blk-iolatency: fix IO hang due to negative inflight counter
authorLiu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:12:47 +0000 (08:12 +0800)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fri, 8 Feb 2019 19:42:26 +0000 (12:42 -0700)
commit8c772a9bfc7c07c76f4a58b58910452fbb20843b
treec6922c27cf1778c68517c559af83246d0b798e17
parent0803de78049fe1b0baf44bcddc727b036fb9139b
blk-iolatency: fix IO hang due to negative inflight counter

Our test reported the following stack, and vmcore showed that
->inflight counter is -1.

[ffffc9003fcc38d0] __schedule at ffffffff8173d95d
[ffffc9003fcc3958] schedule at ffffffff8173de26
[ffffc9003fcc3970] io_schedule at ffffffff810bb6b6
[ffffc9003fcc3988] blkcg_iolatency_throttle at ffffffff813911cb
[ffffc9003fcc3a20] rq_qos_throttle at ffffffff813847f3
[ffffc9003fcc3a48] blk_mq_make_request at ffffffff8137468a
[ffffc9003fcc3b08] generic_make_request at ffffffff81368b49
[ffffc9003fcc3b68] submit_bio at ffffffff81368d7d
[ffffc9003fcc3bb8] ext4_io_submit at ffffffffa031be00 [ext4]
[ffffc9003fcc3c00] ext4_writepages at ffffffffa03163de [ext4]
[ffffc9003fcc3d68] do_writepages at ffffffff811c49ae
[ffffc9003fcc3d78] __filemap_fdatawrite_range at ffffffff811b6188
[ffffc9003fcc3e30] filemap_write_and_wait_range at ffffffff811b6301
[ffffc9003fcc3e60] ext4_sync_file at ffffffffa030cee8 [ext4]
[ffffc9003fcc3ea8] vfs_fsync_range at ffffffff8128594b
[ffffc9003fcc3ee8] do_fsync at ffffffff81285abd
[ffffc9003fcc3f18] sys_fsync at ffffffff81285d50
[ffffc9003fcc3f28] do_syscall_64 at ffffffff81003c04
[ffffc9003fcc3f50] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_swapgs at ffffffff81742b8e

The ->inflight counter may be negative (-1) if

1) blk-iolatency was disabled when the IO was issued,

2) blk-iolatency was enabled before this IO reached its endio,

3) the ->inflight counter is decreased from 0 to -1 in endio()

In fact the hang can be easily reproduced by the below script,

H=/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/
P=/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test

echo "+io" > $H/cgroup.subtree_control
mkdir -p $P

echo $$ > $P/cgroup.procs

xfs_io -f -d -c "pwrite 0 4k" /dev/sdg

echo "`cat /sys/block/sdg/dev` target=1000000" > $P/io.latency

xfs_io -f -d -c "pwrite 0 4k" /dev/sdg

This fixes the problem by freezing the queue so that while
enabling/disabling iolatency, there is no inflight rq running.

Note that quiesce_queue is not needed as this only updating iolatency
configuration about which dispatching request_queue doesn't care.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block/blk-iolatency.c