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  1. Oct 09, 2022
  3. Mar 09, 2022
  5. Dec 09, 2021
    • Jan Kara's avatar
      blk: Fix lock inversion between ioc lock and bfqd lock · 80086651
      Jan Kara authored 
      
mainline inclusion
from mainline-v5.14-rc1
commit  fd2ef39cc9a6b9c4c41864ac506906c52f94b06a
category: bugfix
bugzilla: 185777, 185811
CVE: NA

Lockdep complains about lock inversion between ioc->lock and bfqd->lock:

bfqd -> ioc:
 put_io_context+0x33/0x90 -> ioc->lock grabbed
 blk_mq_free_request+0x51/0x140
 blk_put_request+0xe/0x10
 blk_attempt_req_merge+0x1d/0x30
 elv_attempt_insert_merge+0x56/0xa0
 blk_mq_sched_try_insert_merge+0x4b/0x60
 bfq_insert_requests+0x9e/0x18c0 -> bfqd->lock grabbed
 blk_mq_sched_insert_requests+0xd6/0x2b0
 blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x154/0x280
 blk_finish_plug+0x40/0x60
 ext4_writepages+0x696/0x1320
 do_writepages+0x1c/0x80
 __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xd7/0x120
 sync_file_range+0xac/0xf0

ioc->bfqd:
 bfq_exit_icq+0xa3/0xe0 -> bfqd->lock grabbed
 put_io_context_active+0x78/0xb0 -> ioc->lock grabbed
 exit_io_context+0x48/0x50
 do_exit+0x7e9/0xdd0
 do_group_exit+0x54/0xc0

To avoid this inversion we change blk_mq_sched_try_insert_merge() to not
free the merged request but rather leave that upto the caller similarly
to blk_mq_sched_try_merge(). And in bfq_insert_requests() we make sure
to free all the merged requests after dropping bfqd->lock.

Fixes: aee69d78 ("block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler")
Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623093634.27879-3-jack@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Conflict: 1. mainline include/linux/elevator.h file change;
          2. mainline block/mq-deadline-main.c file change, now change
             to block/mq-deadline.c;
	  3. in block/blk-merge.c, in function blk_attempt_req_merge,
	     4.19 have difference from mainline;
	  4. in 4.19, elv_attempt_insert_merge has beed called twice
	     but once in mainline;
Reviewed-by: default avatarJason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
      80086651
  7. Sep 17, 2021
  9. Aug 16, 2021
  11. Dec 27, 2019
    • Yufen Yu's avatar
      block: fix null pointer dereference in blk_mq_rq_timed_out() · a7895154
      Yufen Yu authored and 谢秀奇's avatar 谢秀奇 committed 
      
commit 8d699663 upstream.

We got a null pointer deference BUG_ON in blk_mq_rq_timed_out()
as following:

[  108.825472] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
[  108.827059] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  108.827313] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[  108.827657] CPU: 6 PID: 198 Comm: kworker/6:1H Not tainted 5.3.0-rc8+ #431
[  108.829503] Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_timeout_work
[  108.829913] RIP: 0010:blk_mq_check_expired+0x258/0x330
[  108.838191] Call Trace:
[  108.838406]  bt_iter+0x74/0x80
[  108.838665]  blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter+0x204/0x450
[  108.839074]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
[  108.839405]  ? blk_mq_stop_hw_queue+0x40/0x40
[  108.839823]  ? blk_mq_stop_hw_queue+0x40/0x40
[  108.840273]  ? syscall_return_via_sysret+0xf/0x7f
[  108.840732]  blk_mq_timeout_work+0x74/0x200
[  108.841151]  process_one_work+0x297/0x680
[  108.841550]  worker_thread+0x29c/0x6f0
[  108.841926]  ? rescuer_thread+0x580/0x580
[  108.842344]  kthread+0x16a/0x1a0
[  108.842666]  ? kthread_flush_work+0x170/0x170
[  108.843100]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

The bug is caused by the race between timeout handle and completion for
flush request.

When timeout handle function blk_mq_rq_timed_out() try to read
'req->q->mq_ops', the 'req' have completed and reinitiated by next
flush request, which would call blk_rq_init() to clear 'req' as 0.

After commit 12f5b931 ("blk-mq: Remove generation seqeunce"),
normal requests lifetime are protected by refcount. Until 'rq->ref'
drop to zero, the request can really be free. Thus, these requests
cannot been reused before timeout handle finish.

However, flush request has defined .end_io and rq->end_io() is still
called even if 'rq->ref' doesn't drop to zero. After that, the 'flush_rq'
can be reused by the next flush request handle, resulting in null
pointer deference BUG ON.

