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null_blk: Fix scheduling in atomic with zoned mode

Message ID 20201106110141.5887-1-damien.lemoal@wdc.com (mailing list archive)
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Series null_blk: Fix scheduling in atomic with zoned mode | expand

Commit Message

Damien Le Moal Nov. 6, 2020, 11:01 a.m. UTC
Commit aa1c09cb65e2 ("null_blk: Fix locking in zoned mode") changed
zone locking to using the potentially sleeping wait_on_bit_io()
function. This is acceptable when memory backing is enabled as the
device queue is in that case marked as blocking, but this triggers a
scheduling while in atomic context with memory backing disabled.

Fix this by relying solely on the device zone spinlock for zone
information protection without temporarily releasing this lock around
null_process_cmd() execution in null_zone_write(). This is OK to do
since when memory backing is disabled, command processing does not
block and the memory backing lock nullb->lock is unused. This solution
avoids the overhead of having to mark a zoned null_blk device queue as
blocking when memory backing is unused.

This patch also adds comments to the zone locking code to explain the
unusual locking scheme.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Fixes: aa1c09cb65e2 ("null_blk: Fix locking in zoned mode")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
---
 drivers/block/null_blk.h       |  2 +-
 drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Nov. 6, 2020, 1:55 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 08:01:41PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Commit aa1c09cb65e2 ("null_blk: Fix locking in zoned mode") changed
> zone locking to using the potentially sleeping wait_on_bit_io()
> function. This is acceptable when memory backing is enabled as the
> device queue is in that case marked as blocking, but this triggers a
> scheduling while in atomic context with memory backing disabled.
> 
> Fix this by relying solely on the device zone spinlock for zone
> information protection without temporarily releasing this lock around
> null_process_cmd() execution in null_zone_write(). This is OK to do
> since when memory backing is disabled, command processing does not
> block and the memory backing lock nullb->lock is unused. This solution
> avoids the overhead of having to mark a zoned null_blk device queue as
> blocking when memory backing is unused.
> 
> This patch also adds comments to the zone locking code to explain the
> unusual locking scheme.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Fixes: aa1c09cb65e2 ("null_blk: Fix locking in zoned mode")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/null_blk.h       |  2 +-
>  drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.h b/drivers/block/null_blk.h
> index cfd00ad40355..c24d9b5ad81a 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/null_blk.h
> +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.h
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct nullb_device {
>  	unsigned int nr_zones_closed;
>  	struct blk_zone *zones;
>  	sector_t zone_size_sects;
> -	spinlock_t zone_dev_lock;
> +	spinlock_t zone_lock;
>  	unsigned long *zone_locks;
>  
>  	unsigned long size; /* device size in MB */
> diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c b/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
> index 8775acbb4f8f..beb34b4f76b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
> @@ -46,11 +46,20 @@ int null_init_zoned_dev(struct nullb_device *dev, struct request_queue *q)
>  	if (!dev->zones)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
> -	dev->zone_locks = bitmap_zalloc(dev->nr_zones, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!dev->zone_locks) {
> -		kvfree(dev->zones);
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	/*
> +	 * With memory backing, the zone_lock spinlock needs to be temporarily
> +	 * released to avoid scheduling in atomic context. To guarantee zone
> +	 * information protection, use a bitmap to lock zones with
> +	 * wait_on_bit_lock_io(). Sleeping on the lock is OK as memory backing
> +	 * implies that the queue is marked with BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING.
> +	 */
> +	spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_lock);
> +	if (dev->memory_backed) {
> +		dev->zone_locks = bitmap_zalloc(dev->nr_zones, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!dev->zone_locks) {
> +			kvfree(dev->zones);
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	if (dev->zone_nr_conv >= dev->nr_zones) {
> @@ -137,12 +146,17 @@ void null_free_zoned_dev(struct nullb_device *dev)
>  
>  static inline void null_lock_zone(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int zno)
>  {
> -	wait_on_bit_lock_io(dev->zone_locks, zno, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
> +		wait_on_bit_lock_io(dev->zone_locks, zno, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +	spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
>  }
>  
>  static inline void null_unlock_zone(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int zno)
>  {
> -	clear_and_wake_up_bit(zno, dev->zone_locks);
> +	spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
> +
> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
> +		clear_and_wake_up_bit(zno, dev->zone_locks);
>  }
>  
>  int null_report_zones(struct gendisk *disk, sector_t sector,
> @@ -322,7 +336,6 @@ static blk_status_t null_zone_write(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, sector_t sector,
>  		return null_process_cmd(cmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, sector, nr_sectors);
>  
>  	null_lock_zone(dev, zno);
> -	spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
>  
>  	switch (zone->cond) {
>  	case BLK_ZONE_COND_FULL:
> @@ -375,9 +388,17 @@ static blk_status_t null_zone_write(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, sector_t sector,
>  	if (zone->cond != BLK_ZONE_COND_EXP_OPEN)
>  		zone->cond = BLK_ZONE_COND_IMP_OPEN;
>  
> -	spin_unlock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
> +	/*
> +	 * Memory backing allocation may sleep: release the zone_lock spinlock
> +	 * to avoid scheduling in atomic context. Zone operation atomicity is
> +	 * still guaranteed through the zone_locks bitmap.
> +	 */
> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
> +		spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
>  	ret = null_process_cmd(cmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, sector, nr_sectors);
> -	spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
> +		spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);

