In this case, it is basically a polling. Let's not involve timer at all
because that would hurt performance for application event loops.
In an arbitrary test I've done, io_getevents syscall elapsed time
reduces from 50000+ nanoseconds to a few hundereds.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
There are actually two issues this patch addresses. Let me start with
the one I tried to solve in the beginning.
So, in the checkpoint-restore project (criu) we try to dump tasks'
state and restore one back exactly as it was. One of the tasks' state
bits is rings set up with io_setup() call. There's (almost) no problems
in dumping them, there's a problem restoring them -- if I dump a task
with aio ring originally mapped at address A, I want to restore one
back at exactly the same address A. Unfortunately, the io_setup() does
not allow for that -- it mmaps the ring at whatever place mm finds
appropriate (it calls do_mmap_pgoff() with zero address and without
the MAP_FIXED flag).
To make restore possible I'm going to mremap() the freshly created ring
into the address A (under which it was seen before dump). The problem is
that the ring's virtual address is passed back to the user-space as the
context ID and this ID is then used as search key by all the other io_foo()
calls. Reworking this ID to be just some integer doesn't seem to work, as
this value is already used by libaio as a pointer using which this library
accesses memory for aio meta-data.
So, to make restore work we need to make sure that
a) ring is mapped at desired virtual address
b) kioctx->user_id matches this value
Having said that, the patch makes mremap() on aio region update the
kioctx's user_id and mmap_base values.
Here appears the 2nd issue I mentioned in the beginning of this mail.
If (regardless of the C/R dances I do) someone creates an io context
with io_setup(), then mremap()-s the ring and then destroys the context,
the kill_ioctx() routine will call munmap() on wrong (old) address.
This will result in a) aio ring remaining in memory and b) some other
vma get unexpectedly unmapped.
What do you think?
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Pull aio fix from Ben LaHaise:
"Dirty page accounting fix for aio"
* git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-fixes:
aio: fix uncorrent dirty pages accouting when truncating AIO ring buffer
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86831
Markus reported that when shutting down mysqld (with AIO support,
on a ext3 formatted Harddrive) leads to a negative number of dirty pages
(underrun to the counter). The negative number results in a drastic reduction
of the write performance because the page cache is not used, because the kernel
thinks it is still 2 ^ 32 dirty pages open.
Add a warn trace in __dec_zone_state will catch this easily:
static inline void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum
zone_stat_item item)
{
atomic_long_dec(&zone->vm_stat[item]);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(item == NR_FILE_DIRTY &&
atomic_long_read(&zone->vm_stat[item]) < 0);
atomic_long_dec(&vm_stat[item]);
}
[ 21.341632] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 21.346294] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 309 at include/linux/vmstat.h:242
cancel_dirty_page+0x164/0x224()
[ 21.355296] Modules linked in: wutbox_cp sata_mv
[ 21.359968] CPU: 0 PID: 309 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 3.14.21-WuT #80
[ 21.366793] Workqueue: events free_ioctx
[ 21.370760] [<c0016a64>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0012f88>]
(show_stack+0x20/0x24)
[ 21.378562] [<c0012f88>] (show_stack) from [<c03f8ccc>]
(dump_stack+0x24/0x28)
[ 21.385840] [<c03f8ccc>] (dump_stack) from [<c0023ae4>]
(warn_slowpath_common+0x84/0x9c)
[ 21.393976] [<c0023ae4>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c0023bb8>]
(warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x34)
[ 21.402800] [<c0023bb8>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c00c0688>]
(cancel_dirty_page+0x164/0x224)
[ 21.411524] [<c00c0688>] (cancel_dirty_page) from [<c00c080c>]
(truncate_inode_page+0x8c/0x158)
[ 21.420272] [<c00c080c>] (truncate_inode_page) from [<c00c0a94>]
(truncate_inode_pages_range+0x11c/0x53c)
[ 21.429890] [<c00c0a94>] (truncate_inode_pages_range) from
[<c00c0f6c>] (truncate_pagecache+0x88/0xac)
[ 21.439252] [<c00c0f6c>] (truncate_pagecache) from [<c00c0fec>]
(truncate_setsize+0x5c/0x74)
[ 21.447731] [<c00c0fec>] (truncate_setsize) from [<c013b3a8>]
(put_aio_ring_file.isra.14+0x34/0x90)
