex_adjust_pi(p) do { } while (0)
-static inline bool tsk_is_pi_blocked(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
- return false;
-}
#endif

extern void normalize_rt_tasks(void);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index dd11daa7a84b..6baf96d2fa39 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6460,8 +6460,12 @@ static inline void sched_submit_work(struct task_struct *tsk)
io_wq_worker_sleeping(tsk);
}

- if (tsk_is_pi_blocked(tsk))
- return;
+ /*
+ * spinlock and rwlock must not flush block requests. This will
+ * deadlock if the callback attempts to acquire a lock which is
+ * already acquired.
+ */
+ SCHED_WARN_ON(current->__state & TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT);

/*
* If we are going to sleep and we have plugged IO queued,
--
2.35.1