Do we actually need to take zone_lock at all for the memory_backed
case?  Should the !memory_backed just use a per-zone spinlock?
Damien Le Moal Nov. 6, 2020, 2:08 p.m. UTC | #2
On 2020/11/06 22:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 08:01:41PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> Commit aa1c09cb65e2 ("null_blk: Fix locking in zoned mode") changed
>> zone locking to using the potentially sleeping wait_on_bit_io()
>> function. This is acceptable when memory backing is enabled as the
>> device queue is in that case marked as blocking, but this triggers a
>> scheduling while in atomic context with memory backing disabled.
>>
>> Fix this by relying solely on the device zone spinlock for zone
>> information protection without temporarily releasing this lock around
>> null_process_cmd() execution in null_zone_write(). This is OK to do
>> since when memory backing is disabled, command processing does not
>> block and the memory backing lock nullb->lock is unused. This solution
>> avoids the overhead of having to mark a zoned null_blk device queue as
>> blocking when memory backing is unused.
>>
>> This patch also adds comments to the zone locking code to explain the
>> unusual locking scheme.
>>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>> Fixes: aa1c09cb65e2 ("null_blk: Fix locking in zoned mode")
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/block/null_blk.h       |  2 +-
>>  drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.h b/drivers/block/null_blk.h
>> index cfd00ad40355..c24d9b5ad81a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/block/null_blk.h
>> +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.h
>> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct nullb_device {
>>  	unsigned int nr_zones_closed;
>>  	struct blk_zone *zones;
>>  	sector_t zone_size_sects;
>> -	spinlock_t zone_dev_lock;
>> +	spinlock_t zone_lock;
>>  	unsigned long *zone_locks;
>>  
>>  	unsigned long size; /* device size in MB */
>> diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c b/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
>> index 8775acbb4f8f..beb34b4f76b0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
>> +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
>> @@ -46,11 +46,20 @@ int null_init_zoned_dev(struct nullb_device *dev, struct request_queue *q)
>>  	if (!dev->zones)
>>  		return -ENOMEM;
>>  
>> -	spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
>> -	dev->zone_locks = bitmap_zalloc(dev->nr_zones, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -	if (!dev->zone_locks) {
>> -		kvfree(dev->zones);
>> -		return -ENOMEM;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * With memory backing, the zone_lock spinlock needs to be temporarily
>> +	 * released to avoid scheduling in atomic context. To guarantee zone
>> +	 * information protection, use a bitmap to lock zones with
>> +	 * wait_on_bit_lock_io(). Sleeping on the lock is OK as memory backing
>> +	 * implies that the queue is marked with BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING.
>> +	 */
>> +	spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_lock);
>> +	if (dev->memory_backed) {
>> +		dev->zone_locks = bitmap_zalloc(dev->nr_zones, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +		if (!dev->zone_locks) {
>> +			kvfree(dev->zones);
>> +			return -ENOMEM;
>> +		}
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	if (dev->zone_nr_conv >= dev->nr_zones) {
>> @@ -137,12 +146,17 @@ void null_free_zoned_dev(struct nullb_device *dev)
>>  
>>  static inline void null_lock_zone(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int zno)
>>  {
>> -	wait_on_bit_lock_io(dev->zone_locks, zno, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
>> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
>> +		wait_on_bit_lock_io(dev->zone_locks, zno, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
>> +	spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
>>  }
>>  
>>  static inline void null_unlock_zone(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int zno)
>>  {
>> -	clear_and_wake_up_bit(zno, dev->zone_locks);
>> +	spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
>> +
>> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
>> +		clear_and_wake_up_bit(zno, dev->zone_locks);
>>  }
>>  
>>  int null_report_zones(struct gendisk *disk, sector_t sector,
>> @@ -322,7 +336,6 @@ static blk_status_t null_zone_write(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, sector_t sector,
>>  		return null_process_cmd(cmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, sector, nr_sectors);
>>  
>>  	null_lock_zone(dev, zno);
>> -	spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
>>  
>>  	switch (zone->cond) {
>>  	case BLK_ZONE_COND_FULL:
>> @@ -375,9 +388,17 @@ static blk_status_t null_zone_write(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, sector_t sector,
>>  	if (zone->cond != BLK_ZONE_COND_EXP_OPEN)
>>  		zone->cond = BLK_ZONE_COND_IMP_OPEN;
>>  
>> -	spin_unlock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Memory backing allocation may sleep: release the zone_lock spinlock
>> +	 * to avoid scheduling in atomic context. Zone operation atomicity is
>> +	 * still guaranteed through the zone_locks bitmap.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
>> +		spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
>>  	ret = null_process_cmd(cmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, sector, nr_sectors);
>> -	spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
>> +	if (dev->memory_backed)
>> +		spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
> 
> Do we actually need to take zone_lock at all for the memory_backed
> case?  Should the !memory_backed just use a per-zone spinlock?

