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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1604281127130.14065@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:29:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@...gate.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@...cle.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] block: avoid to call .bi_end_io() recursively
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Ming Lei wrote:
> There were reports about heavy stack use by recursive calling
> .bi_end_io()([1][2][3]). For example, more than 16K stack is
> consumed in a single bio complete path[3], and in [2] stack
> overflow can be triggered if 20 nested dm-crypt is used.
>
> Also patches[1] [2] [3] were posted for addressing the issue,
> but never be merged. And the idea in these patches is basically
> similar, all serializes the recursive calling of .bi_end_io() by
> percpu list.
>
> This patch still takes the same idea, but uses bio_list to
> implement it, which turns out more simple and the code becomes
> more readable meantime.
>
> One corner case which wasn't covered before is that
> bi_endio() may be scheduled to run in process context(such
> as btrfs), and this patch just bypasses the optimizing for
> that case because one new context should have enough stack space,
> and this approach isn't capable of optimizing it too because
> there isn't easy way to get a per-task linked list head.
Hi
You could use preempt_disable() and then you could use per-cpu list even
in the process context.
Mikulas
> xfstests(-g auto) is run with this patch and no regression is
> found on ext4, xfs and btrfs.
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?t=121428502000004&r=1&w=2
> [2] http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=139595190620008&w=2
> [3] http://marc.info/?t=145974644100001&r=1&w=2
>
> Cc: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@...gate.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
> Cc: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
> ---
> block/bio.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
> index 807d25e..e20a83c 100644
> --- a/block/bio.c
> +++ b/block/bio.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(bio_slab_lock);
> static struct bio_slab *bio_slabs;
> static unsigned int bio_slab_nr, bio_slab_max;
>
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct bio_list *, bio_end_list) = { NULL };
> +
> static struct kmem_cache *bio_find_or_create_slab(unsigned int extra_size)
> {
> unsigned int sz = sizeof(struct bio) + extra_size;
> @@ -1737,6 +1739,56 @@ static inline bool bio_remaining_done(struct bio *bio)
> return false;
> }
>
> +static void __bio_endio(struct bio *bio)
> +{
> + if (bio->bi_end_io)
> + bio->bi_end_io(bio);
> +}
> +
> +/* disable local irq when manipulating the percpu bio_list */
> +static void unwind_bio_endio(struct bio *bio)
> +{
> + struct bio_list *bl;
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + /*
> + * We can't optimize if bi_endio() is scheduled to run from
> + * process context because there isn't easy way to get a
> + * per-task bio list head or allocate a per-task variable.
> + */
> + if (!in_interrupt()) {
> + /*
> + * It has to be a top calling when it is run from
> + * process context.
> + */
> + WARN_ON(this_cpu_read(bio_end_list));
> + __bio_endio(bio);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + local_irq_save(flags);
> + bl = __this_cpu_read(bio_end_list);
> + if (bl) {
> + bio_list_add(bl, bio);
> + } else {
> + struct bio_list bl_in_stack;
> +
> + bl = &bl_in_stack;
> + bio_list_init(bl);
> +
> + __this_cpu_write(bio_end_list, bl);
> + while (bio) {
> + local_irq_restore(flags);
> + __bio_endio(bio);
> + local_irq_save(flags);
> +
> + bio = bio_list_pop(bl);
> + }
> + __this_cpu_write(bio_end_list, NULL);
> + }
> + local_irq_restore(flags);
> +}
> +
> /**
> * bio_endio - end I/O on a bio
> * @bio: bio
> @@ -1765,8 +1817,7 @@ again:
> goto again;
> }
>
> - if (bio->bi_end_io)
> - bio->bi_end_io(bio);
> + unwind_bio_endio(bio);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_endio);
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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