This has been reported and discussed for a long time, and this hang occurs in
both 3.15 and 3.16.
Btrfs now migrates to use kernel workqueue, but it introduces this hang problem.
Btrfs has a kind of work queued as an ordered way, which means that its
ordered_func() must be processed in the way of FIFO, so it usually looks like --
normal_work_helper(arg)
work = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work);
work->func() <---- (we name it work X)
for ordered_work in wq->ordered_list
ordered_work->ordered_func()
ordered_work->ordered_free()
The hang is a rare case, first when we find free space, we get an uncached block
group, then we go to read its free space cache inode for free space information,
so it will
file a readahead request
btrfs_readpages()
for page that is not in page cache
__do_readpage()
submit_extent_page()
btrfs_submit_bio_hook()
btrfs_bio_wq_end_io()
submit_bio()
end_workqueue_bio() <--(ret by the 1st endio)
queue a work(named work Y) for the 2nd
also the real endio()
So the hang occurs when work Y's work_struct and work X's work_struct happens
to share the same address.
A bit more explanation,
A,B,C -- struct btrfs_work
arg -- struct work_struct
kthread:
worker_thread()
pick up a work_struct from @worklist
process_one_work(arg)
worker->current_work = arg; <-- arg is A->normal_work
worker->current_func(arg)
normal_work_helper(arg)
A = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work);
A->func()
A->ordered_func()
A->ordered_free() <-- A gets freed
B->ordered_func()
submit_compressed_extents()
find_free_extent()
load_free_space_inode()
... <-- (the above readhead stack)
end_workqueue_bio()
btrfs_queue_work(work C)
B->ordered_free()
As if work A has a high priority in wq->ordered_list and there are more ordered
works queued after it, such as B->ordered_func(), its memory could have been
freed before normal_work_helper() returns, which means that kernel workqueue
code worker_thread() still has worker->current_work pointer to be work
A->normal_work's, ie. arg's address.
Meanwhile, work C is allocated after work A is freed, work C->normal_work
and work A->normal_work are likely to share the same address(I confirmed this
with ftrace output, so I'm not just guessing, it's rare though).
When another kthread picks up work C->normal_work to process, and finds our
kthread is processing it(see find_worker_executing_work()), it'll think
work C as a collision and skip then, which ends up nobody processing work C.
So the situation is that our kthread is waiting forever on work C.
Besides, there're other cases that can lead to deadlock, but the real problem
is that all btrfs workqueue shares one work->func, -- normal_work_helper,
so this makes each workqueue to have its own helper function, but only a
wraper pf normal_work_helper.
With this patch, I no long hit the above hang.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Reproducer:
mount /dev/ubda /mnt
mount -oremount,thread_pool=42 /mnt
Gives a crash:
? btrfs_workqueue_set_max+0x0/0x70
btrfs_resize_thread_pool+0xe3/0xf0
? sync_filesystem+0x0/0xc0
? btrfs_resize_thread_pool+0x0/0xf0
btrfs_remount+0x1d2/0x570
? kern_path+0x0/0x80
do_remount_sb+0xd9/0x1c0
do_mount+0x26a/0xbf0
? kfree+0x0/0x1b0
SyS_mount+0xc4/0x110
It's a call
btrfs_workqueue_set_max(fs_info->scrub_wr_completion_workers, new_pool_size);
with
fs_info->scrub_wr_completion_workers = NULL;
as scrub wqs get created only on user's demand.
Patch skips not-created-yet workqueues.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
CC: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
CC: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
CC: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
CC: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Since most of the btrfs_workqueue is printed as pointer address,
for easier analysis, add trace for btrfs_workqueue alloc/destroy.
So it is possible to determine the workqueue that a given work belongs
to(by comparing the wq pointer address with alloc trace event).
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Add ftrace for btrfs_workqueue for further workqueue tunning.
This patch needs to applied after the workqueue replace patchset.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
The new btrfs_workqueue still use open-coded function defition,
this patch will change them into btrfs_func_t type which is much the
same as kernel workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Since the "_struct" suffix is mainly used for distinguish the differnt
btrfs_work between the original and the newly created one,
there is no need using the suffix since all btrfs_workers are changed
into btrfs_workqueue.
Also this patch fixed some codes whose code style is changed due to the
too long "_struct" suffix.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Since all the btrfs_worker is replaced with the newly created
btrfs_workqueue, the old codes can be easily remove.
Signed-off-by: Quwenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
The original btrfs_workers has thresholding functions to dynamically
create or destroy kthreads.
Though there is no such function in kernel workqueue because the worker
is not created manually, we can still use the workqueue_set_max_active
to simulated the behavior, mainly to achieve a better HDD performance by
setting a high threshold on submit_workers.
(Sadly, no resource can be saved)
So in this patch, extra workqueue pending counters are introduced to
dynamically change the max active of each btrfs_workqueue_struct, hoping
to restore the behavior of the original thresholding function.
Also, workqueue_set_max_active use a mutex to protect workqueue_struct,
which is not meant to be called too frequently, so a new interval
mechanism is applied, that will only call workqueue_set_max_active after
a count of work is queued. Hoping to balance both the random and
sequence performance on HDD.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Add high priority function to btrfs_workqueue.
This is implemented by embedding a btrfs_workqueue into a
btrfs_workqueue and use some helper functions to differ the normal
priority wq and high priority wq.
So the high priority wq is completely independent from the normal
workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Use kernel workqueue to implement a new btrfs_workqueue_struct, which
has the ordering execution feature like the btrfs_worker.
The func is executed in a concurrency way, and the
ordred_func/ordered_free is executed in the sequence them are queued
after the corresponding func is done.
