linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] blk-cgroup: Use cond

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:41:33 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>, tj@...nel.org
Cc:     joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blk-cgroup: Use cond_resched() when destroy blkgs

On 1/27/21 8:22 PM, Baolin Wang wrote:
> On !PREEMPT kernel, we can get below softlockup when doing stress
> testing with creating and destroying block cgroup repeatly. The
> reason is it may take a long time to acquire the queue's lock in
> the loop of blkcg_destroy_blkgs(), or the system can accumulate a
> huge number of blkgs in pathological cases. We can add a need_resched()
> check on each loop and release locks and do cond_resched() if true
> to avoid this issue, since the blkcg_destroy_blkgs() is not called
> from atomic contexts.
> 
> [ 4757.010308] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#11 stuck for 94s!
> [ 4757.010698] Call trace:
> [ 4757.010700]  blkcg_destroy_blkgs+0x68/0x150
> [ 4757.010701]  cgwb_release_workfn+0x104/0x158
> [ 4757.010702]  process_one_work+0x1bc/0x3f0
> [ 4757.010704]  worker_thread+0x164/0x468
> [ 4757.010705]  kthread+0x108/0x138

Kind of ugly with the two clauses for dropping the blkcg lock, one
being a cpu_relax() and the other a resched. How about something
like this:


diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index 031114d454a6..4221a1539391 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -1016,6 +1016,8 @@ static void blkcg_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
  */
 void blkcg_destroy_blkgs(struct blkcg *blkcg)
 {
+	might_sleep();
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&blkcg->lock);
 
 	while (!hlist_empty(&blkcg->blkg_list)) {
@@ -1023,14 +1025,20 @@ void blkcg_destroy_blkgs(struct blkcg *blkcg)
 						struct blkcg_gq, blkcg_node);
 		struct request_queue *q = blkg->q;
 
-		if (spin_trylock(&q->queue_lock)) {
-			blkg_destroy(blkg);
-			spin_unlock(&q->queue_lock);
-		} else {
+		if (need_resched() || !spin_trylock(&q->queue_lock)) {
+			/*
+			 * Given that the system can accumulate a huge number
+			 * of blkgs in pathological cases, check to see if we
+			 * need to rescheduling to avoid softlockup.
+			 */
 			spin_unlock_irq(&blkcg->lock);
-			cpu_relax();
+			cond_resched();
 			spin_lock_irq(&blkcg->lock);
+			continue;
 		}
+
+		blkg_destroy(blkg);
+		spin_unlock(&q->queue_lock);
 	}
 
 	spin_unlock_irq(&blkcg->lock);

-- 
Jens Axboe