[ 21.456826] [<c013b3a8>] (put_aio_ring_file.isra.14) from
[<c013b424>] (aio_free_ring+0x20/0xcc)
[ 21.465660] [<c013b424>] (aio_free_ring) from [<c013b4f4>]
(free_ioctx+0x24/0x44)
[ 21.473190] [<c013b4f4>] (free_ioctx) from [<c003d8d8>]
(process_one_work+0x134/0x47c)
[ 21.481132] [<c003d8d8>] (process_one_work) from [<c003e988>]
(worker_thread+0x130/0x414)
[ 21.489350] [<c003e988>] (worker_thread) from [<c00448ac>]
(kthread+0xd4/0xec)
[ 21.496621] [<c00448ac>] (kthread) from [<c000ec18>]
(ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20)
[ 21.503884] ---[ end trace 79c4bf42c038c9a1 ]---
The cause is that we set the aio ring file pages as *DIRTY* via SetPageDirty
(bypasses the VFS dirty pages increment) when init, and aio fs uses
*default_backing_dev_info* as the backing dev, which does not disable
the dirty pages accounting capability.
So truncating aio ring file will contribute to accounting dirty pages (VFS
dirty pages decrement), then error occurs.
The original goal is keeping these pages in memory (can not be reclaimed
or swapped) in life-time via marking it dirty. But thinking more, we have
already pinned pages via elevating the page's refcount, which can already
achieve the goal, so the SetPageDirty seems unnecessary.
In order to fix the issue, using the __set_page_dirty_no_writeback instead
of the nop .set_page_dirty, and dropped the SetPageDirty (don't manually
set the dirty flags, don't disable set_page_dirty(), rely on default behaviour).
With the above change, the dirty pages accounting can work well. But as we
known, aio fs is an anonymous one, which should never cause any real write-back,
we can ignore the dirty pages (write back) accounting by disabling the dirty
pages (write back) accounting capability. So we introduce an aio private
backing dev info (disabled the ACCT_DIRTY/WRITEBACK/ACCT_WB capabilities) to
replace the default one.
Reported-by: Markus Königshaus <m.koenigshaus@wut.de>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
With the recent addition of percpu_ref_reinit(), percpu_ref now can be
used as a persistent switch which can be turned on and off repeatedly
where turning off maps to killing the ref and waiting for it to drain;
however, there currently isn't a way to initialize a percpu_ref in its
off (killed and drained) state, which can be inconvenient for certain
persistent switch use cases.
Similarly, percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic/percpu() allow dynamic
selection of operation mode; however, currently a newly initialized
percpu_ref is always in percpu mode making it impossible to avoid the
latency overhead of switching to atomic mode.
This patch adds @flags to percpu_ref_init() and implements the
following flags.
* PERCPU_REF_INIT_ATOMIC : start ref in atomic mode
* PERCPU_REF_INIT_DEAD : start ref killed and drained
These flags should be able to serve the above two use cases.
v2: target_core_tpg.c conversion was missing. Fixed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
This is to receive 0a30288da1 ("blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a
kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe") which implements
__percpu_ref_kill_expedited() to work around SCSI blk-mq stall. The
commit reverted and patches to implement proper fix will be added.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask. Add @gfp to
percpu_ref_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_refs too.
This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
v2: blk-mq conversion was missing. Updated.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
It seems that exit_aio() also needs to wait for all iocbs to complete (like
io_destroy), but we missed the wait step in current implemention, so fix
it in the same way as we did in io_destroy.
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
We ran into a case on ppc64 running mariadb where io_getevents would
return zeroed out I/O events. After adding instrumentation, it became
clear that there was some missing synchronization between reading the
tail pointer and the events themselves. This small patch fixes the
problem in testing.
Thanks to Zach for helping to look into this, and suggesting the fix.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
As reported by Dan Aloni, commit f8567a3845 ("aio: fix aio request
leak when events are reaped by userspace") introduces a regression when
user code attempts to perform io_submit() with more events than are
available in the ring buffer. Reverting that commit would reintroduce a
regression when user space event reaping is used.
