Just let the one caller that wants optional WQ_HIGHPRI handling allocate
a separate btrfs_workqueue for that. This allows to rename struct
__btrfs_workqueue to btrfs_workqueue, remove a pointer indirection and
separate allocation for all btrfs_workqueue users and generally simplify
the code.
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
During unmount we can have a job from the delayed inode items work queue
still running, that can lead to at least two bad things:
1) A crash, because the worker can try to create a transaction just
after the fs roots were freed;
2) A transaction leak, because the worker can create a transaction
before the fs roots are freed and just after we committed the last
transaction and after we stopped the transaction kthread.
A stack trace example of the crash:
[79011.691214] kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:982!
[79011.692056] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI
[79011.693180] CPU: 3 PID: 1394 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Tainted: G W 5.6.0-rc2-btrfs-next-54 #2
(...)
[79011.696789] Workqueue: btrfs-delayed-meta btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
[79011.697904] RIP: 0010:radix_tree_tag_set+0xe7/0x170
(...)
[79011.702014] RSP: 0018:ffffb3c84a317ca0 EFLAGS: 00010293
[79011.702949] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[79011.704202] RDX: ffffb3c84a317cb0 RSI: ffffb3c84a317ca8 RDI: ffff8db3931340a0
[79011.705463] RBP: 0000000000000005 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: ffffffff974629d0
[79011.706756] R10: ffffb3c84a317bc0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8db393134000
[79011.708010] R13: ffff8db3931340a0 R14: ffff8db393134068 R15: 0000000000000001
[79011.709270] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8db3b6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[79011.710699] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[79011.711710] CR2: 00007f22c2a0a000 CR3: 0000000232ad4005 CR4: 00000000003606e0
[79011.712958] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[79011.714205] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[79011.715448] Call Trace:
[79011.715925] record_root_in_trans+0x72/0xf0 [btrfs]
[79011.716819] btrfs_record_root_in_trans+0x4b/0x70 [btrfs]
[79011.717925] start_transaction+0xdd/0x5c0 [btrfs]
[79011.718829] btrfs_async_run_delayed_root+0x17e/0x2b0 [btrfs]
[79011.719915] btrfs_work_helper+0xaa/0x720 [btrfs]
[79011.720773] process_one_work+0x26d/0x6a0
[79011.721497] worker_thread+0x4f/0x3e0
[79011.722153] ? process_one_work+0x6a0/0x6a0
[79011.722901] kthread+0x103/0x140
[79011.723481] ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
[79011.724379] ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
(...)
The following diagram shows a sequence of steps that lead to the crash
during ummount of the filesystem:
CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3
btrfs_punch_hole()
btrfs_btree_balance_dirty()
btrfs_balance_delayed_items()
--> sees
fs_info->delayed_root->items
with value 200, which is greater
than
BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND (128)
and smaller than
BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK (512)
btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node()
--> queues a job for
fs_info->delayed_workers to run
btrfs_async_run_delayed_root()
btrfs_async_run_delayed_root()
--> job queued by CPU 1
--> starts picking and running
delayed nodes from the
prepare_list list
close_ctree()
btrfs_delete_unused_bgs()
btrfs_commit_super()
btrfs_join_transaction()
--> gets transaction N
btrfs_commit_transaction(N)
--> set transaction state
to TRANTS_STATE_COMMIT_START
btrfs_first_prepared_delayed_node()
--> picks delayed node X through
the prepared_list list
btrfs_run_delayed_items()
btrfs_first_delayed_node()
--> also picks delayed node X
but through the node_list
list
__btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_items()
--> runs all delayed items from
this node and drops the
node's item count to 0
through call to
btrfs_release_delayed_inode()
--> finishes running any remaining
delayed nodes
--> finishes transaction commit
--> stops cleaner and transaction threads
btrfs_free_fs_roots()
--> frees all roots and removes them
from the radix tree
fs_info->fs_roots_radix
btrfs_join_transaction()
start_transaction()
btrfs_record_root_in_trans()
record_root_in_trans()
radix_tree_tag_set()
--> crashes because
the root is not in
the radix tree
anymore
If the worker is able to call btrfs_join_transaction() before the unmount
task frees the fs roots, we end up leaking a transaction and all its
resources, since after the call to btrfs_commit_super() and stopping the
transaction kthread, we don't expect to have any transaction open anymore.
