linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] fs-writeback: writeback_sb_inodes：Recalculate 'wrote' according skipped pages

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Date:   Thu, 19 May 2022 14:26:56 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, hch@....de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        yukuai3@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] fs-writeback: writeback_sb_inodes：Recalculate 'wrote' according skipped pages

On Tue 10-05-22 21:38:05, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> Commit 505a666ee3fc ("writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and
> writeback_inodes_wb()") has us holding a plug during wb_writeback, which
> may cause a potential ABBA dead lock:
> 
>     wb_writeback		fat_file_fsync
> blk_start_plug(&plug)
> for (;;) {
>   iter i-1: some reqs have been added into plug->mq_list  // LOCK A
>   iter i:
>     progress = __writeback_inodes_wb(wb, work)
>     . writeback_sb_inodes // fat's bdev
>     .   __writeback_single_inode
>     .   . generic_writepages
>     .   .   __block_write_full_page
>     .   .   . . 	    __generic_file_fsync
>     .   .   . . 	      sync_inode_metadata
>     .   .   . . 	        writeback_single_inode
>     .   .   . . 		  __writeback_single_inode
>     .   .   . . 		    fat_write_inode
>     .   .   . . 		      __fat_write_inode
>     .   .   . . 		        sync_dirty_buffer	// fat's bdev
>     .   .   . . 			  lock_buffer(bh)	// LOCK B
>     .   .   . . 			    submit_bh
>     .   .   . . 			      blk_mq_get_tag	// LOCK A
>     .   .   . trylock_buffer(bh)  // LOCK B
>     .   .   .   redirty_page_for_writepage
>     .   .   .     wbc->pages_skipped++
>     .   .   --wbc->nr_to_write
>     .   wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write  // wrote > 0
>     .   requeue_inode
>     .     redirty_tail_locked
>     if (progress)    // progress > 0
>       continue;
>   iter i+1:
>       queue_io
>       // similar process with iter i, infinite for-loop !
> }
> blk_finish_plug(&plug)   // flush plug won't be called
> 
> Above process triggers a hungtask like:
> [  399.044861] INFO: task bb:2607 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
> [  399.046824]       Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1-00005-gefae4d9eb6a2-dirty
> [  399.051539] task:bb              state:D stack:    0 pid: 2607 ppid:
> 2426 flags:0x00004000
> [  399.051556] Call Trace:
> [  399.051570]  __schedule+0x480/0x1050
> [  399.051592]  schedule+0x92/0x1a0
> [  399.051602]  io_schedule+0x22/0x50
> [  399.051613]  blk_mq_get_tag+0x1d3/0x3c0
> [  399.051640]  __blk_mq_alloc_requests+0x21d/0x3f0
> [  399.051657]  blk_mq_submit_bio+0x68d/0xca0
> [  399.051674]  __submit_bio+0x1b5/0x2d0
> [  399.051708]  submit_bio_noacct+0x34e/0x720
> [  399.051718]  submit_bio+0x3b/0x150
> [  399.051725]  submit_bh_wbc+0x161/0x230
> [  399.051734]  __sync_dirty_buffer+0xd1/0x420
> [  399.051744]  sync_dirty_buffer+0x17/0x20
> [  399.051750]  __fat_write_inode+0x289/0x310
> [  399.051766]  fat_write_inode+0x2a/0xa0
> [  399.051783]  __writeback_single_inode+0x53c/0x6f0
> [  399.051795]  writeback_single_inode+0x145/0x200
> [  399.051803]  sync_inode_metadata+0x45/0x70
> [  399.051856]  __generic_file_fsync+0xa3/0x150
> [  399.051880]  fat_file_fsync+0x1d/0x80
> [  399.051895]  vfs_fsync_range+0x40/0xb0
> [  399.051929]  __x64_sys_fsync+0x18/0x30
> 
> In my test, 'need_resched()' (which is imported by 590dca3a71 "fs-writeback:
> unplug before cond_resched in writeback_sb_inodes") in function
> 'writeback_sb_inodes()' seldom comes true, unless cond_resched() is deleted
> from write_cache_pages().
> 
> Fix it by correcting wrote number according number of skipped pages
> in writeback_sb_inodes().
> 
> Goto Link to find a reproducer.
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215837
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.3
> Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>

Indeed, subtle. The fix looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR