(Trivial patch.)
If the code is looking at the RCU-protected pointer itself, but not
dereferencing it, the rcu_dereference() functions can be downgraded to
rcu_access_pointer(). This commit makes this downgrade in blkg_destroy()
and ioc_destroy_icq(), both of which simply compare the RCU-protected
pointer against another pointer with no dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
With users of radix_tree_preload() run from interrupt (block/blk-ioc.c is
one such possible user), the following race can happen:
radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
radix_tree_node_alloc()
if (rtp->nr) {
ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];
<interrupt>
...
radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
radix_tree_node_alloc()
if (rtp->nr) {
ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];
And we give out one radix tree node twice. That clearly results in radix
tree corruption with different results (usually OOPS) depending on which
two users of radix tree race.
We fix the problem by making radix_tree_node_alloc() always allocate fresh
radix tree nodes when in interrupt. Using preloading when in interrupt
doesn't make sense since all the allocations have to be atomic anyway and
we cannot steal nodes from process-context users because some users rely
on radix_tree_insert() succeeding after radix_tree_preload().
in_interrupt() check is somewhat ugly but we cannot simply key off passed
gfp_mask as that is acquired from root_gfp_mask() and thus the same for
all preload users.
Another part of the fix is to avoid node preallocation in
radix_tree_preload() when passed gfp_mask doesn't allow waiting. Again,
preallocation in such case doesn't make sense and when preallocation would
happen in interrupt we could possibly leak some allocated nodes. However,
some users of radix_tree_preload() require following radix_tree_insert()
to succeed. To avoid unexpected effects for these users,
radix_tree_preload() only warns if passed gfp mask doesn't allow waiting
and we provide a new function radix_tree_maybe_preload() for those users
which get different gfp mask from different call sites and which are
prepared to handle radix_tree_insert() failure.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Block layer uses workqueues for multiple purposes. There is no real dependency
of scheduling these on the cpu which scheduled them.
On a idle system, it is observed that and idle cpu wakes up many times just to
service this work. It would be better if we can schedule it on a cpu which the
scheduler believes to be the most appropriate one.
This patch replaces normal workqueues with power efficient versions.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hi,
I'm using the old-fashioned 'dump' backup tool, and I noticed that it spews the
below warning as of 3.5-rc1 and later (3.4 is fine):
[ 10.886893] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 10.886904] WARNING: at include/linux/iocontext.h:140 copy_process+0x1488/0x1560()
[ 10.886905] Hardware name: Bochs
[ 10.886906] Modules linked in:
[ 10.886908] Pid: 2430, comm: dump Not tainted 3.5.0-rc7+ #27
[ 10.886908] Call Trace:
[ 10.886911] [<ffffffff8107ce8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[ 10.886912] [<ffffffff8107ced5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 10.886913] [<ffffffff8107c088>] copy_process+0x1488/0x1560
[ 10.886914] [<ffffffff8107c244>] do_fork+0xb4/0x340
[ 10.886918] [<ffffffff8108effa>] ? recalc_sigpending+0x1a/0x50
[ 10.886919] [<ffffffff8108f6b2>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x32/0x80
[ 10.886920] [<ffffffff81091afa>] ? __set_current_blocked+0x3a/0x60
[ 10.886923] [<ffffffff81051db3>] sys_clone+0x23/0x30
[ 10.886925] [<ffffffff8179bd73>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
[ 10.886927] [<ffffffff8179baa2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 10.886928] ---[ end trace 32a14af7ee6a590b ]---
Reproducing is easy, I can hit it on a KVM system with a very basic
config (x86_64 make defconfig + enable the drivers needed). To hit it,
just install dump (on debian/ubuntu, not sure what the package might be
called on Fedora), and:
dump -o -f /tmp/foo /
You'll see the warning in dmesg once it forks off the I/O process and
starts dumping filesystem contents.
I bisected it down to the following commit:
commit f6e8d01bee
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon Mar 5 13:15:26 2012 -0800
block: add io_context->active_ref
Currently ioc->nr_tasks is used to decide two things - whether an ioc
is done issuing IOs and whether it's shared by multiple tasks. This
patch separate out the first into ioc->active_ref, which is acquired
and released using {get|put}_io_context_active() respectively.
This will be used to associate bio's with a given task. This patch
doesn't introduce any visible behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
It seems like the init of ioc->nr_tasks was removed in that patch,
so it starts out at 0 instead of 1.
Tejun, is the right thing here to add back the init, or should something else
be done?
The below patch removes the warning, but I haven't done any more extensive
testing on it.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Calling get_task_io_context() on a exiting task which isn't %current can
loop forever. This triggers at boot time on my dev machine.
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s ! [mountall.1603]
Fix this by making create_task_io_context() returns -EBUSY in this case
to break the loop.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cgroup/for-3.5 contains the following changes which blk-cgroup needs
to proceed with the on-going cleanup.