When this situation happens the worker has a delayed node that has no
more items to run, since the task calling btrfs_run_delayed_items(),
which is doing a transaction commit, picks the same node and runs all
its items first.
We can not wait for the worker to complete when running delayed items
through btrfs_run_delayed_items(), because we call that function in
several phases of a transaction commit, and that could cause a deadlock
because the worker calls btrfs_join_transaction() and the task doing the
transaction commit may have already set the transaction state to
TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_DOING.
Also it's not possible to get into a situation where only some of the
items of a delayed node are added to the fs/subvolume tree in the current
transaction and the remaining ones in the next transaction, because when
running the items of a delayed inode we lock its mutex, effectively
waiting for the worker if the worker is running the items of the delayed
node already.
Since this can only cause issues when unmounting a filesystem, fix it in
a simple way by waiting for any jobs on the delayed workers queue before
calling btrfs_commit_supper() at close_ctree(). This works because at this
point no one can call btrfs_btree_balance_dirty() or
btrfs_balance_delayed_items(), and if we end up waiting for any worker to
complete, btrfs_commit_super() will commit the transaction created by the
worker.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The attribute is more relaxed than const and the functions could
dereference pointers, as long as the observable state is not changed. We
do have such functions, based on -Wsuggest-attribute=pure .
The visible effects of this patch are negligible, there are differences
in the assembly but hard to summarize.
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Commit 9e0af23764 ("Btrfs: fix task hang under heavy compressed
write") worked around the issue that a recycled work item could get a
false dependency on the original work item due to how the workqueue code
guarantees non-reentrancy. It did so by giving different work functions
to different types of work.
However, the fixes in the previous few patches are more complete, as
they prevent a work item from being recycled at all (except for a tiny
window that the kernel workqueue code handles for us). This obsoletes
the previous fix, so we don't need the unique helpers for correctness.
The only other reason to keep them would be so they show up in stack
traces, but they always seem to be optimized to a tail call, so they
don't show up anyways. So, let's just get rid of the extra indirection.
While we're here, rename normal_work_helper() to the more informative
btrfs_work_helper().
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Remove GPL boilerplate text (long, short, one-line) and keep the rest,
ie. personal, company or original source copyright statements. Add the
SPDX header.
Unify the include protection macros to match the file names.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Tracepoint arguments are all read-only. If we mark the arguments
as const, we're able to keep or convert those arguments to const
where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Problem statement: unprivileged user who has read-write access to more than
one btrfs subvolume may easily consume all kernel memory (eventually
triggering oom-killer).
Reproducer (./mkrmdir below essentially loops over mkdir/rmdir):
[root@kteam1 ~]# cat prep.sh
DEV=/dev/sdb
mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV
mount $DEV /mnt
for i in `seq 1 16`
do
mkdir /mnt/$i
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/SV_$i
ID=`btrfs subvolume list /mnt |grep "SV_$i$" |cut -d ' ' -f 2`
mount -t btrfs -o subvolid=$ID $DEV /mnt/$i
chmod a+rwx /mnt/$i
done
[root@kteam1 ~]# sh prep.sh
[maxim@kteam1 ~]$ for i in `seq 1 16`; do ./mkrmdir /mnt/$i 2000 2000 & done
[root@kteam1 ~]# for i in `seq 1 4`; do grep "kmalloc-128" /proc/slabinfo | grep -v dma; sleep 60; done
kmalloc-128 10144 10144 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 317 317 0
kmalloc-128 9992352 9992352 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 312261 312261 0
kmalloc-128 24226752 24226752 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 757086 757086 0
kmalloc-128 42754240 42754240 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1336070 1336070 0
The huge numbers above come from insane number of async_work-s allocated
and queued by btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node.
The problem is caused by btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node() queuing more and more
works if the number of delayed items is above BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND. The
worker func (btrfs_async_run_delayed_root) processes at least
BTRFS_DELAYED_BATCH items (if they are present in the list). So, the machinery
works as expected while the list is almost empty. As soon as it is getting
bigger, worker func starts to process more than one item at a time, it takes
longer, and the chances to have async_works queued more than needed is getting
higher.
