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  9. May 05, 2020
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      iocost: protect iocg->abs_vdebt with iocg->waitq.lock · 0b80f986
      Tejun Heo authored 
      abs_vdebt is an atomic_64 which tracks how much over budget a given cgroup
is and controls the activation of use_delay mechanism. Once a cgroup goes
over budget from forced IOs, it has to pay it back with its future budget.
The progress guarantee on debt paying comes from the iocg being active -
active iocgs are processed by the periodic timer, which ensures that as time
passes the debts dissipate and the iocg returns to normal operation.

However, both iocg activation and vdebt handling are asynchronous and a
sequence like the following may happen.

1. The iocg is in the process of being deactivated by the periodic timer.

2. A bio enters ioc_rqos_throttle(), calls iocg_activate() which returns
   without anything because it still sees that the iocg is already active.

3. The iocg is deactivated.

4. The bio from #2 is over budget but needs to be forced. It increases
   abs_vdebt and goes over the threshold and enables use_delay.

5. IO control is ena...
      0b80f986
  11. May 01, 2020
  13. Apr 30, 2020
  15. Apr 27, 2020
    • Niklas Cassel's avatar
      nvme: prevent double free in nvme_alloc_ns() error handling · 132be623
      Niklas Cassel authored 
      When jumping to the out_put_disk label, we will call put_disk(), which will
trigger a call to disk_release(), which calls blk_put_queue().

Later in the cleanup code, we do blk_cleanup_queue(), which will also call
blk_put_queue().

Putting the queue twice is incorrect, and will generate a KASAN splat.

Set the disk->queue pointer to NULL, before calling put_disk(), so that the
first call to blk_put_queue() will not free the queue.

The second call to blk_put_queue() uses another pointer to the same queue,
so this call will still free the queue.

Fixes: 85136c01

 ("lightnvm: simplify geometry enumeration")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNiklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      132be623
  17. Apr 23, 2020
    • Damien Le Moal's avatar
      null_blk: Cleanup zoned device initialization · d205bde7
      Damien Le Moal authored 
      

Move all zoned mode related code from null_blk_main.c to
null_blk_zoned.c, avoiding an ugly #ifdef in the process.
Rename null_zone_init() into null_init_zoned_dev(), null_zone_exit()
into null_free_zoned_dev() and add the new function
null_register_zoned_dev() to finalize the zoned dev setup before
add_disk().

Signed-off-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      d205bde7
    • Damien Le Moal's avatar
      null_blk: Fix zoned command handling · 9dd44c7e
      Damien Le Moal authored 
      

For write operations issued to a null_blk device with zoned mode
enabled, the state and write pointer position of the zone targeted by
the command should be checked before badblocks and memory backing
are handled as the write may be first failed due to, for instance, a
sector position not aligned with the zone write pointer. This order of
checking for errors reflects more accuratly the behavior of physical
zoned devices.

Furthermore, the write pointer position of the target zone should be
incremented only and only if no errors are reported by badblocks and
memory backing handling.

To fix this, introduce the small helper function null_process_cmd()
which execute null_handle_badblocks() and null_handle_memory_backed()
and use this function in null_zone_write() to correctly handle write
requests to zoned null devices depending on the type and state of the
write target zone. Also call this function in null_handle_zoned() to
process read requests to zoned null devices.

null_process_cmd() is called directly from null_handle_cmd() for
regular null devices, resulting in no functional change for these type
of devices. To have symmetric names, the function null_handle_zoned()
is renamed to null_process_zoned_cmd().

Signed-off-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      9dd44c7e
  19. Apr 21, 2020
  21. Apr 20, 2020
    • Douglas Anderson's avatar
      bdev: Reduce time holding bd_mutex in sync in blkdev_close() · b849dd84
      Douglas Anderson authored 
      

While trying to "dd" to the block device for a USB stick, I
encountered a hung task warning (blocked for > 120 seconds).  I
managed to come up with an easy way to reproduce this on my system
(where /dev/sdb is the block device for my USB stick) with:

  while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; done

With my reproduction here are the relevant bits from the hung task
detector:

 INFO: task udevd:294 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
 ...
 udevd           D    0   294      1 0x00400008
 Call trace:
  ...
  mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x50
  __blkdev_get+0x7c/0x3d4
  blkdev_get+0x118/0x138
  blkdev_open+0x94/0xa8
  do_dentry_open+0x268/0x3a0
  vfs_open+0x34/0x40
  path_openat+0x39c/0xdf4
  do_filp_open+0x90/0x10c
  do_sys_open+0x150/0x3c8
  ...

 ...
 Showing all locks held in the system:
 ...
 1 lock held by dd/2798:
  #0: ffffff814ac1a3b8 (&bdev->bd_mutex){+.+.}, at: __blkdev_put+0x50/0x204
 ...
 dd              D    0  2798   2764 0x00400208
 Call trace:
  ...
  schedule+0x8c/0xbc
  io_schedule+0x1c/0x40
  wait_on_page_bit_common+0x238/0x338
  __lock_page+0x5c/0x68
  write_cache_pages+0x194/0x500
  generic_writepages+0x64/0xa4
  blkdev_writepages+0x24/0x30
  do_writepages+0x48/0xa8
  __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xac/0xd8
  filemap_write_and_wait+0x30/0x84
  __blkdev_put+0x88/0x204
  blkdev_put+0xc4/0xe4
  blkdev_close+0x28/0x38
  __fput+0xe0/0x238
  ____fput+0x1c/0x28
  task_work_run+0xb0/0xe4
  do_notify_resume+0xfc0/0x14bc
  work_pending+0x8/0x14

The problem appears related to the fact that my USB disk is terribly
slow and that I have a lot of RAM in my system to cache things.
Specifically my writes seem to be happening at ~15 MB/s and I've got
~4 GB of RAM in my system that can be used for buffering.  To write 4
GB of buffer to disk thus takes ~4000 MB / ~15 MB/s = ~267 seconds.

The 267 second number is a problem because in __blkdev_put() we call
sync_blockdev() while holding the bd_mutex.  Any other callers who
want the bd_mutex will be blocked for the whole time.

The problem is made worse because I believe blkdev_put() specifically
tells other tasks (namely udev) to go try to access the device at right
around the same time we're going to hold the mutex for a long time.

Putting some traces around this (after disabling the hung task detector),
I could confirm:
 dd:    437.608600: __blkdev_put() right before sync_blockdev() for sdb
 udevd: 437.623901: blkdev_open() right before blkdev_get() for sdb
 dd:    661.468451: __blkdev_put() right after sync_blockdev() for sdb
 udevd: 663.820426: blkdev_open() right after blkdev_get() for sdb

A simple fix for this is to realize that sync_blockdev() works fine if
you're not holding the mutex.  Also, it's not the end of the world if
you sync a little early (though it can have performance impacts).
Thus we can make a guess that we're going to need to do the sync and
then do it without holding the mutex.  We still do one last sync with
the mutex but it should be much, much faster.

With this, my hung task warnings for my test case are gone.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b849dd84
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