linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: don't allow the same type rq

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:50:32 +0800
From:   hanjinke <hanjinke.666@...edance.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "open list:BLOCK LAYER" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: don't allow the same type rq_qos add more than
 once

Thanks for your review. I have saw this review just after the send of 
patch v2

在 2022/7/19 下午2:53, Muchun Song 写道:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:37 PM Jinke Han <hanjinke.666@...edance.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: hanjinke <hanjinke.666@...edance.com>
>>
>> In our test of iocost, we encounttered some list add/del corrutions of
>> inner_walk list in ioc_timer_fn.
>> The resean can be descripted as follow:
>>
>> cpu 0                                           cpu 1
>> ioc_qos_write                                   ioc_qos_write
>>
>> ioc = q_to_ioc(bdev_get_queue(bdev));
>> if (!ioc) {
>>          ioc = kzalloc();                        ioc = q_to_ioc(bdev_get_queue(bdev));
>>                                                          if (!ioc) {
>>                                                                  ioc = kzalloc();
>>                                                                  ...
>>                                                                  rq_qos_add(q, rqos);
>>                                                           }
>>          ...
>>          rq_qos_add(q, rqos);
>>          ...
>> }
>>
>> When the io.cost.qos file is written by two cpu concurrently, rq_qos may
>> be added to one disk twice. In that case, there will be two iocs enabled
>> and running on one disk. They own different iocgs on their active list.
>> In the ioc_timer_fn function, because of the iocgs from two ioc have the
>> same root iocg, the root iocg's walk_list may be overwritten by each
>> other and this lead to list add/del corrutions in building or destorying
>> the inner_walk list.
>>
>> And so far, the blk-rq-qos framework works in case that one instance for
>> one type rq_qos per queue by default. This patch make this explicit and
>> also fix the crash above.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: hanjinke <hanjinke.666@...edance.com>
> 
> The change LGTM. Maybe it is better to add a Fixes tag here so that
> others can easily know what Linux versions should be backported.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
> 
> Thanks.