The problem above is worsened by another flaw of delayed-inode implementation:
if async_work was queued in a throttling branch (number of items >=
BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK), corresponding worker func won't quit until
the number of items < BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND / 2. So, it is possible that
the func occupies CPU infinitely (up to 30sec in my experiments): while the
func is trying to drain the list, the user activity may add more and more
items to the list.
The patch fixes both problems in straightforward way: refuse queuing too
many works in btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node and bail out of worker func if
at least BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK items are processed.
Changed in v2: remove support of thresh == NO_THRESHOLD.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
In order to provide an fsid for trace events, we'll need a btrfs_fs_info
pointer. The most lightweight way to do that for btrfs_work structures
is to associate it with the __btrfs_workqueue structure. Each queued
btrfs_work structure has a workqueue associated with it, so that's
a natural fit. It's a privately defined structures, so we add accessors
to retrieve the fs_info pointer.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
At initializing time, for threshold-able workqueue, it's max_active
of kernel workqueue should be 1 and grow if it hits threshold.
But due to the bad naming, there is both 'max_active' for kernel
workqueue and btrfs workqueue.
So wrong value is given at workqueue initialization.
This patch fixes it, and to avoid further misunderstanding, change the
member name of btrfs_workqueue to 'current_active' and 'limit_active'.
Also corresponding comment is added for readability.
Reported-by: Alex Lyakas <alex.btrfs@zadarastorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
lockdep report following warning in test:
[25176.843958] =================================
[25176.844519] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
[25176.845047] 4.1.0-rc3 #22 Tainted: G W
[25176.845591] ---------------------------------
[25176.846153] inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.
[25176.846713] fsstress/26661 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
[25176.847246] (&wr_ctx->wr_lock){+.?...}, at: [<ffffffffa04cdc6d>] scrub_free_ctx+0x2d/0xf0 [btrfs]
[25176.847838] {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
[25176.848396] [<ffffffff810bf460>] __lock_acquire+0x6a0/0xe10
[25176.848955] [<ffffffff810bfd1e>] lock_acquire+0xce/0x2c0
[25176.849491] [<ffffffff816489af>] mutex_lock_nested+0x7f/0x410
[25176.850029] [<ffffffffa04d04ff>] scrub_stripe+0x4df/0x1080 [btrfs]
[25176.850575] [<ffffffffa04d11b1>] scrub_chunk.isra.19+0x111/0x130 [btrfs]
[25176.851110] [<ffffffffa04d144c>] scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x27c/0x510 [btrfs]
[25176.851660] [<ffffffffa04d3b87>] btrfs_scrub_dev+0x1c7/0x6c0 [btrfs]
[25176.852189] [<ffffffffa04e918e>] btrfs_dev_replace_start+0x36e/0x450 [btrfs]
[25176.852771] [<ffffffffa04a98e0>] btrfs_ioctl+0x1e10/0x2d20 [btrfs]
[25176.853315] [<ffffffff8121c5b8>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x318/0x570
[25176.853868] [<ffffffff8121c851>] SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x80
[25176.854406] [<ffffffff8164da17>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6f
[25176.854935] irq event stamp: 51506
[25176.855511] hardirqs last enabled at (51506): [<ffffffff810d4ce5>] vprintk_emit+0x225/0x5e0
[25176.856059] hardirqs last disabled at (51505): [<ffffffff810d4b77>] vprintk_emit+0xb7/0x5e0
[25176.856642] softirqs last enabled at (50886): [<ffffffff81067a23>] __do_softirq+0x363/0x640
[25176.857184] softirqs last disabled at (50949): [<ffffffff8106804d>] irq_exit+0x10d/0x120
[25176.857746]
other info that might help us debug this:
[25176.858845] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[25176.859981] CPU0
[25176.860537] ----
[25176.861059] lock(&wr_ctx->wr_lock);
[25176.861705] <Interrupt>
[25176.862272] lock(&wr_ctx->wr_lock);
[25176.862881]
*** DEADLOCK ***
Reason:
Above warning is caused by:
Interrupt
-> bio_endio()
-> ...
-> scrub_put_ctx()
-> scrub_free_ctx() *1
-> ...
-> mutex_lock(&wr_ctx->wr_lock);
scrub_put_ctx() is allowed to be called in end_bio interrupt, but
in code design, it will never call scrub_free_ctx(sctx) in interrupe
context(above *1), because btrfs_scrub_dev() get one additional
reference of sctx->refs, which makes scrub_free_ctx() only called
withine btrfs_scrub_dev().