We fix this problem by covering flush request with 'rq->ref'.
If the refcount is not zero, flush_end_io() return and wait the
last holder recall it. To record the request status, we add a new
entry 'rq_status', which will be used in flush_end_io().

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

-------
v2:
 - move rq_status from struct request to struct blk_flush_queue
v3:
 - remove unnecessary '{}' pair.
v4:
 - let spinlock to protect 'fq->rq_status'
v5:
 - move rq_status after flush_running_idx member of struct blk_flush_queue
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
      a7895154
    • Jianchao Wang's avatar
      blk-mq: change gfp flags to GFP_NOIO in blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs · 510e2c06
      Jianchao Wang authored and 谢秀奇's avatar 谢秀奇 committed 
      
mainline inclusion
from mainline-4.20-rc1
commit 5b202853
category: bugfix
bugzilla: 5833
CVE: NA
---------------------------

blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs could be invoked during update hw queues.
At the momemt, IO is blocked. Change the gfp flags from GFP_KERNEL
to GFP_NOIO to avoid forever hang during memory allocation in
blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Signed-off-by: default avatarYufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarzhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
      510e2c06
  13. Nov 14, 2018
  15. Aug 21, 2018
    • Jianchao Wang's avatar
      blk-mq: init hctx sched after update ctx and hctx mapping · d48ece20
      Jianchao Wang authored 
      
Currently, when update nr_hw_queues, IO scheduler's init_hctx will
be invoked before the mapping between ctx and hctx is adapted
correctly by blk_mq_map_swqueue. The IO scheduler init_hctx (kyber)
may depend on this mapping and get wrong result and panic finally.
A simply way to fix this is that switch the IO scheduler to 'none'
before update the nr_hw_queues, and then switch it back after
update nr_hw_queues. blk_mq_sched_init_/exit_hctx are removed due
to nobody use them any more.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      d48ece20
  17. Aug 17, 2018
  19. Aug 09, 2018
  21. Jul 09, 2018
    • Josef Bacik's avatar
      block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller · d7067512
      Josef Bacik authored 
      
Current IO controllers for the block layer are less than ideal for our
use case.  The io.max controller is great at hard limiting, but it is
not work conserving.  This patch introduces io.latency.  You provide a
latency target for your group and we monitor the io in short windows to
make sure we are not exceeding those latency targets.  This makes use of
the rq-qos infrastructure and works much like the wbt stuff.  There are
a few differences from wbt

 - It's bio based, so the latency covers the whole block layer in addition to
   the actual io.
 - We will throttle all IO types that comes in here if we need to.
 - We use the mean latency over the 100ms window.  This is because writes can
   be particularly fast, which could give us a false sense of the impact of
   other workloads on our protected workload.
 - By default there's no throttling, we set the queue_depth to INT_MAX so that
   we can have as many outstanding bio's as we're allowed to.  Only at
   throttle time do we pay attention to the actual queue depth.
 - We backcharge cgroups for root cg issued IO and induce artificial
   delays in order to deal with cases like metadata only or swap heavy
   workloads.

In testing this has worked out relatively well.  Protected workloads
will throttle noisy workloads down to 1 io at time if they are doing
normal IO on their own, or induce up to a 1 second delay per syscall if
they are doing a lot of root issued IO (metadata/swap IO).

Our testing has revolved mostly around our production web servers where
we have hhvm (the web server application) in a protected group and
everything else in another group.  We see slightly higher requests per
second (RPS) on the test tier vs the control tier, and much more stable
RPS across all machines in the test tier vs the control tier.

Another test we run is a slow memory allocator in the unprotected group.
Before this would eventually push us into swap and cause the whole box
to die and not recover at all.  With these patches we see slight RPS
drops (usually 10-15%) before the memory consumer is properly killed and
things recover within seconds.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      d7067512
  23. Jun 01, 2018
  25. May 09, 2018
    • Omar Sandoval's avatar
      block: consolidate struct request timestamp fields · 522a7775
      Omar Sandoval authored 
      
Currently, struct request has four timestamp fields:

- A start time, set at get_request time, in jiffies, used for iostats
- An I/O start time, set at start_request time, in ktime nanoseconds,
  used for blk-stats (i.e., wbt, kyber, hybrid polling)
- Another start time and another I/O start time, used for cfq and bfq

These can all be consolidated into one start time and one I/O start
time, both in ktime nanoseconds, shaving off up to 16 bytes from struct
request depending on the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      522a7775
  27. Mar 09, 2018
  29. Jan 19, 2018
  31. Jan 11, 2018
  33. Jan 10, 2018
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      blk-mq: remove REQ_ATOM_STARTED · 5a61c363
      Tejun Heo authored 
      
After the recent updates to use generation number and state based
synchronization, we can easily replace REQ_ATOM_STARTED usages by
adding an extra state to distinguish completed but not yet freed
state.

