linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next 1/8] md/raid10: prevent soft lockup while flush writes

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:16:34 +0800
From:   Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
To:     Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc:     neilb@...e.de, akpm@...l.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhang@...wei.com,
        yangerkun@...wei.com, "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 1/8] md/raid10: prevent soft lockup while flush
 writes

Hi,

在 2023/04/25 8:23, Song Liu 写道:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 4:31 AM Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>>
>> Currently, there is no limit for raid1/raid10 plugged bio. While flushing
>> writes, raid1 has cond_resched() while raid10 doesn't, and too many
>> writes can cause soft lockup.
>>
>> Follow up soft lockup can be triggered easily with writeback test for
>> raid10 with ramdisks:
>>
>> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#10 stuck for 27s! [md0_raid10:1293]
>> Call Trace:
>>   <TASK>
>>   call_rcu+0x16/0x20
>>   put_object+0x41/0x80
>>   __delete_object+0x50/0x90
>>   delete_object_full+0x2b/0x40
>>   kmemleak_free+0x46/0xa0
>>   slab_free_freelist_hook.constprop.0+0xed/0x1a0
>>   kmem_cache_free+0xfd/0x300
>>   mempool_free_slab+0x1f/0x30
>>   mempool_free+0x3a/0x100
>>   bio_free+0x59/0x80
>>   bio_put+0xcf/0x2c0
>>   free_r10bio+0xbf/0xf0
>>   raid_end_bio_io+0x78/0xb0
>>   one_write_done+0x8a/0xa0
>>   raid10_end_write_request+0x1b4/0x430
>>   bio_endio+0x175/0x320
>>   brd_submit_bio+0x3b9/0x9b7 [brd]
>>   __submit_bio+0x69/0xe0
>>   submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x1e6/0x5a0
>>   submit_bio_noacct+0x38c/0x7e0
>>   flush_pending_writes+0xf0/0x240
>>   raid10d+0xac/0x1ed0
> 
> Is it possible to trigger this with a mdadm test?
> 

The test I mentioned in patch 8 can trigger this problem reliablity, so
I this add a new test can achieve this.

Thanks,
Kuai
> Thanks,
> Song
> 
>>
>> This patch fix the problem by adding cond_resched() to raid10 like what
>> raid1 did.
>>
>> Note that unlimited plugged bio still need to be optimized because in
>> the case of writeback lots of dirty pages, this will take lots of memory
>> and io latecy is quite bad.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/md/raid10.c | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
>> index 6590aa49598c..a116b7c9d9f3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
>> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
>> @@ -921,6 +921,7 @@ static void flush_pending_writes(struct r10conf *conf)
>>                          else
>>                                  submit_bio_noacct(bio);
>>                          bio = next;
>> +                       cond_resched();
>>                  }
>>                  blk_finish_plug(&plug);
>>          } else
>> @@ -1140,6 +1141,7 @@ static void raid10_unplug(struct blk_plug_cb *cb, bool from_schedule)
>>                  else
>>                          submit_bio_noacct(bio);
>>                  bio = next;
>> +               cond_resched();
>>          }
>>          kfree(plug);
>>   }
>> --
>> 2.39.2
>>
> .
>