For your first question, yes we do: the per zone wait_on_bit_io() lock serialize
zone operations per zone but we need a device level zone lock for protecting the
counters (imp open, exp open and closed) for zone resources management.

For the !memory backed case, I wondered the same but decided to just reuse the
device zone spinlock as the single lock for all zones. Not sure if a per zone
spinlock would improve performance by that much given that the lock time frame
becomes really tiny without the memory copy. I will try that to see how
performance changes.

That said, I would prefer to add such change as a different patch for next cycle
and keep this patch as a bug fix though.
Christoph Hellwig Nov. 6, 2020, 2:19 p.m. UTC | #3
Looks good for now:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

although I think we should address the global lock for the
!memory_backed case rather sooner than later.
Damien Le Moal Nov. 6, 2020, 2:24 p.m. UTC | #4
On 2020/11/06 23:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Looks good for now:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> although I think we should address the global lock for the
> !memory_backed case rather sooner than later.

OK. I will send something next week.
Jens Axboe Nov. 6, 2020, 4:37 p.m. UTC | #5
On 11/6/20 4:01 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> Commit aa1c09cb65e2 ("null_blk: Fix locking in zoned mode") changed
> zone locking to using the potentially sleeping wait_on_bit_io()
> function. This is acceptable when memory backing is enabled as the
> device queue is in that case marked as blocking, but this triggers a
> scheduling while in atomic context with memory backing disabled.
> 
> Fix this by relying solely on the device zone spinlock for zone
> information protection without temporarily releasing this lock around
> null_process_cmd() execution in null_zone_write(). This is OK to do
> since when memory backing is disabled, command processing does not
> block and the memory backing lock nullb->lock is unused. This solution
> avoids the overhead of having to mark a zoned null_blk device queue as
> blocking when memory backing is unused.
> 
> This patch also adds comments to the zone locking code to explain the
> unusual locking scheme.

