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Date:   Thu, 28 Dec 2017 11:59:22 +0800
From:   Eric Ren <zren@...e.com>
To:     Gang He <ghe@...e.com>, mfasheh@...sity.com, jlbec@...lplan.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
        rgoldwyn@...e.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: try a blocking lock before return
 AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE

Hi,


On 12/27/2017 05:29 PM, Gang He wrote:
> If we can't get inode lock immediately in the function
> ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page() when reading a page, we should not
> return directly here, since this will lead to a softlockup problem.
> The method is to get a blocking lock and immediately unlock before
> returning, this can avoid CPU resource waste due to lots of retries,
> and benefits fairness in getting lock among multiple nodes, increase
> efficiency in case modifying the same file frequently from multiple
> nodes.
> The softlockup problem looks like,
> Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
> CPU: 0 PID: 885 Comm: multi_mmap Tainted: G L 4.12.14-6.1-default #1
> Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
>    <IRQ>
>    dump_stack+0x5c/0x82
>    panic+0xd5/0x21e
>    watchdog_timer_fn+0x208/0x210
>    ? watchdog_park_threads+0x70/0x70
>    __hrtimer_run_queues+0xcc/0x200
>    hrtimer_interrupt+0xa6/0x1f0
>    smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x50
>    apic_timer_interrupt+0x96/0xa0
>    </IRQ>
>   RIP: 0010:unlock_page+0x17/0x30
>   RSP: 0000:ffffaf154080bc88 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff10
>   RAX: dead000000000100 RBX: fffff21e009f5300 RCX: 0000000000000004
>   RDX: dead0000000000ff RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: fffff21e009f5300
>   RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffaf154080bb00
>   R10: ffffaf154080bc30 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff993749a39518
>   R13: 0000000000000000 R14: fffff21e009f5300 R15: fffff21e009f5300
>    ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page+0x25/0x30 [ocfs2]
>    ocfs2_readpage+0x41/0x2d0 [ocfs2]
>    ? pagecache_get_page+0x30/0x200
>    filemap_fault+0x12b/0x5c0
>    ? recalc_sigpending+0x17/0x50
>    ? __set_task_blocked+0x28/0x70
>    ? __set_current_blocked+0x3d/0x60
>    ocfs2_fault+0x29/0xb0 [ocfs2]
>    __do_fault+0x1a/0xa0
>    __handle_mm_fault+0xbe8/0x1090
>    handle_mm_fault+0xaa/0x1f0
>    __do_page_fault+0x235/0x4b0
>    trace_do_page_fault+0x3c/0x110
>    async_page_fault+0x28/0x30
>   RIP: 0033:0x7fa75ded638e
>   RSP: 002b:00007ffd6657db18 EFLAGS: 00010287
>   RAX: 000055c7662fb700 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 000055c7662fb700
>   RDX: 0000000000001770 RSI: 00007fa75e909000 RDI: 000055c7662fb700
>   RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 000000000000000e R09: 0000000000000000
>   R10: 0000000000000483 R11: 00007fa75ded61b0 R12: 00007fa75e90a770
>   R13: 000000000000000e R14: 0000000000001770 R15: 0000000000000000
>
> Fixes: 1cce4df04f37 ("ocfs2: do not lock/unlock() inode DLM lock")
> Signed-off-by: Gang He <ghe@...e.com>

On most linux server, CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set for better system-wide 
throughtput.
The long-time retry logic for getting page lock and inode lock can 
easily cause softlock,
resulting in real time task like corosync when using pcmk stack cannot 
be scheduled
on time.

When multiple nodes concurrently write the same file, the performance 
cannot be good
anyway, and it's also less possibility.

The trick for avoiding the busy loop looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: zren@...e.com

Thanks,
Eric

> ---
>   fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 9 +++++++++
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> index 4689940..5193218 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> @@ -2486,6 +2486,15 @@ int ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page(struct inode *inode,
>   	ret = ocfs2_inode_lock_full(inode, ret_bh, ex, OCFS2_LOCK_NONBLOCK);
>   	if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
>   		unlock_page(page);
> +		/*
> +		 * If we can't get inode lock immediately, we should not return
> +		 * directly here, since this will lead to a softlockup problem.
> +		 * The method is to get a blocking lock and immediately unlock
> +		 * before returning, this can avoid CPU resource waste due to
> +		 * lots of retries, and benefits fairness in getting lock.
> +		 */
> +		if (ocfs2_inode_lock(inode, ret_bh, ex) == 0)
> +			ocfs2_inode_unlock(inode, ex);
>   		ret = AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE;
>   	}
>