io-wq: remove GFP_ATOMIC allocation off schedule out path
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:37:25 +0000 (08:37 -0600)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:07:56 +0000 (13:07 -0600)
commitd3e9f732c415cf22faa33d6f195e291ad82dc92e
tree916644668cf567d846936a756b3ea915208f26e7
parente22ce8eb631bdc47a4a4ea7ecf4e4ba499db4f93
io-wq: remove GFP_ATOMIC allocation off schedule out path

Daniel reports that the v5.14-rc4-rt4 kernel throws a BUG when running
stress-ng:

| [   90.202543] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:35
| [   90.202549] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 2047, name: iou-wrk-2041
| [   90.202555] CPU: 5 PID: 2047 Comm: iou-wrk-2041 Tainted: G        W         5.14.0-rc4-rt4+ #89
| [   90.202559] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
| [   90.202561] Call Trace:
| [   90.202577]  dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
| [   90.202584]  ___might_sleep.cold+0x87/0x94
| [   90.202588]  rt_spin_lock+0x19/0x70
| [   90.202593]  ___slab_alloc+0xcb/0x7d0
| [   90.202598]  ? newidle_balance.constprop.0+0xf5/0x3b0
| [   90.202603]  ? dequeue_entity+0xc3/0x290
| [   90.202605]  ? io_wqe_dec_running.isra.0+0x98/0xe0
| [   90.202610]  ? pick_next_task_fair+0xb9/0x330
| [   90.202612]  ? __schedule+0x670/0x1410
| [   90.202615]  ? io_wqe_dec_running.isra.0+0x98/0xe0
| [   90.202618]  kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x79/0x1f0
| [   90.202621]  io_wqe_dec_running.isra.0+0x98/0xe0
| [   90.202625]  io_wq_worker_sleeping+0x37/0x50
| [   90.202628]  schedule+0x30/0xd0
| [   90.202630]  schedule_timeout+0x8f/0x1a0
| [   90.202634]  ? __bpf_trace_tick_stop+0x10/0x10
| [   90.202637]  io_wqe_worker+0xfd/0x320
| [   90.202641]  ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0xd3/0x290
| [   90.202644]  ? io_worker_handle_work+0x670/0x670
| [   90.202646]  ? io_worker_handle_work+0x670/0x670
| [   90.202649]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

which is due to the RT kernel not liking a GFP_ATOMIC allocation inside
a raw spinlock. Besides that not working on RT, doing any kind of
allocation from inside schedule() is kind of nasty and should be avoided
if at all possible.

This particular path happens when an io-wq worker goes to sleep, and we
need a new worker to handle pending work. We currently allocate a small
data item to hold the information we need to create a new worker, but we
can instead include this data in the io_worker struct itself and just
protect it with a single bit lock. We only really need one per worker
anyway, as we will have run pending work between to sleep cycles.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210804082418.fbibprcwtzyt5qax@beryllium.lan/
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
fs/io-wq.c