linux-kernel - Re: [bisected] RAID1 direct IO redirecting sector loop since 6.0

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Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2022 07:57:03 +0300
From:   Dmitrii Tcvetkov <me@...sh.org>
To:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bisected] RAID1 direct IO redirecting sector loop since 6.0

On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 01:08:26 +0300
Dmitrii Tcvetkov <me@...sh.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 15:18:20 -0600
> Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org> wrote:
> > Oh shoot, sorry about that! Should have been this:
> > 
> > @@ -703,6 +702,7 @@ void disk_stack_limits(struct gendisk *disk,
> > struct block_device *bdev, pr_notice("%s: Warning: Device %pg is
> > misaligned\n", disk->disk_name, bdev);
> > 
> > +       blk_queue_dma_alignment(t, queue_logical_block_size(t) - 1);
> >         disk_update_readahead(disk);
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(disk_stack_limits);
> 
> This didn't change behaviour, second guest still hangs.

Managed to write a program in C, which allows to reproduce this without
Qemu.

# cat test.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>                    
#include <stdio.h>    
#include <fcntl.h>    
#include <string.h>   
#include <errno.h>    
#include <pthread.h>  
                                               
#define THREADCOUNT 8 
#define PATHLIMIT 256 
#define BUFSIZE 4096
                                               
#define LV1 "/dev/lvmraid/zfs"
#define LV2 "/dev/lvmraid/wrk"           
                                                                                               
struct params {  
  char path[PATHLIMIT];
  char buffer[BUFSIZE];
};   
                                               
                                               
struct params alloc_params(char *path) {     
  struct params out;
                                                                                               
  if (strlen(path) >= PATHLIMIT) {
    printf("supplied path too long\n");
    abort();
  }
                                               
  strncpy(&out.path[0], path, PATHLIMIT);
  memset(&out.buffer, 0, BUFSIZE);
  return out;
}

void *worker(void *data) {
  struct params *p = (struct params *) data;
  int counter = 0;
  ssize_t n = 0;
   
  int fd = open(p->path, O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT|O_CLOEXEC);
  if (fd == -1) return NULL;
   
  while (counter < 2048) {
    pread(fd, p->buffer, BUFSIZE, 0);
    counter++;
  }

  close(fd);
  return NULL;
}

int main(void) {
  struct params parray[THREADCOUNT] = {
    alloc_params(LV1),
    alloc_params(LV1),
    alloc_params(LV1),
    alloc_params(LV1),
    alloc_params(LV2),
    alloc_params(LV2),
    alloc_params(LV2),
    alloc_params(LV2),
  };
  pthread_t threads[THREADCOUNT];

  for (int i = 0; i < THREADCOUNT; i++) {
    int ret = pthread_create(&threads[i], NULL, worker, (void *)
  &parray[i]); if (ret!=0) {
      printf("failed to create thread: %d", ret);
      abort();
    }
  }
  for (int i = 0; i < THREADCOUNT; i++) {
    int ret = pthread_join(threads[i], NULL);
    if(ret!=0) {
      printf("failed to join thread: %d", ret); 
      abort();
    }
  }
   
  return 0;
}

# gcc -O2 -pthread test.c
# for i in $(seq 1 64); do ./a.out;done