md: refactor idle/frozen_sync_thread() to fix deadlock
Our test found a following deadlock in raid10: 1) Issue a normal write, and such write failed: raid10_end_write_request set_bit(R10BIO_WriteError, &r10_bio->state) one_write_done reschedule_retry // later from md thread raid10d handle_write_completed list_add(&r10_bio->retry_list, &conf->bio_end_io_list) // later from md thread raid10d if (!test_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->sb_flags)) list_move(conf->bio_end_io_list.prev, &tmp) r10_bio = list_first_entry(&tmp, struct r10bio, retry_list) raid_end_bio_io(r10_bio) Dependency chain 1: normal io is waiting for updating superblock 2) Trigger a recovery: raid10_sync_request raise_barrier Dependency chain 2: sync thread is waiting for normal io 3) echo idle/frozen to sync_action: action_store mddev_lock md_unregister_thread kthread_stop Dependency chain 3: drop 'reconfig_mutex' is waiting for sync thread 4) md thread can't update superblock: raid10d md_check_recovery if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) md_update_sb Dependency chain 4: update superblock is waiting for 'reconfig_mutex' Hence cyclic dependency exist, in order to fix the problem, we must break one of them. Dependency 1 and 2 can't be broken because they are foundation design. Dependency 4 may be possible if it can be guaranteed that no io can be inflight, however, this requires a new mechanism which seems complex. Dependency 3 is a good choice, because idle/frozen only requires sync thread to finish, which can be done asynchronously that is already implemented, and 'reconfig_mutex' is not needed anymore. This patch switch 'idle' and 'frozen' to wait sync thread to be done asynchronously, and this patch also add a sequence counter to record how many times sync thread is done, so that 'idle' won't keep waiting on new started sync thread. Noted that raid456 has similiar deadlock([1]), and it's verified[2] this deadlock can be fixed by this patch as well. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/5ed54ffc-ce82-bf66-4eff-390cb23bc1ac@molgen.mpg.de/T/#t [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/e9067438-d713-f5f3-0d3d-9e6b0e9efa0e@huaweicloud.com/ Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230529132037.2124527-5-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Please register or sign in to comment