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Tejun Heo
515d077ee3 blk-iolatency: Fix inflight count imbalances and IO hangs on offline
commit 8a177a36da upstream.

iolatency needs to track the number of inflight IOs per cgroup. As this
tracking can be expensive, it is disabled when no cgroup has iolatency
configured for the device. To ensure that the inflight counters stay
balanced, iolatency_set_limit() freezes the request_queue while manipulating
the enabled counter, which ensures that no IO is in flight and thus all
counters are zero.

Unfortunately, iolatency_set_limit() isn't the only place where the enabled
counter is manipulated. iolatency_pd_offline() can also dec the counter and
trigger disabling. As this disabling happens without freezing the q, this
can easily happen while some IOs are in flight and thus leak the counts.

This can be easily demonstrated by turning on iolatency on an one empty
cgroup while IOs are in flight in other cgroups and then removing the
cgroup. Note that iolatency shouldn't have been enabled elsewhere in the
system to ensure that removing the cgroup disables iolatency for the whole
device.

The following keeps flipping on and off iolatency on sda:

  echo +io > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
  while true; do
      mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/test
      echo '8:0 target=100000' > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/io.latency
      sleep 1
      rmdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
      sleep 1
  done

and there's concurrent fio generating direct rand reads:

  fio --name test --filename=/dev/sda --direct=1 --rw=randread \
      --runtime=600 --time_based --iodepth=256 --numjobs=4 --bs=4k

while monitoring with the following drgn script:

  while True:
    for css in css_for_each_descendant_pre(prog['blkcg_root'].css.address_of_()):
        for pos in hlist_for_each(container_of(css, 'struct blkcg', 'css').blkg_list):
            blkg = container_of(pos, 'struct blkcg_gq', 'blkcg_node')
            pd = blkg.pd[prog['blkcg_policy_iolatency'].plid]
            if pd.value_() == 0:
                continue
            iolat = container_of(pd, 'struct iolatency_grp', 'pd')
            inflight = iolat.rq_wait.inflight.counter.value_()
            if inflight:
                print(f'inflight={inflight} {disk_name(blkg.q.disk).decode("utf-8")} '
                      f'{cgroup_path(css.cgroup).decode("utf-8")}')
    time.sleep(1)

The monitoring output looks like the following:

  inflight=1 sda /user.slice
  inflight=1 sda /user.slice
  ...
  inflight=14 sda /user.slice
  inflight=13 sda /user.slice
  inflight=17 sda /user.slice
  inflight=15 sda /user.slice
  inflight=18 sda /user.slice
  inflight=17 sda /user.slice
  inflight=20 sda /user.slice
  inflight=19 sda /user.slice <- fio stopped, inflight stuck at 19
  inflight=19 sda /user.slice
  inflight=19 sda /user.slice

If a cgroup with stuck inflight ends up getting throttled, the throttled IOs
will never get issued as there's no completion event to wake it up leading
to an indefinite hang.

This patch fixes the bug by unifying enable handling into a work item which
is automatically kicked off from iolatency_set_min_lat_nsec() which is
called from both iolatency_set_limit() and iolatency_pd_offline() paths.
Punting to a work item is necessary as iolatency_pd_offline() is called
under spinlocks while freezing a request_queue requires a sleepable context.

This also simplifies the code reducing LOC sans the comments and avoids the
unnecessary freezes which were happening whenever a cgroup's latency target
is newly set or cleared.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Fixes: 8c772a9bfc ("blk-iolatency: fix IO hang due to negative inflight counter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.0+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yn9ScX6Nx2qIiQQi@slm.duckdns.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-06-14 16:59:30 +02:00
Yu Kuai
76ab02d9b8 blk-iolatency: error out if blk_get_queue() failed in iolatency_set_limit()
[ Upstream commit 8d75d0eff6 ]

If queue is dying while iolatency_set_limit() is in progress,
blk_get_queue() won't increment the refcount of the queue. However,
blk_put_queue() will still decrement the refcount later, which will
cause the refcout to be unbalanced.

Thus error out in such case to fix the problem.