Fixing this bug is a bit more involved than the previous attempts to fix
this regression. Since we do not have a single point at which we can
count events as being reaped by user space and io_getevents(), we have
to track event completion by looking at the number of events left in the
event ring. So long as there are as many events in the ring buffer as
there have been completion events generate, we cannot call
put_reqs_available(). The code to check for this is now placed in
refill_reqs_available().
A test program from Dan and modified by me for verifying this bug is available
at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/20140824-aio_bug.c .
Reported-by: Dan Aloni <dan@kernelim.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Dan Aloni <dan@kernelim.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16 and anything that f8567a3845 was backported to
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull aio updates from Ben LaHaise.
* git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next:
aio: use iovec array rather than the single one
aio: fix some comments
aio: use the macro rather than the inline magic number
aio: remove the needless registration of ring file's private_data
aio: remove no longer needed preempt_disable()
aio: kill the misleading rcu read locks in ioctx_add_table() and kill_ioctx()
aio: change exit_aio() to load mm->ioctx_table once and avoid rcu_read_lock()
Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
- Major reorganization of percpu header files which I think makes
things a lot more readable and logical than before.
- percpu-refcount is updated so that it requires explicit destruction
and can be reinitialized if necessary. This was pulled into the
block tree to replace the custom percpu refcnting implemented in
blk-mq.
- In the process, percpu and percpu-refcount got cleaned up a bit
* 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (21 commits)
percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_reinit() and percpu_ref_is_zero()
percpu-refcount: require percpu_ref to be exited explicitly
percpu-refcount: use unsigned long for pcpu_count pointer
percpu-refcount: add helpers for ->percpu_count accesses
percpu-refcount: one bit is enough for REF_STATUS
percpu-refcount, aio: use percpu_ref_cancel_init() in ioctx_alloc()
workqueue: stronger test in process_one_work()
workqueue: clear POOL_DISASSOCIATED in rebind_workers()
percpu: Use ALIGN macro instead of hand coding alignment calculation
percpu: invoke __verify_pcpu_ptr() from the generic part of accessors and operations
percpu: preffity percpu header files
percpu: use raw_cpu_*() to define __this_cpu_*()
percpu: reorder macros in percpu header files
percpu: move {raw|this}_cpu_*() definitions to include/linux/percpu-defs.h
percpu: move generic {raw|this}_cpu_*_N() definitions to include/asm-generic/percpu.h
percpu: only allow sized arch overrides for {raw|this}_cpu_*() ops
percpu: reorganize include/linux/percpu-defs.h
percpu: move accessors from include/linux/percpu.h to percpu-defs.h
percpu: include/asm-generic/percpu.h should contain only arch-overridable parts
percpu: introduce arch_raw_cpu_ptr()
...
Previously, we only offer a single iovec to handle all the read/write cases, so
the PREADV/PWRITEV request always need to alloc more iovec buffer when copying
user vectors.
If we use a tmp iovec array rather than the single one, some small PREADV/PWRITEV
workloads(vector size small than the tmp buffer) will not need to alloc more
iovec buffer when copying user vectors.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
The function comments of aio_run_iocb and aio_read_events are out of date, so
fix them here.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Replace the inline magic number with the ready-made macro(AIO_RING_MAGIC),
just clean up.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Based on feedback from Jens Axboe on 263782c1c9,
clean up get/put_reqs_available() to remove the no longer needed preempt_disable()
and preempt_enable() pair.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
As of commit f8567a3845 it is now possible to
have put_reqs_available() called from irq context. While put_reqs_available()
is per cpu, it did not protect itself from interrupts on the same CPU. This
lead to aio_complete() corrupting the available io requests count when run
under a heavy O_DIRECT workloads as reported by Robert Elliott. Fix this by
disabling irq updates around the per cpu batch updates of reqs_available.
Many thanks to Robert and folks for testing and tracking this down.
Reported-by: Robert Elliot <Elliott@hp.com>
Tested-by: Robert Elliot <Elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kenel.org
Currently, a percpu_ref undoes percpu_ref_init() automatically by
freeing the allocated percpu area when the percpu_ref is killed.