* Dynamic addition and removal of cftypes to make config/stat file
handling modular for policies.
* cgroup removal update to not wait for css references to drain to fix
blkcg removal hang caused by cfq caching cfqgs.
Pull in cgroup/for-3.5 into block/for-3.5/core. This causes the
following conflicts in block/blk-cgroup.c.
* 761b3ef50e "cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys argument from callbacks"
conflicts with blkiocg_pre_destroy() addition and blkiocg_attach()
removal. Resolved by removing @subsys from all subsys methods.
* 676f7c8f84 "cgroup: relocate cftype and cgroup_subsys definitions in
controllers" conflicts with ->pre_destroy() and ->attach() updates
and removal of modular config. Resolved by dropping forward
declarations of the methods and applying updates to the relocated
blkio_subsys.
* 4baf6e3325 "cgroup: convert all non-memcg controllers to the new
cftype interface" builds upon the previous item. Resolved by adding
->base_cftypes to the relocated blkio_subsys.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
After the previous patch to cfq, there's no ioc_get_changed() user
left. This patch yanks out ioc_{ioprio|cgroup|get}_changed() and all
related stuff.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently ioc->nr_tasks is used to decide two things - whether an ioc
is done issuing IOs and whether it's shared by multiple tasks. This
patch separate out the first into ioc->active_ref, which is acquired
and released using {get|put}_io_context_active() respectively.
This will be used to associate bio's with a given task. This patch
doesn't introduce any visible behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Make the following interface updates to prepare for future ioc related
changes.
* create_io_context() returning ioc only works for %current because it
doesn't increment ref on the ioc. Drop @task parameter from it and
always assume %current.
* Make create_io_context_slowpath() return 0 or -errno and rename it
to create_task_io_context().
* Make ioc_create_icq() take @ioc as parameter instead of assuming
that of %current. The caller, get_request(), is updated to create
ioc explicitly and then pass it into ioc_create_icq().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
While updating locking, b2efa05265 "block, cfq: unlink
cfq_io_context's immediately" moved elevator_exit_icq_fn() invocation
from exit_io_context() to the final ioc put. While this doesn't cause
catastrophic failure, it effectively removes task exit notification to
elevator and cause noticeable IO performance degradation with CFQ.
On task exit, CFQ used to immediately expire the slice if it was being
used by the exiting task as no more IO would be issued by the task;
however, after b2efa05265, the notification is lost and disk could sit
idle needlessly, leading to noticeable IO performance degradation for
certain workloads.
This patch renames ioc_exit_icq() to ioc_destroy_icq(), separates
elevator_exit_icq_fn() invocation into ioc_exit_icq() and invokes it
from exit_io_context(). ICQ_EXITED flag is added to avoid invoking
the callback more than once for the same icq.
Walking icq_list from ioc side and invoking elevator callback requires
reverse double locking. This may be better implemented using RCU;
unfortunately, using RCU isn't trivial. e.g. RCU protection would
need to cover request_queue and queue_lock switch on cleanup makes
grabbing queue_lock from RCU unsafe. Reverse double locking should
do, at least for now.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <CANejiEVzs=pUhQSTvUppkDcc2TNZyfohBRLygW5zFmXyk5A-xQ@mail.gmail.com>
Tested-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reverse double lock dancing in ioc_release_fn() can be simplified by
just using trylock on the queue_lock and back out from ioc lock on
trylock failure. Simplify it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
icq->changed was used for ICQ_*_CHANGED bits. Rename it to flags and
access it under ioc->lock instead of using atomic bitops.
ioc_get_changed() is added so that the changed part can be fetched and
cleared as before.
icq->flags will be used to carry other flags.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
11a3122f6c "block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()"
removed ioc_lock depth lockdep annoation along with locking
optimization; however, while recursing from put_io_context() is no
longer possible, ioc_release_fn() may still end up putting the last
reference of another ioc through elevator, which wlil grab ioc->lock
triggering spurious (as the ioc is always different one) A-A deadlock
warning.
As this can only happen one time from ioc_release_fn(), using non-zero
subclass from ioc_release_fn() is enough. Use subclass 1.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid
deferring ioc release to workqueue. It was also broken on UP because
trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced
preemption count.
While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most
pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit
loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the
optimization. Strip it out. If there turns out to be workloads which
are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion
thread can be applied later.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
6e736be7 "block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and fix
race on alloction" added WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context() which
triggers if !PF_EXITING. All tasks hitting exit_io_context() from
task exit should have PF_EXITING set but task struct tearing down
after fork failure calls into the function without PF_EXITING,
triggering the condition.
