linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 38/52] bdi: Move cgroup bdi_writeback to a dedicated low concurrency workqueue

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Message-Id: <20180624142746.732467308@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:21:31 +0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 38/52] bdi: Move cgroup bdi_writeback to a dedicated low concurrency workqueue

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

commit f183464684190bacbfb14623bd3e4e51b7575b4c upstream.

>>From 0aa2e9b921d6db71150633ff290199554f0842a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 10:29:00 -0700

cgwb_release() punts the actual release to cgwb_release_workfn() on
system_wq.  Depending on the number of cgroups or block devices, there
can be a lot of cgwb_release_workfn() in flight at the same time.

We're periodically seeing close to 256 kworkers getting stuck with the
following stack trace and overtime the entire system gets stuck.

  [<ffffffff810ee40c>] _synchronize_rcu_expedited.constprop.72+0x2fc/0x330
  [<ffffffff810ee634>] synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x24/0x30
  [<ffffffff811ccf23>] bdi_unregister+0x53/0x290
  [<ffffffff811cd1e9>] release_bdi+0x89/0xc0
  [<ffffffff811cd645>] wb_exit+0x85/0xa0
  [<ffffffff811cdc84>] cgwb_release_workfn+0x54/0xb0
  [<ffffffff810a68d0>] process_one_work+0x150/0x410
  [<ffffffff810a71fd>] worker_thread+0x6d/0x520
  [<ffffffff810ad3dc>] kthread+0x12c/0x160
  [<ffffffff81969019>] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40
  [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The events leading to the lockup are...

1. A lot of cgwb_release_workfn() is queued at the same time and all
   system_wq kworkers are assigned to execute them.

2. They all end up calling synchronize_rcu_expedited().  One of them
   wins and tries to perform the expedited synchronization.

3. However, that invovles queueing rcu_exp_work to system_wq and
   waiting for it.  Because #1 is holding all available kworkers on
   system_wq, rcu_exp_work can't be executed.  cgwb_release_workfn()
   is waiting for synchronize_rcu_expedited() which in turn is waiting
   for cgwb_release_workfn() to free up some of the kworkers.

We shouldn't be scheduling hundreds of cgwb_release_workfn() at the
same time.  There's nothing to be gained from that.  This patch
updates cgwb release path to use a dedicated percpu workqueue with
@max_active of 1.

While this resolves the problem at hand, it might be a good idea to
isolate rcu_exp_work to its own workqueue too as it can be used from
various paths and is prone to this sort of indirect A-A deadlocks.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/backing-dev.c |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static void wb_exit(struct bdi_writeback
  * protected.
  */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cgwb_lock);
+static struct workqueue_struct *cgwb_release_wq;

 /**
  * wb_congested_get_create - get or create a wb_congested
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ static void cgwb_release(struct percpu_r
 {
 	struct bdi_writeback *wb = container_of(refcnt, struct bdi_writeback,
 						refcnt);
-	schedule_work(&wb->release_work);
+	queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work);
 }

 static void cgwb_kill(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
@@ -783,6 +784,21 @@ static void cgwb_bdi_register(struct bac
 	spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock);
 }

+static int __init cgwb_init(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * There can be many concurrent release work items overwhelming
+	 * system_wq.  Put them in a separate wq and limit concurrency.
+	 * There's no point in executing many of these in parallel.
+	 */
+	cgwb_release_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgwb_release", 0, 1);
+	if (!cgwb_release_wq)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+subsys_initcall(cgwb_init);
+
 #else	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */

 static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)