[ Upstream commit d377535405686f735b90a8ad4ba269484cd7c96e ]
mempool_init()/bioset_init() require that the mempools/biosets be zeroed
first; they probably should not _require_ this, but not allocating those
structs with kzalloc is a fairly nonsensical thing to do (calling
mempool_exit()/bioset_exit() on an uninitialized mempool/bioset is legal
and safe, but only works if said memory was zeroed.)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit b21555786f18cd77f2311ad89074533109ae3ffa ]
Commit 721b1d98fb517a ("dm snapshot: Fix excessive memory usage and
workqueue stalls") introduced a semaphore to limit the maximum number of
in-flight kcopyd (COW) jobs.
The implementation of this throttling mechanism is prone to a deadlock:
1. One or more threads write to the origin device causing COW, which is
performed by kcopyd.
2. At some point some of these threads might reach the s->cow_count
semaphore limit and block in down(&s->cow_count), holding a read lock
on _origins_lock.
3. Someone tries to acquire a write lock on _origins_lock, e.g.,
snapshot_ctr(), which blocks because the threads at step (2) already
hold a read lock on it.
4. A COW operation completes and kcopyd runs dm-snapshot's completion
callback, which ends up calling pending_complete().
pending_complete() tries to resubmit any deferred origin bios. This
requires acquiring a read lock on _origins_lock, which blocks.
This happens because the read-write semaphore implementation gives
priority to writers, meaning that as soon as a writer tries to enter
the critical section, no readers will be allowed in, until all
writers have completed their work.
So, pending_complete() waits for the writer at step (3) to acquire
and release the lock. This writer waits for the readers at step (2)
to release the read lock and those readers wait for
pending_complete() (the kcopyd thread) to signal the s->cow_count
semaphore: DEADLOCK.
The above was thoroughly analyzed and documented by Nikos Tsironis as
part of his initial proposal for fixing this deadlock, see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2019-October/msg00001.html
Fix this deadlock by reworking COW throttling so that it waits without
holding any locks. Add a variable 'in_progress' that counts how many
kcopyd jobs are running. A function wait_for_in_progress() will sleep if
'in_progress' is over the limit. It drops _origins_lock in order to
avoid the deadlock.
Reported-by: Guruswamy Basavaiah <guru2018@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Tested-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Fixes: 721b1d98fb51 ("dm snapshot: Fix excessive memory usage and workqueue stalls")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.0+
Depends-on: 4a3f111a73a8c ("dm snapshot: introduce account_start_copy() and account_end_copy()")
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit a2f83e8b0c82c9500421a26c49eb198b25fcdea3 ]
This simple refactoring moves code for modifying the semaphore cow_count
into separate functions to prepare for changes that will extend these
methods to provide for a more sophisticated mechanism for COW
throttling.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit ae1093be5a0ef997833e200a0dafb9ed0b1ff4fe ]
The rw_semaphore is acquired for read only in two places, neither is
performance-critical. So replace it with a mutex -- which is more
efficient.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