Now the code runs out of our wish, because free sequence in
scrub_pending_bio_dec() have a gap.
Current code:
-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------
scrub_pending_bio_dec() | btrfs_scrub_dev
-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------
atomic_dec(&sctx->bios_in_flight); |
wake_up(&sctx->list_wait); |
| scrub_put_ctx()
| -> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs)
scrub_put_ctx(sctx); |
-> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs)|
-> scrub_free_ctx() |
-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------
We expected:
-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------
scrub_pending_bio_dec() | btrfs_scrub_dev
-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------
atomic_dec(&sctx->bios_in_flight); |
wake_up(&sctx->list_wait); |
scrub_put_ctx(sctx); |
-> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs)|
| scrub_put_ctx()
| -> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs)
| -> scrub_free_ctx()
-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------
Fix:
Move scrub_pending_bio_dec() to a workqueue, to avoid this function run
in interrupt context.
Tested by check tracelog in debug.
Changelog v1->v2:
Use workqueue instead of adjust function call sequence in v1,
because v1 will introduce a bug pointed out by:
Filipe David Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
This patch implement data repair function when direct read fails.
The detail of the implementation is:
- When we find the data is not right, we try to read the data from the other
mirror.
- When the io on the mirror ends, we will insert the endio work into the
dedicated btrfs workqueue, not common read endio workqueue, because the
original endio work is still blocked in the btrfs endio workqueue, if we
insert the endio work of the io on the mirror into that workqueue, deadlock
would happen.
- After we get right data, we write it back to the corrupted mirror.
- And if the data on the new mirror is still corrupted, we will try next
mirror until we read right data or all the mirrors are traversed.
- After the above work, we set the uptodate flag according to the result.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
This has been reported and discussed for a long time, and this hang occurs in
both 3.15 and 3.16.
Btrfs now migrates to use kernel workqueue, but it introduces this hang problem.
Btrfs has a kind of work queued as an ordered way, which means that its
ordered_func() must be processed in the way of FIFO, so it usually looks like --
normal_work_helper(arg)
work = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work);
work->func() <---- (we name it work X)
for ordered_work in wq->ordered_list
ordered_work->ordered_func()
ordered_work->ordered_free()
The hang is a rare case, first when we find free space, we get an uncached block
group, then we go to read its free space cache inode for free space information,
so it will
file a readahead request
btrfs_readpages()
for page that is not in page cache
__do_readpage()
submit_extent_page()
btrfs_submit_bio_hook()
btrfs_bio_wq_end_io()
submit_bio()
end_workqueue_bio() <--(ret by the 1st endio)
queue a work(named work Y) for the 2nd
also the real endio()
So the hang occurs when work Y's work_struct and work X's work_struct happens
to share the same address.
A bit more explanation,
A,B,C -- struct btrfs_work
arg -- struct work_struct
kthread:
worker_thread()
pick up a work_struct from @worklist
process_one_work(arg)
worker->current_work = arg; <-- arg is A->normal_work
worker->current_func(arg)
normal_work_helper(arg)
A = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work);
A->func()
A->ordered_func()
A->ordered_free() <-- A gets freed
B->ordered_func()
submit_compressed_extents()
find_free_extent()
load_free_space_inode()
... <-- (the above readhead stack)
end_workqueue_bio()
btrfs_queue_work(work C)
B->ordered_free()
As if work A has a high priority in wq->ordered_list and there are more ordered
works queued after it, such as B->ordered_func(), its memory could have been
freed before normal_work_helper() returns, which means that kernel workqueue
code worker_thread() still has worker->current_work pointer to be work
A->normal_work's, ie. arg's address.
Meanwhile, work C is allocated after work A is freed, work C->normal_work
and work A->normal_work are likely to share the same address(I confirmed this
with ftrace output, so I'm not just guessing, it's rare though).
When another kthread picks up work C->normal_work to process, and finds our
kthread is processing it(see find_worker_executing_work()), it'll think
work C as a collision and skip then, which ends up nobody processing work C.
So the situation is that our kthread is waiting forever on work C.
Besides, there're other cases that can lead to deadlock, but the real problem
is that all btrfs workqueue shares one work->func, -- normal_work_helper,
so this makes each workqueue to have its own helper function, but only a
wraper pf normal_work_helper.