WARNING: at block/blk-ioc.c:234 exit_io_context+0x40/0x92()
Pid: 17090, comm: trinity Not tainted 3.2.0-rc6-next-20111222-sasha-dirty #77
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810b69a3>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8f/0xb2
[<ffffffff810b6a77>] warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x1a
[<ffffffff8181a7a2>] exit_io_context+0x40/0x92
[<ffffffff810b58c9>] copy_process+0x126f/0x1453
[<ffffffff810b5c1b>] do_fork+0x120/0x3e9
[<ffffffff8106242f>] sys_clone+0x26/0x28
[<ffffffff82425803>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
---[ end trace a2e4eb670b375238 ]---
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
While fixing io_context creation / task exit race condition,
6e736be7f2 "block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and
fix race on alloction" also prevented an exiting (%PF_EXITING) task
from creating its own io_context. This is incorrect as exit path may
issue IOs, e.g. from exit_files(), and if those IOs are the first ones
issued by the task, io_context needs to be created to process the IOs.
Combined with the existing problem of io_context / io_cq creation
failure having the possibility of stalling IO, this problem results in
deterministic full IO lockup with certain workloads.
Fix it by allowing io_context creation regardless of %PF_EXITING for
%current.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
With the ioc changed, ioc_cgroup_changed() can be used by modular
code. So ensure that it is exported.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now block layer knows everything necessary to create and associate
icq's with requests. Move ioc_create_icq() to blk-ioc.c and update
get_request() such that, if elevator_type->icq_size is set, requests
are automatically associated with their matching icq's before
elv_set_request(). io_context reference is also managed by block core
on request alloc/free.
* Only ioprio/cgroup changed handling remains from cfq_get_cic().
Collapsed into cfq_set_request().
* This removes queue kicking on icq allocation failure (for now). As
icq allocation failure is rare and the only effect of queue kicking
achieved was possibily accelerating queue processing, this change
shouldn't be noticeable.
There is a larger underlying problem. Unlike request allocation,
icq allocation is not guaranteed to succeed eventually after
retries. The number of icq is unbound and thus mempool can't be the
solution either. This effectively adds allocation dependency on
memory free path and thus possibility of deadlock.
This usually wouldn't happen because icq allocation is not a hot
path and, even when the condition triggers, it's highly unlikely
that none of the writeback workers already has icq.
However, this is still possible especially if elevator is being
switched under high memory pressure, so we better get it fixed.
Probably the only solution is just bypassing elevator and appending
to dispatch queue on any elevator allocation failure.
* Comment added to explain how icq's are managed and synchronized.
This completes cleanup of io_context interface.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
With kmem_cache managed by blk-ioc, io_cq exit/release can be moved to
blk-ioc too. The odd ->io_cq->exit/release() callbacks are replaced
with elevator_ops->elevator_exit_icq_fn() with unlinking from both ioc
and q, and freeing automatically handled by blk-ioc. The elevator
operation only need to perform exit operation specific to the elevator
- in cfq's case, exiting the cfqq's.
Also, clearing of io_cq's on q detach is moved to block core and
automatically performed on elevator switch and q release.
Because the q io_cq points to might be freed before RCU callback for
the io_cq runs, blk-ioc code should remember to which cache the io_cq
needs to be freed when the io_cq is released. New field
io_cq->__rcu_icq_cache is added for this purpose. As both the new
field and rcu_head are used only after io_cq is released and the
q/ioc_node fields aren't, they are put into unions.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now that all io_cq related data structures are in block core layer,
io_cq lookup can be moved from cfq-iosched.c to blk-ioc.c.
Lookup logic from cfq_cic_lookup() is moved to ioc_lookup_icq() with
parameter return type changes (cfqd -> request_queue, cfq_io_cq ->
io_cq) and cfq_cic_lookup() becomes thin wrapper around
cfq_cic_lookup().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently io_context and cfq logics are mixed without clear boundary.
Most of io_context is independent from cfq but cfq_io_context handling
logic is dispersed between generic ioc code and cfq.
cfq_io_context represents association between an io_context and a
request_queue, which is a concept useful outside of cfq, but it also
contains fields which are useful only to cfq.
This patch takes out generic part and put it into io_cq (io
context-queue) and the rest into cfq_io_cq (cic moniker remains the
same) which contains io_cq. The following changes are made together.
* cfq_ttime and cfq_io_cq now live in cfq-iosched.c.
* All related fields, functions and constants are renamed accordingly.
* ioc->ioc_data is now "struct io_cq *" instead of "void *" and
renamed to icq_hint.
This prepares for io_context API cleanup. Documentation is currently
sparse. It will be added later.
Changes in this patch are mechanical and don't cause functional
change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Paul E. McKenney
Grygorii Strashko
Jan Kara
Viresh Kumar
Sasha Levin
Olof Johansson
Eric Dumazet
Tejun Heo
Xiaotian Feng
Shaohua Li
Jens Axboe