linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 269/328] bcache: add separate workqueue for journal

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Date:   Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:50:33 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Coly Li" <colyli@...e.de>,
        "Guoju Fang" <fangguoju@...il.com>, "Jens Axboe" <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 269/328] bcache: add separate workqueue for
 journal_write to avoid deadlock

3.16.62-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Guoju Fang <fangguoju@...il.com>

commit 0f843e65d9eef4936929bb036c5f771fb261eea4 upstream.

After write SSD completed, bcache schedules journal_write work to
system_wq, which is a public workqueue in system, without WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
flag. system_wq is also a bound wq, and there may be no idle kworker on
current processor. Creating a new kworker may unfortunately need to
reclaim memory first, by shrinking cache and slab used by vfs, which
depends on bcache device. That's a deadlock.

This patch create a new workqueue for journal_write with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
flag. It's rescuer thread will work to avoid the deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Guoju Fang <fangguoju@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h  | 1 +
 drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 6 +++---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c   | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
@@ -898,6 +898,7 @@ void bch_prio_write(struct cache *);
 void bch_write_bdev_super(struct cached_dev *, struct closure *);
 
 extern struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *bch_journal_wq;
 extern const char * const bch_cache_modes[];
 extern struct mutex bch_register_lock;
 extern struct list_head bch_cache_sets;
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ static void do_journal_discard(struct ca
 
 		closure_get(&ca->set->cl);
 		INIT_WORK(&ja->discard_work, journal_discard_work);
-		schedule_work(&ja->discard_work);
+		queue_work(bch_journal_wq, &ja->discard_work);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ static void journal_write_done(struct cl
 		: &j->w[0];
 
 	__closure_wake_up(&w->wait);
-	continue_at_nobarrier(cl, journal_write, system_wq);
+	continue_at_nobarrier(cl, journal_write, bch_journal_wq);
 }
 
 static void journal_write_unlock(struct closure *cl)
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ static void journal_write_unlocked(struc
 		spin_unlock(&c->journal.lock);
 
 		btree_flush_write(c);
-		continue_at(cl, journal_write, system_wq);
+		continue_at(cl, journal_write, bch_journal_wq);
 		return;
 	}
 
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ static int bcache_major;
 static DEFINE_IDA(bcache_minor);
 static wait_queue_head_t unregister_wait;
 struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
+struct workqueue_struct *bch_journal_wq;
 
 #define BTREE_MAX_PAGES		(256 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE)
 
@@ -2112,6 +2113,9 @@ static void bcache_exit(void)
 		kobject_put(bcache_kobj);
 	if (bcache_wq)
 		destroy_workqueue(bcache_wq);
+	if (bch_journal_wq)
+		destroy_workqueue(bch_journal_wq);
+
 	if (bcache_major)
 		unregister_blkdev(bcache_major, "bcache");
 	unregister_reboot_notifier(&reboot);
@@ -2142,6 +2146,10 @@ static int __init bcache_init(void)
 	if (!bcache_wq)
 		goto err;
 
+	bch_journal_wq = alloc_workqueue("bch_journal", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
+	if (!bch_journal_wq)
+		goto err;
+
 	bcache_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("bcache", fs_kobj);
 	if (!bcache_kobj)
 		goto err;