130443d60b
Our test found a following deadlock in raid10:
1) Issue a normal write, and such write failed:
raid10_end_write_request
set_bit(R10BIO_WriteError, &r10_bio->state)
one_write_done
reschedule_retry
// later from md thread
raid10d
handle_write_completed
list_add(&r10_bio->retry_list, &conf->bio_end_io_list)
// later from md thread
raid10d
if (!test_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->sb_flags))
list_move(conf->bio_end_io_list.prev, &tmp)
r10_bio = list_first_entry(&tmp, struct r10bio, retry_list)
raid_end_bio_io(r10_bio)
Dependency chain 1: normal io is waiting for updating superblock
2) Trigger a recovery:
raid10_sync_request
raise_barrier
Dependency chain 2: sync thread is waiting for normal io
3) echo idle/frozen to sync_action:
action_store
mddev_lock
md_unregister_thread
kthread_stop
Dependency chain 3: drop 'reconfig_mutex' is waiting for sync thread
4) md thread can't update superblock:
raid10d
md_check_recovery
if (mddev_trylock(mddev))
md_update_sb
Dependency chain 4: update superblock is waiting for 'reconfig_mutex'
Hence cyclic dependency exist, in order to fix the problem, we must
break one of them. Dependency 1 and 2 can't be broken because they are
foundation design. Dependency 4 may be possible if it can be guaranteed
that no io can be inflight, however, this requires a new mechanism which
seems complex. Dependency 3 is a good choice, because idle/frozen only
requires sync thread to finish, which can be done asynchronously that is
already implemented, and 'reconfig_mutex' is not needed anymore.
This patch switch 'idle' and 'frozen' to wait sync thread to be done
asynchronously, and this patch also add a sequence counter to record how
many times sync thread is done, so that 'idle' won't keep waiting on new
started sync thread.
Noted that raid456 has similiar deadlock([1]), and it's verified[2] this
deadlock can be fixed by this patch as well.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/5ed54ffc-ce82-bf66-4eff-390cb23bc1ac@molgen.mpg.de/T/#t
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/e9067438-d713-f5f3-0d3d-9e6b0e9efa0e@huaweicloud.com/
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230529132037.2124527-5-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
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