> Il giorno 02 mar 2017, alle ore 17:13, Jens Axboe <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
> On 03/02/2017 09:07 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>>
>>> Il giorno 02 mar 2017, alle ore 16:13, Jens Axboe <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> On 03/02/2017 08:00 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On 03/02/2017 03:28 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Il giorno 15 feb 2017, alle ore 19:04, Jens Axboe <[email protected]> ha
>>>>>> scritto:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/15/2017 10:58 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>> On 02/15/2017 10:24 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Il giorno 10 feb 2017, alle ore 19:32, Omar Sandoval
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> From: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> None of the other blk-mq elevator hooks are called with this lock
>>>>>>>>> held.
>>>>>>>>> Additionally, it can lead to circular locking dependencies between
>>>>>>>>> queue_lock and the private scheduler lock.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Omar,
>>>>>>>> I'm sorry but it seems that a new potential deadlock has showed up.
>>>>>>>> See lockdep splat below.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've tried to think about different solutions than turning back to
>>>>>>>> deferring the body of exit_icq, but at no avail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Looks like a interaction between bfqd->lock and q->queue_lock. Since the
>>>>>>> core has no notion of you bfqd->lock, the naturally dependency here
>>>>>>> would be to nest bfqd->lock inside q->queue_lock. Is that possible for
>>>>>>> you?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Looking at the code a bit, maybe it'd just be simpler to get rid of
>>>>>>> holding the queue lock for that spot. For the mq scheduler, we really
>>>>>>> don't want places where we invoke with that held already. Does the below
>>>>>>> work for you?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would need to remove one more lockdep assert. And only test this for
>>>>>> the mq parts, we'd need to spread a bit of love on the classic
>>>>>> scheduling icq exit path for this to work on that side.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jens,
>>>>> here is the reply I anticipated in my previous email: after rebasing
>>>>> against master, I'm getting again the deadlock that this patch of
>>>>> yours solved (together with some changes in bfq-mq). I thought you added
>>>>> a
>>>>> sort of equivalent commit (now) to the mainline branch. Am I wrong?
>>>>
>>>> The patch I posted was never pulled to completion, it wasn't clear
>>>> to me if it fixed your issue or not. Maybe I missed a reply on
>>>> that?
>>>>
>>>> Let me take another stab at it today, I'll send you a version to test
>>>> on top of my for-linus branch.
>>>
>>> I took at look at my last posting, and I think it was only missing a
>>> lock grab in cfq, since we don't hold that for icq exit anymore. Paolo,
>>> it'd be great if you could verify that this works. Not for bfq-mq (we
>>> already know it does), but for CFQ.
>>
>> No luck, sorry :(
>>
>> It looks like to have just not to take q->queue_lock in cfq_exit_icq.
>
> I was worried about that. How about the below? We need to grab the lock
> at some point for legacy scheduling, but the ordering should be correct.
>
>
It seems to be: no more crashes or lockdep complains after several tests, boots
and shutdowns :)
Thanks,
Paolo
> diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c
> index b12f9c87b4c3..6fd633b5d567 100644
> --- a/block/blk-ioc.c
> +++ b/block/blk-ioc.c
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static void ioc_exit_icq(struct io_cq *icq)
> icq->flags |= ICQ_EXITED;
> }
>
> -/* Release an icq. Called with both ioc and q locked. */
> +/* Release an icq. Called with ioc locked. */
> static void ioc_destroy_icq(struct io_cq *icq)
> {
> struct io_context *ioc = icq->ioc;
> @@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ static void ioc_destroy_icq(struct io_cq *icq)
> struct elevator_type *et = q->elevator->type;
>
> lockdep_assert_held(&ioc->lock);
> - lockdep_assert_held(q->queue_lock);
>
> radix_tree_delete(&ioc->icq_tree, icq->q->id);
> hlist_del_init(&icq->ioc_node);
> @@ -222,24 +221,40 @@ void exit_io_context(struct task_struct *task)
> put_io_context_active(ioc);
> }
>
> +static void __ioc_clear_queue(struct list_head *icq_list)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + while (!list_empty(icq_list)) {
> + struct io_cq *icq = list_entry(icq_list->next,
> + struct io_cq, q_node);
> + struct io_context *ioc = icq->ioc;
> +
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->lock, flags);
> + ioc_destroy_icq(icq);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->lock, flags);
> + }
> +}
> +
> /**
> * ioc_clear_queue - break any ioc association with the specified queue
> * @q: request_queue being cleared
> *
> - * Walk @q->icq_list and exit all io_cq's. Must be called with @q locked.
> + * Walk @q->icq_list and exit all io_cq's.
> */
> void ioc_clear_queue(struct request_queue *q)
> {
> - lockdep_assert_held(q->queue_lock);
> + LIST_HEAD(icq_list);
>
> - while (!list_empty(&q->icq_list)) {
> - struct io_cq *icq = list_entry(q->icq_list.next,
> - struct io_cq, q_node);
> - struct io_context *ioc = icq->ioc;
> + spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> + list_splice_init(&q->icq_list, &icq_list);
>
> - spin_lock(&ioc->lock);
> - ioc_destroy_icq(icq);
> - spin_unlock(&ioc->lock);
> + if (q->mq_ops) {
> + spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> + __ioc_clear_queue(&icq_list);
> + } else {
> + __ioc_clear_queue(&icq_list);
> + spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> }
> }
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> index 002af836aa87..c44b321335f3 100644
> --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
> +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> @@ -815,9 +815,7 @@ static void blk_release_queue(struct kobject *kobj)
> blkcg_exit_queue(q);
>
> if (q->elevator) {
> - spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> ioc_clear_queue(q);
> - spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> elevator_exit(q->elevator);
> }
>
> diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
> index ac1c9f481a98..01139f549b5b 100644
> --- a/block/elevator.c
> +++ b/block/elevator.c
> @@ -983,9 +983,7 @@ static int elevator_switch(struct request_queue *q,
> struct elevator_type *new_e)
> if (old_registered)
> elv_unregister_queue(q);
>
> - spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> ioc_clear_queue(q);
> - spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> }
>
> /* allocate, init and register new elevator */
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