Applied for 5.10, though I do agree that the locking for non-memory
backed should go. The whole point of null_blk is to be able to
benchmark the underlying layers, and if we end up having null_blk
be the limiting factor, then it's pointless.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.h b/drivers/block/null_blk.h
index cfd00ad40355..c24d9b5ad81a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk.h
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@  struct nullb_device {
 	unsigned int nr_zones_closed;
 	struct blk_zone *zones;
 	sector_t zone_size_sects;
-	spinlock_t zone_dev_lock;
+	spinlock_t zone_lock;
 	unsigned long *zone_locks;
 
 	unsigned long size; /* device size in MB */
diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c b/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
index 8775acbb4f8f..beb34b4f76b0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c
@@ -46,11 +46,20 @@  int null_init_zoned_dev(struct nullb_device *dev, struct request_queue *q)
 	if (!dev->zones)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
-	dev->zone_locks = bitmap_zalloc(dev->nr_zones, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!dev->zone_locks) {
-		kvfree(dev->zones);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	/*
+	 * With memory backing, the zone_lock spinlock needs to be temporarily
+	 * released to avoid scheduling in atomic context. To guarantee zone
+	 * information protection, use a bitmap to lock zones with
+	 * wait_on_bit_lock_io(). Sleeping on the lock is OK as memory backing
+	 * implies that the queue is marked with BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING.
+	 */
+	spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_lock);
+	if (dev->memory_backed) {
+		dev->zone_locks = bitmap_zalloc(dev->nr_zones, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!dev->zone_locks) {
+			kvfree(dev->zones);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (dev->zone_nr_conv >= dev->nr_zones) {
@@ -137,12 +146,17 @@  void null_free_zoned_dev(struct nullb_device *dev)
 
 static inline void null_lock_zone(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int zno)
 {
-	wait_on_bit_lock_io(dev->zone_locks, zno, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+	if (dev->memory_backed)
+		wait_on_bit_lock_io(dev->zone_locks, zno, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+	spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
 }
 
 static inline void null_unlock_zone(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int zno)
 {
-	clear_and_wake_up_bit(zno, dev->zone_locks);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
+
+	if (dev->memory_backed)
+		clear_and_wake_up_bit(zno, dev->zone_locks);
 }
 
 int null_report_zones(struct gendisk *disk, sector_t sector,
@@ -322,7 +336,6 @@  static blk_status_t null_zone_write(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, sector_t sector,
 		return null_process_cmd(cmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, sector, nr_sectors);
 
 	null_lock_zone(dev, zno);
-	spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
 
 	switch (zone->cond) {
 	case BLK_ZONE_COND_FULL:
@@ -375,9 +388,17 @@  static blk_status_t null_zone_write(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, sector_t sector,
 	if (zone->cond != BLK_ZONE_COND_EXP_OPEN)
 		zone->cond = BLK_ZONE_COND_IMP_OPEN;
 
-	spin_unlock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
+	/*
+	 * Memory backing allocation may sleep: release the zone_lock spinlock
+	 * to avoid scheduling in atomic context. Zone operation atomicity is
+	 * still guaranteed through the zone_locks bitmap.
+	 */
+	if (dev->memory_backed)
+		spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
 	ret = null_process_cmd(cmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, sector, nr_sectors);
-	spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
+	if (dev->memory_backed)
+		spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
+
 	if (ret != BLK_STS_OK)
 		goto unlock;
 
@@ -392,7 +413,6 @@  static blk_status_t null_zone_write(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, sector_t sector,
 	ret = BLK_STS_OK;
 
 unlock:
-	spin_unlock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
 	null_unlock_zone(dev, zno);
 
 	return ret;
@@ -516,9 +536,7 @@  static blk_status_t null_zone_mgmt(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, enum req_opf op,
 			null_lock_zone(dev, i);
 			zone = &dev->zones[i];
 			if (zone->cond != BLK_ZONE_COND_EMPTY) {
-				spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
 				null_reset_zone(dev, zone);
-				spin_unlock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
 				trace_nullb_zone_op(cmd, i, zone->cond);
 			}
 			null_unlock_zone(dev, i);
@@ -530,7 +548,6 @@  static blk_status_t null_zone_mgmt(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, enum req_opf op,
 	zone = &dev->zones[zone_no];
 
 	null_lock_zone(dev, zone_no);
-	spin_lock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
 
 	switch (op) {
 	case REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET:
@@ -550,8 +567,6 @@  static blk_status_t null_zone_mgmt(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, enum req_opf op,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock(&dev->zone_dev_lock);
-
 	if (ret == BLK_STS_OK)
 		trace_nullb_zone_op(cmd, zone_no, zone->cond);