With this patch, I no long hit the above hang.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Since most of the btrfs_workqueue is printed as pointer address,
for easier analysis, add trace for btrfs_workqueue alloc/destroy.
So it is possible to determine the workqueue that a given work belongs
to(by comparing the wq pointer address with alloc trace event).
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
The new btrfs_workqueue still use open-coded function defition,
this patch will change them into btrfs_func_t type which is much the
same as kernel workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Since the "_struct" suffix is mainly used for distinguish the differnt
btrfs_work between the original and the newly created one,
there is no need using the suffix since all btrfs_workers are changed
into btrfs_workqueue.
Also this patch fixed some codes whose code style is changed due to the
too long "_struct" suffix.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Since all the btrfs_worker is replaced with the newly created
btrfs_workqueue, the old codes can be easily remove.
Signed-off-by: Quwenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
The original btrfs_workers has thresholding functions to dynamically
create or destroy kthreads.
Though there is no such function in kernel workqueue because the worker
is not created manually, we can still use the workqueue_set_max_active
to simulated the behavior, mainly to achieve a better HDD performance by
setting a high threshold on submit_workers.
(Sadly, no resource can be saved)
So in this patch, extra workqueue pending counters are introduced to
dynamically change the max active of each btrfs_workqueue_struct, hoping
to restore the behavior of the original thresholding function.
Also, workqueue_set_max_active use a mutex to protect workqueue_struct,
which is not meant to be called too frequently, so a new interval
mechanism is applied, that will only call workqueue_set_max_active after
a count of work is queued. Hoping to balance both the random and
sequence performance on HDD.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Add high priority function to btrfs_workqueue.
This is implemented by embedding a btrfs_workqueue into a
btrfs_workqueue and use some helper functions to differ the normal
priority wq and high priority wq.
So the high priority wq is completely independent from the normal
workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Use kernel workqueue to implement a new btrfs_workqueue_struct, which
has the ordering execution feature like the btrfs_worker.
The func is executed in a concurrency way, and the
ordred_func/ordered_free is executed in the sequence them are queued
after the corresponding func is done.
The new btrfs_workqueue works much like the original one, one workqueue
for normal work and a list for ordered work.
When a work is queued, ordered work will be added to the list and helper
function will be queued into the workqueue.
The helper function will execute a normal work and then check and execute as many
ordered work as possible in the sequence they were queued.
At this patch, high priority work queue or thresholding is not added yet.
The high priority feature and thresholding will be added in the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
The current implementation of worker threads in Btrfs has races in
worker stopping code, which cause all kinds of panics and lockups when
running btrfs/011 xfstest in a loop. The problem is that
btrfs_stop_workers is unsynchronized with respect to check_idle_worker,
check_busy_worker and __btrfs_start_workers.
E.g., check_idle_worker race flow:
btrfs_stop_workers(): check_idle_worker(aworker):
- grabs the lock
- splices the idle list into the
working list
- removes the first worker from the
working list
- releases the lock to wait for
its kthread's completion
- grabs the lock
- if aworker is on the working list,
moves aworker from the working list
to the idle list
- releases the lock
- grabs the lock
- puts the worker
- removes the second worker from the
working list
......
btrfs_stop_workers returns, aworker is on the idle list
FS is umounted, memory is freed
......
aworker is waken up, fireworks ensue
With this applied, I wasn't able to trigger the problem in 48 hours,
whereas previously I could reliably reproduce at least one of these
races within an hour.
Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Al pointed out we have some random problems with the way we account for
num_workers_starting in the async thread stuff. First of all we need to make
sure to decrement num_workers_starting if we fail to start the worker, so make
__btrfs_start_workers do this. Also fix __btrfs_start_workers so that it
doesn't call btrfs_stop_workers(), there is no point in stopping everybody if we
failed to create a worker. Also check_pending_worker_creates needs to call
__btrfs_start_work in it's work function since it already increments
num_workers_starting.
People only start one worker at a time, so get rid of the num_workers argument
everywhere, and make btrfs_queue_worker a void since it will always succeed.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
The btrfs async worker threads are used for a wide variety of things,
including processing bio end_io functions. This means that when
the endio threads aren't running, the rest of the FS isn't
able to do the final processing required to clear PageWriteback.