Add MQ_RQ_COMPLETE and replace REQ_ATOM_STARTED usages with
blk_mq_rq_state() tests.  REQ_ATOM_STARTED no longer has any users
left and is removed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      5a61c363
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      blk-mq: replace timeout synchronization with a RCU and generation based scheme · 1d9bd516
      Tejun Heo authored 
      
Currently, blk-mq timeout path synchronizes against the usual
issue/completion path using a complex scheme involving atomic
bitflags, REQ_ATOM_*, memory barriers and subtle memory coherence
rules.  Unfortunately, it contains quite a few holes.

There's a complex dancing around REQ_ATOM_STARTED and
REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE between issue/completion and timeout paths; however,
they don't have a synchronization point across request recycle
instances and it isn't clear what the barriers add.
blk_mq_check_expired() can easily read STARTED from N-2'th iteration,
deadline from N-1'th, blk_mark_rq_complete() against Nth instance.

In fact, it's pretty easy to make blk_mq_check_expired() terminate a
later instance of a request.  If we induce 5 sec delay before
time_after_eq() test in blk_mq_check_expired(), shorten the timeout to
2s, and issue back-to-back large IOs, blk-mq starts timing out
requests spuriously pretty quickly.  Nothing actually timed out.  It
just made the call on a recycle instance of a request and then
terminated a later instance long after the original instance finished.
The scenario isn't theoretical either.

This patch replaces the broken synchronization mechanism with a RCU
and generation number based one.

1. Each request has a u64 generation + state value, which can be
   updated only by the request owner.  Whenever a request becomes
   in-flight, the generation number gets bumped up too.  This provides
   the basis for the timeout path to distinguish different recycle
   instances of the request.

   Also, marking a request in-flight and setting its deadline are
   protected with a seqcount so that the timeout path can fetch both
   values coherently.

2. The timeout path fetches the generation, state and deadline.  If
   the verdict is timeout, it records the generation into a dedicated
   request abortion field and does RCU wait.

3. The completion path is also protected by RCU (from the previous
   patch) and checks whether the current generation number and state
   match the abortion field.  If so, it skips completion.

4. The timeout path, after RCU wait, scans requests again and
   terminates the ones whose generation and state still match the ones
   requested for abortion.

   By now, the timeout path knows that either the generation number
   and state changed if it lost the race or the completion will yield
   to it and can safely timeout the request.

While it's more lines of code, it's conceptually simpler, doesn't
depend on direct use of subtle memory ordering or coherence, and
hopefully doesn't terminate the wrong instance.

While this change makes REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE synchronization unnecessary
between issue/complete and timeout paths, REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE isn't
removed yet as it's still used in other places.  Future patches will
move all state tracking to the new mechanism and remove all bitops in
the hot paths.

Note that this patch adds a comment explaining a race condition in
BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER path.  The race has always been there and this
patch doesn't change it.  It's just documenting the existing race.

v2: - Fixed BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER handling as pointed out by Jianchao.
    - s/request->gstate_seqc/request->gstate_seq/ as suggested by Peter.
    - READ_ONCE() added in blk_mq_rq_update_state() as suggested by Peter.

v3: - Fixed possible extended seqcount / u64_stats_sync read looping
      spotted by Peter.
    - MQ_RQ_IDLE was incorrectly being set in complete_request instead
      of free_request.  Fixed.

v4: - Rebased on top of hctx_lock() refactoring patch.
    - Added comment explaining the use of hctx_lock() in completion path.

v5: - Added comments requested by Bart.
    - Note the addition of BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER race condition in the
      commit message.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      1d9bd516
  35. Jan 06, 2018
  37. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored 
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard...
      b2441318
  39. Oct 05, 2017
  41. Oct 03, 2017
  43. Aug 29, 2017
  45. Aug 24, 2017
  47. Jul 04, 2017
  49. Jun 28, 2017
  51. Jun 21, 2017
  53. Jun 02, 2017
    • Bart Van Assche's avatar
      block: Avoid that blk_exit_rl() triggers a use-after-free · b425e504
      Bart Van Assche authored 
      
Since the introduction of .init_rq_fn() and .exit_rq_fn() it is
essential that the memory allocated for struct request_queue
stays around until all blk_exit_rl() calls have finished. Hence
make blk_init_rl() take a reference on struct request_queue.

