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authorDavid Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>2019-12-17 11:00:24 -0500
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-12-20 16:51:54 -0700
commitdf034c93f15ee71df231ff9fe311d27ff08a2a52 (patch)
treee2fbdcea808a7a2f596ff91f788de7835a94d7b4 /lib
parent3b7995a98ad76da5597b488fa84aa5a56d43b608 (diff)
downloadlinux-df034c93f15ee71df231ff9fe311d27ff08a2a52.tar.gz
sbitmap: only queue kyber's wait callback if not already active
Under heavy loads where the kyber I/O scheduler hits the token limits for
its scheduling domains, kyber can become stuck.  When active requests
complete, kyber may not be woken up leaving the I/O requests in kyber
stuck.

This stuck state is due to a race condition with kyber and the sbitmap
functions it uses to run a callback when enough requests have completed.
The running of a sbt_wait callback can race with the attempt to insert the
sbt_wait.  Since sbitmap_del_wait_queue removes the sbt_wait from the list
first then sets the sbq field to NULL, kyber can see the item as not on a
list but the call to sbitmap_add_wait_queue will see sbq as non-NULL. This
results in the sbt_wait being inserted onto the wait list but ws_active
doesn't get incremented.  So the sbitmap queue does not know there is a
waiter on a wait list.

Since sbitmap doesn't think there is a waiter, kyber may never be
informed that there are domain tokens available and the I/O never advances.
With the sbt_wait on a wait list, kyber believes it has an active waiter
so cannot insert a new waiter when reaching the domain's full state.

This race can be fixed by only adding the sbt_wait to the queue if the
sbq field is NULL.  If sbq is not NULL, there is already an action active
which will trigger the re-running of kyber.  Let it run and add the
sbt_wait to the wait list if still needing to wait.

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Reported-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/sbitmap.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sbitmap.c b/lib/sbitmap.c
index 33feec8989f1..af88d1346dd7 100644
--- a/lib/sbitmap.c
+++ b/lib/sbitmap.c
@@ -650,8 +650,8 @@ void sbitmap_add_wait_queue(struct sbitmap_queue *sbq,
 	if (!sbq_wait->sbq) {
 		sbq_wait->sbq = sbq;
 		atomic_inc(&sbq->ws_active);
+		add_wait_queue(&ws->wait, &sbq_wait->wait);
 	}
-	add_wait_queue(&ws->wait, &sbq_wait->wait);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sbitmap_add_wait_queue);