The endio threads also try to exit as they become idle and
start more as the work piles up. The problem is that starting more
threads means kthreadd may need to allocate ram, and that allocation
may wait until the global number of writeback pages on the system is
below a certain limit.
The result of that throttling is that end IO threads wait on
kthreadd, who is waiting on IO to end, which will never happen.
This commit fixes the deadlock by handing off thread startup to a
dedicated thread. It also fixes a bug where the on-demand thread
creation was creating far too many threads because it didn't take into
account threads being started by other procs.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The btrfs worker thread spinlock was being used both for the
queueing of IO and for the processing of ordered events.
The ordered events never happen from end_io handlers, and so they
don't need to use the _irq version of spinlocks. This adds a
dedicated lock to the ordered lists so they don't have to run
with irqs off.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The Btrfs worker threads don't currently die off after they have
been idle for a while, leading to a lot of threads sitting around
doing nothing for each mount.
Also, they are unable to start atomically (from end_io hanlders).
This commit reworks the worker threads so they can be started
from end_io handlers (just setting a flag that asks for a thread
to be added at a later date) and so they can exit if they
have been idle for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Btrfs is using WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to send down synchronous IOs with a
higher priority. But, the checksumming helper threads prevent it
from being fully effective.
There are two problems. First, a big queue of pending checksumming
will delay the synchronous IO behind other lower priority writes. Second,
the checksumming uses an ordered async work queue. The ordering makes sure
that IOs are sent to the block layer in the same order they are sent
to the checksumming threads. Usually this gives us less seeky IO.
But, when we start mixing IO priorities, the lower priority IO can delay
the higher priority IO.
This patch solves both problems by adding a high priority list to the async
helper threads, and a new btrfs_set_work_high_prio(), which is used
to make put a new async work item onto the higher priority list.
The ordering is still done on high priority IO, but all of the high
priority bios are ordered separately from the low priority bios. This
ordering is purely an IO optimization, it is not involved in data
or metadata integrity.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Btrfs uses kernel threads to create async work queues for cpu intensive
operations such as checksumming and decompression. These work well,
but they make it difficult to keep IO order intact.
A single writepages call from pdflush or fsync will turn into a number
of bios, and each bio is checksummed in parallel. Once the checksum is
computed, the bio is sent down to the disk, and since we don't control
the order in which the parallel operations happen, they might go down to
the disk in almost any order.
The code deals with this somewhat by having deep work queues for a single
kernel thread, making it very likely that a single thread will process all
the bios for a single inode.
This patch introduces an explicitly ordered work queue. As work structs
are placed into the queue they are put onto the tail of a list. They have
three callbacks:
->func (cpu intensive processing here)
->ordered_func (order sensitive processing here)
->ordered_free (free the work struct, all processing is done)
The work struct has three callbacks. The func callback does the cpu intensive
work, and when it completes the work struct is marked as done.
Every time a work struct completes, the list is checked to see if the head
is marked as done. If so the ordered_func callback is used to do the
order sensitive processing and the ordered_free callback is used to do
any cleanup. Then we loop back and check the head of the list again.
This patch also changes the checksumming code to use the ordered workqueues.
One a 4 drive array, it increases streaming writes from 280MB/s to 350MB/s.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This improves the comments at the top of many functions. It didn't
dive into the guts of functions because I was trying to
avoid merging problems with the new allocator and back reference work.
extent-tree.c and volumes.c were both skipped, and there is definitely
more work todo in cleaning and commenting the code.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This changes the worker thread pool to maintain a list of idle threads,
avoiding a complex search for a good thread to wake up.
Threads have two states:
idle - we try to reuse the last thread used in hopes of improving the batching
ratios
busy - each time a new work item is added to a busy task, the task is
rotated to the end of the line.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Btrfs has been using workqueues to spread the checksumming load across
other CPUs in the system. But, workqueues only schedule work on the
same CPU that queued the work, giving them a limited benefit for systems with
higher CPU counts.
This code adds a generic facility to schedule work with pools of kthreads,
and changes the bio submission code to queue bios up. The queueing is
important to make sure large numbers of procs on the system don't
turn streaming workloads into random workloads by sending IO down
concurrently.
The end result of all of this is much higher performance (and CPU usage) when
doing checksumming on large machines. Two worker pools are created,
one for writes and one for endio processing. The two could deadlock if
we tried to service both from a single pool.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Christoph Hellwig