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Message-ID: <20190729152957.GA21958@cmpxchg.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:29:57 -0400
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: surenb@...gle.com, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
dennis@...nel.org, axboe@...nel.dk, lizefan@...wei.com,
tj@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] psi: get poll_work to run when calling poll syscall next
time
Hi Jason,
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 02:45:39PM +0800, Jason Xing wrote:
> Only when calling the poll syscall the first time can user
> receive POLLPRI correctly. After that, user always fails to
> acquire the event signal.
>
> Reproduce case:
> 1. Get the monitor code in Documentation/accounting/psi.txt
> 2. Run it, and wait for the event triggered.
> 3. Kill and restart the process.
>
> If the user doesn't kill the monitor process, it seems the
> poll_work works fine. After killing and restarting the monitor,
> the poll_work in kernel will never run again due to the wrong
> value of poll_scheduled. Therefore, we should reset the value
> as group_init() does after the last trigger is destroyed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@...ux.alibaba.com>
Good catch, and the fix makes sense to me. However, it was a bit hard
to understand how the problem occurs:
> ---
> kernel/sched/psi.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> index 7acc632..66f4385 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> @@ -1133,6 +1133,12 @@ static void psi_trigger_destroy(struct kref *ref)
> if (kworker_to_destroy) {
> kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(&group->poll_work);
> kthread_destroy_worker(kworker_to_destroy);
> + /*
> + * The poll_work should have the chance to be put into the
> + * kthread queue when calling poll syscall next time. So
> + * reset poll_scheduled to zero as group_init() does
> + */
> + atomic_set(&group->poll_scheduled, 0);
The question is why we can end up with poll_scheduled = 1 but the work
not running (which would reset it to 0). And the answer is because the
scheduling side sees group->poll_kworker under RCU protection and then
schedules it, but here we cancel the work and destroy the worker. The
cancel needs to pair with resetting the poll_scheduled flag:
if (kworker_to_destroy) {
/*
* After the RCU grace period has expired, the worker
* can no longer be found through group->poll_kworker.
* But it might have been already scheduled before
* that - deschedule it cleanly before destroying it.
*/
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(&group->poll_work);
atomic_set(&group->poll_scheduled, 0);
kthread_destroy_worker(kworker_to_destroy);
}
With that change, please add:
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Thanks!
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