The new btrfs_workqueue works much like the original one, one workqueue
for normal work and a list for ordered work.
When a work is queued, ordered work will be added to the list and helper
function will be queued into the workqueue.
The helper function will execute a normal work and then check and execute as many
ordered work as possible in the sequence they were queued.
At this patch, high priority work queue or thresholding is not added yet.
The high priority feature and thresholding will be added in the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
In case we do not refill, we can overwrite cur pointer from prio_head
by one from not prioritized head, what looks as something that was
not intended.
This change make we always take works from prio_head first until it's
not empty.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
__btrfs_start_workers returns 0 in case it raced with
btrfs_stop_workers and lost the race. This is wrong because worker in
this case is not allowed to start and is in fact destroyed. Return
-EINVAL instead.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
The current implementation of worker threads in Btrfs has races in
worker stopping code, which cause all kinds of panics and lockups when
running btrfs/011 xfstest in a loop. The problem is that
btrfs_stop_workers is unsynchronized with respect to check_idle_worker,
check_busy_worker and __btrfs_start_workers.
E.g., check_idle_worker race flow:
btrfs_stop_workers(): check_idle_worker(aworker):
- grabs the lock
- splices the idle list into the
working list
- removes the first worker from the
working list
- releases the lock to wait for
its kthread's completion
- grabs the lock
- if aworker is on the working list,
moves aworker from the working list
to the idle list
- releases the lock
- grabs the lock
- puts the worker
- removes the second worker from the
working list
......
btrfs_stop_workers returns, aworker is on the idle list
FS is umounted, memory is freed
......
aworker is waken up, fireworks ensue
With this applied, I wasn't able to trigger the problem in 48 hours,
whereas previously I could reliably reproduce at least one of these
races within an hour.
Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Each ordered operation has a free callback, and this was called with the
worker spinlock held. Josef made the free callback also call iput,
which we can't do with the spinlock.
This drops the spinlock for the free operation and grabs it again before
moving through the rest of the list. We'll circle back around to this
and find a cleaner way that doesn't bounce the lock around so much.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
cc: stable@kernel.org
* pm-sleep: (51 commits)
PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
PM / Sleep: Recommend [un]lock_system_sleep() over using pm_mutex directly
PM / Sleep: Replace mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex) with [un]lock_system_sleep()
PM / Sleep: Make [un]lock_system_sleep() generic
PM / Sleep: Use the freezer_count() functions in [un]lock_system_sleep() APIs
PM / Freezer: Remove the "userspace only" constraint from freezer[_do_not]_count()
PM / Hibernate: Replace unintuitive 'if' condition in kernel/power/user.c with 'else'
Freezer / sunrpc / NFS: don't allow TASK_KILLABLE sleeps to block the freezer
PM / Sleep: Unify diagnostic messages from device suspend/resume
ACPI / PM: Do not save/restore NVS on Asus K54C/K54HR
PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation test modes
PM / Hibernate: Thaw processes in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl test path
...
Conflicts:
kernel/kmod.c
Dan Carpenter noticed that we were doing a double unlock on the worker
lock, and sometimes picking a worker thread without the lock held.
This fixes both errors.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
* master: (848 commits)
SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()
binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak
mm/vmalloc.c: remove static declaration of va from __get_vm_area_node
ipmi_watchdog: restore settings when BMC reset
oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness
memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails
nilfs2: potential integer overflow in nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments()
nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl
cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask
evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation
evm: key must be set once during initialization
mmc: vub300: fix type of firmware_rom_wait_states module parameter
Revert "mmc: enable runtime PM by default"
mmc: sdhci: remove "state" argument from sdhci_suspend_host
x86, dumpstack: Fix code bytes breakage due to missing KERN_CONT
IB/qib: Correct sense on freectxts increment and decrement
RDMA/cma: Verify private data length
cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel"
...
Conflicts:
kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
Al pointed out we have some random problems with the way we account for
num_workers_starting in the async thread stuff. First of all we need to make
sure to decrement num_workers_starting if we fail to start the worker, so make
__btrfs_start_workers do this. Also fix __btrfs_start_workers so that it
doesn't call btrfs_stop_workers(), there is no point in stopping everybody if we
failed to create a worker. Also check_pending_worker_creates needs to call
__btrfs_start_work in it's work function since it already increments
num_workers_starting.
People only start one worker at a time, so get rid of the num_workers argument
everywhere, and make btrfs_queue_worker a void since it will always succeed.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
If we have a constant stream of end_io completions or crc work,
we can hit softlockup messages from the async helper threads. This
adds a cond_resched() into the loop to avoid them.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
There is no reason to export two functions for entering the
refrigerator. Calling refrigerator() instead of try_to_freeze()
doesn't save anything noticeable or removes any race condition.
* Rename refrigerator() to __refrigerator() and make it return bool
indicating whether it scheduled out for freezing.
* Update try_to_freeze() to return bool and relay the return value of
__refrigerator() if freezing().
* Convert all refrigerator() users to try_to_freeze().
* Update documentation accordingly.
* While at it, add might_sleep() to try_to_freeze().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Yan Zheng noticed two places we were doing a lot of work
without task->state set to TASK_RUNNING. This sets the state
properly after we get ready to sleep but decide not to.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Liu Bo
Sergei Trofimovich
Qu Wenruo
Filipe Manana
Stanislaw Gruszka
Ilya Dryomov
Dulshani Gunawardhana
Chris Mason
Jeff Mahoney
Rafael J. Wysocki
Chris Mason
Josef Bacik
Tejun Heo