This patch fixes the following crash:

general protection fault: 0000 [#2] SMP
CPU: 3 PID: 28 Comm: ksoftirqd/3 Tainted: G      D         4.12.0-rc2-dbg+ #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
task: ffff88013a108040 task.stack: ffffc9000071c000
RIP: 0010:free_request_size+0x1a/0x30
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000071fd38 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RBX: ffff880067362a88 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: ffff880067464178 RSI: ffff880067362a88 RDI: ffff880135ea4418
RBP: ffffc9000071fd40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000100180009
R10: ffffc9000071fd38 R11: ffffffff81110800 R12: ffff88006752d3d8
R13: ffff88006752d3d8 R14: ffff88013a108040 R15: 000000000000000a
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa8ec1edb00 CR3: 0000000138ee8000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
Call Trace:
 mempool_destroy.part.10+0x21/0x40
 mempool_destroy+0xe/0x10
 blk_exit_rl+0x12/0x20
 blkg_free+0x4d/0xa0
 __blkg_release_rcu+0x59/0x170
 rcu_process_callbacks+0x260/0x4e0
 __do_softirq+0x116/0x250
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x123/0x1e0
 kthread+0x109/0x140
 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40

Fixes: commit e9c787e6 ("scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request")
Signed-off-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      b425e504
  55. Apr 20, 2017
  57. Mar 28, 2017
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      blk-throttle: add a mechanism to estimate IO latency · b9147dd1
      Shaohua Li authored 
      
User configures latency target, but the latency threshold for each
request size isn't fixed. For a SSD, the IO latency highly depends on
request size. To calculate latency threshold, we sample some data, eg,
average latency for request size 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k .. 1M. The latency
threshold of each request size will be the sample latency (I'll call it
base latency) plus latency target. For example, the base latency for
request size 4k is 80us and user configures latency target 60us. The 4k
latency threshold will be 80 + 60 = 140us.

To sample data, we calculate the order base 2 of rounded up IO sectors.
If the IO size is bigger than 1M, it will be accounted as 1M. Since the
calculation does round up, the base latency will be slightly smaller
than actual value. Also if there isn't any IO dispatched for a specific
IO size, we will use the base latency of smaller IO size for this IO
size.

But we shouldn't sample data at any time. The base latency is supposed
to be latency where disk isn't congested, because we use latency
threshold to schedule IOs between cgroups. If disk is congested, the
latency is higher, using it for scheduling is meaningless. Hence we only
do the sampling when block throttling is in the LOW limit, with
assumption disk isn't congested in such state. If the assumption isn't
true, eg, low limit is too high, calculated latency threshold will be
higher.

Hard disk is completely different. Latency depends on spindle seek
instead of request size. Currently this feature is SSD only, we probably
can use a fixed threshold like 4ms for hard disk though.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      b9147dd1
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      blk-throttle: add a simple idle detection · 9e234eea
      Shaohua Li authored 
      
A cgroup gets assigned a low limit, but the cgroup could never dispatch
enough IO to cross the low limit. In such case, the queue state machine
will remain in LIMIT_LOW state and all other cgroups will be throttled
according to low limit. This is unfair for other cgroups. We should
treat the cgroup idle and upgrade the state machine to lower state.

We also have a downgrade logic. If the state machine upgrades because of
cgroup idle (real idle), the state machine will downgrade soon as the
cgroup is below its low limit. This isn't what we want. A more
complicated case is cgroup isn't idle when queue is in LIMIT_LOW. But
when queue gets upgraded to lower state, other cgroups could dispatch
more IO and this cgroup can't dispatch enough IO, so the cgroup is below
its low limit and looks like idle (fake idle). In this case, the queue
should downgrade soon. The key to determine if we should do downgrade is
to detect if cgroup is truely idle.

Unfortunately it's very hard to determine if a cgroup is real idle. This
patch uses the 'think time check' idea from CFQ for the purpose. Please
note, the idea doesn't work for all workloads. For example, a workload
with io depth 8 has disk utilization 100%, hence think time is 0, eg,
not idle. But the workload can run higher bandwidth with io depth 16.
Compared to io depth 16, the io depth 8 workload is idle. We use the
idea to roughly determine if a cgroup is idle.

We treat a cgroup idle if its think time is above a threshold (by
default 1ms for SSD and 100ms for HD). The idea is think time above the
threshold will start to harm performance. HD is much slower so a longer
think time is ok.

The patch (and the latter patches) uses 'unsigned long' to track time.
We convert 'ns' to 'us' with 'ns >> 10'. This is fast but loses
precision, should not a big deal.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      9e234eea
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      blk-throttle: choose a small throtl_slice for SSD · d61fcfa4
      Shaohua Li authored 
      
The throtl_slice is 100ms by default. This is a long time for SSD, a lot
of IO can run. To make cgroups have smoother throughput, we choose a
small value (20ms) for SSD.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      d61fcfa4