While seemingly convenient, this has the following niggles.
* It's impossible to re-init a released reference counter without
going through re-allocation.
* In the similar vein, it's impossible to initialize a percpu_ref
count with static percpu variables.
* We need and have an explicit destructor anyway for failure paths -
percpu_ref_cancel_init().
This patch removes the automatic percpu counter freeing in
percpu_ref_kill_rcu() and repurposes percpu_ref_cancel_init() into a
generic destructor now named percpu_ref_exit(). percpu_ref_destroy()
is considered but it gets confusing with percpu_ref_kill() while
"exit" clearly indicates that it's the counterpart of
percpu_ref_init().
All percpu_ref_cancel_init() users are updated to invoke
percpu_ref_exit() instead and explicit percpu_ref_exit() calls are
added to the destruction path of all percpu_ref users.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
ioctx_alloc() reaches inside percpu_ref and directly frees
->pcpu_count in its failure path, which is quite gross. percpu_ref
has been providing a proper interface to do this,
percpu_ref_cancel_init(), for quite some time now. Let's use that
instead.
This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
ioctx_add_table() is the writer, it does not need rcu_read_lock() to
protect ->ioctx_table. It relies on mm->ioctx_lock and rcu locks just
add the confusion.
And it doesn't need rcu_dereference() by the same reason, it must see
any updates previously done under the same ->ioctx_lock. We could use
rcu_dereference_protected() but the patch uses rcu_dereference_raw(),
the function is simple enough.
The same for kill_ioctx(), although it does not update the pointer.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
On 04/30, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> > - ctx->mmap_size = 0;
> > -
> > - kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL);
> > + if (ctx) {
> > + ctx->mmap_size = 0;
> > + kill_ioctx(mm, ctx, NULL);
> > + }
>
> Rather than indenting and moving the two lines changing mmap_size and the
> kill_ioctx() call, why not just do "if (!ctx) ... continue;"? That reduces
> the number of lines changed and avoid excessive indentation.
OK. To me the code looks better/simpler with "if (ctx)", but this is subjective
of course, I won't argue.
The patch still removes the empty line between mmap_size = 0 and kill_ioctx(),
we reset mmap_size only for kill_ioctx(). But feel free to remove this change.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] aio: change exit_aio() to load mm->ioctx_table once and avoid rcu_read_lock()
1. We can read ->ioctx_table only once and we do not read rcu_read_lock()
or even rcu_dereference().
This mm has no users, nobody else can play with ->ioctx_table. Otherwise
the code is buggy anyway, if we need rcu_read_lock() in a loop because
->ioctx_table can be updated then kfree(table) is obviously wrong.
2. Update the comment. "exit_mmap(mm) is coming" is the good reason to avoid
munmap(), but another reason is that we simply can't do vm_munmap() unless
current->mm == mm and this is not true in general, the caller is mmput().
3. We do not really need to nullify mm->ioctx_table before return, probably
the current code does this to catch the potential problems. But in this
case RCU_INIT_POINTER(NULL) looks better.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
A kernel memory disclosure was introduced in aio_read_events_ring() in v3.10
by commit a31ad380be. The changes made to
aio_read_events_ring() failed to correctly limit the index into
ctx->ring_pages[], allowing an attacked to cause the subsequent kmap() of
an arbitrary page with a copy_to_user() to copy the contents into userspace.
This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2014-0206. Thanks to Mateusz and
Petr for disclosing this issue.
This patch applies to v3.12+. A separate backport is needed for 3.10/3.11.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The aio cleanups and optimizations by kmo that were merged into the 3.10
tree added a regression for userspace event reaping. Specifically, the
reference counts are not decremented if the event is reaped in userspace,
leading to the application being unable to submit further aio requests.
This patch applies to 3.12+. A separate backport is required for 3.10/3.11.
This issue was uncovered as part of CVE-2014-0206.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Fam Zheng
Pavel Emelyanov
Linus Torvalds
Gu Zheng
Tejun Heo
Jeff Moyer
Benjamin LaHaise
Oleg Nesterov