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Date:   Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:10:19 +0000
From:   Changwei Ge <ge.changwei@....com>
To:     Gang He <ghe@...e.com>,
        "mfasheh@...sity.com" <mfasheh@...sity.com>,
        "jlbec@...lplan.org" <jlbec@...lplan.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com" <ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v2] ocfs2: try a blocking lock before
 return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE

Hi Gang,

It looks good to me.

Thanks,
Changwei

On 2017/12/28 15:49, 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
> when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set.
> 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 crash (when set /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_panic to 1)
> 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
> 
> About performance improvement, we can see the testing time is reduced,
> and CPU utilization decreases, the detailed data is as follows.
> I ran multi_mmap test case in ocfs2-test package in a three nodes cluster.
> Before apply this patch,
>    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
>   2754 ocfs2te+  20   0  170248   6980   4856 D 80.73 0.341   0:18.71 multi_mmap
>   1505 root      rt   0  222236 123060  97224 S 2.658 6.015   0:01.44 corosync
>      5 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 1.329 0.000   0:00.19 kworker/u8:0
>     95 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 1.329 0.000   0:00.25 kworker/u8:1
>   2728 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 0.997 0.000   0:00.24 jbd2/sda1-33
>   2721 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 0.664 0.000   0:00.07 ocfs2dc-3C8CFD4
>   2750 ocfs2te+  20   0  142976   4652   3532 S 0.664 0.227   0:00.28 mpirun
> 
> ocfs2test@...node2:~>multiple_run.sh -i ens3 -k ~/linux-4.4.21-69.tar.gz -o
> ~/ocfs2mullog -C hacluster -s pcmk -n tb-node2,tb-node1,tb-node3 -d
> /dev/sda1 -b 4096 -c 32768 -t multi_mmap /mnt/shared
> Tests with "-b 4096 -C 32768"
> Thu Dec 28 14:44:52 CST 2017
> multi_mmap..................................................Passed.
> Runtime 783 seconds.
> 
> After apply this patch,
>    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
>   2508 ocfs2te+  20   0  170248   6804   4680 R 54.00 0.333   0:55.37 multi_mmap
>    155 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 2.667 0.000   0:01.20 kworker/u8:3
>     95 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 2.000 0.000   0:01.58 kworker/u8:1
>   2504 ocfs2te+  20   0  142976   4604   3480 R 1.667 0.225   0:01.65 mpirun
>      5 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 1.000 0.000   0:01.36 kworker/u8:0
>   2482 root      20   0       0      0      0 S 1.000 0.000   0:00.86 jbd2/sda1-33
>    299 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S 0.333 0.000   0:00.13 kworker/2:1H
>    335 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S 0.333 0.000   0:00.17 kworker/1:1H
>    535 root      20   0   12140   7268   1456 S 0.333 0.355   0:00.34 haveged
>   1282 root      rt   0  222284 123108  97224 S 0.333 6.017   0:01.33 corosync
> 
> ocfs2test@...node2:~>multiple_run.sh -i ens3 -k ~/linux-4.4.21-69.tar.gz -o
> ~/ocfs2mullog -C hacluster -s pcmk -n tb-node2,tb-node1,tb-node3 -d
> /dev/sda1 -b 4096 -c 32768 -t multi_mmap /mnt/shared
> Tests with "-b 4096 -C 32768"
> Thu Dec 28 15:04:12 CST 2017
> multi_mmap..................................................Passed.
> Runtime 487 seconds.
> 
> Fixes: 1cce4df04f37 ("ocfs2: do not lock/unlock() inode DLM lock")
> Signed-off-by: Gang He <ghe@...e.com>
Reviewed-by: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei@....com>
> ---
>   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;
>   	}
>   
> 

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