Fixes: 8c772a9bfc ("blk-iolatency: fix IO hang due to negative inflight counter")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210805124645.543797-1-yukuai3@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-08-12 13:19:40 +02:00
Dennis Zhou
178d1337a5 blk-iolatency: fix STS_AGAIN handling
[ Upstream commit c9b3007fec ]

The iolatency controller is based on rq_qos. It increments on
rq_qos_throttle() and decrements on either rq_qos_cleanup() or
rq_qos_done_bio(). a3fb01ba5a fixes the double accounting issue where
blk_mq_make_request() may call both rq_qos_cleanup() and
rq_qos_done_bio() on REQ_NO_WAIT. So checking STS_AGAIN prevents the
double decrement.

The above works upstream as the only way we can get STS_AGAIN is from
blk_mq_get_request() failing. The STS_AGAIN handling isn't a real
problem as bio_endio() skipping only happens on reserved tag allocation
failures which can only be caused by driver bugs and already triggers
WARN.

However, the fix creates a not so great dependency on how STS_AGAIN can
be propagated. Internally, we (Facebook) carry a patch that kills read
ahead if a cgroup is io congested or a fatal signal is pending. This
combined with chained bios progagate their bi_status to the parent is
not already set can can cause the parent bio to not clean up properly
even though it was successful. This consequently leaks the inflight
counter and can hang all IOs under that blkg.

To nip the adverse interaction early, this removes the rq_qos_cleanup()
callback in iolatency in favor of cleaning up always on the
rq_qos_done_bio() path.

Fixes: a3fb01ba5a ("blk-iolatency: only account submitted bios")
Debugged-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Debugged-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-09-16 08:21:41 +02:00
Liu Bo
5f33e81250 Blk-iolatency: warn on negative inflight IO counter
[ Upstream commit 391f552af2 ]

This is to catch any unexpected negative value of inflight IO counter.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-09-16 08:21:41 +02:00
Tejun Heo
73efdc5d7d blk-iolatency: clear use_delay when io.latency is set to zero
commit 5de0073fcd upstream.

If use_delay was non-zero when the latency target of a cgroup was set
to zero, it will stay stuck until io.latency is enabled on the cgroup
again.  This keeps readahead disabled for the cgroup impacting
performance negatively.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Fixes: d706751215 ("block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-26 09:14:30 +02:00
Dennis Zhou
3ae98dc2db blk-iolatency: only account submitted bios
[ Upstream commit a3fb01ba5a ]

As is, iolatency recognizes done_bio and cleanup as ending paths. If a
request is marked REQ_NOWAIT and fails to get a request, the bio is
cleaned up via rq_qos_cleanup() and ended in bio_wouldblock_error().
This results in underflowing the inflight counter. Fix this by only
accounting bios that were actually submitted.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-07-26 09:14:09 +02:00
Bart Van Assche
bde271d1ad blk-iolatency: #include "blk.h"
[ Upstream commit 373e915cd8 ]

This patch avoids that the following warning is reported when building
with W=1:

block/blk-iolatency.c:734:5: warning: no previous prototype for 'blk_iolatency_init' [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Fixes: d706751215 ("block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller") # v4.19
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-04-20 09:15:58 +02:00
Liu Bo
6d482bc569 blk-iolatency: fix IO hang due to negative inflight counter
[ Upstream commit 8c772a9bfc ]

Our test reported the following stack, and vmcore showed that
->inflight counter is -1.

[ffffc9003fcc38d0] __schedule at ffffffff8173d95d
[ffffc9003fcc3958] schedule at ffffffff8173de26
[ffffc9003fcc3970] io_schedule at ffffffff810bb6b6
[ffffc9003fcc3988] blkcg_iolatency_throttle at ffffffff813911cb
[ffffc9003fcc3a20] rq_qos_throttle at ffffffff813847f3
[ffffc9003fcc3a48] blk_mq_make_request at ffffffff8137468a
[ffffc9003fcc3b08] generic_make_request at ffffffff81368b49
[ffffc9003fcc3b68] submit_bio at ffffffff81368d7d
[ffffc9003fcc3bb8] ext4_io_submit at ffffffffa031be00 [ext4]
[ffffc9003fcc3c00] ext4_writepages at ffffffffa03163de [ext4]
[ffffc9003fcc3d68] do_writepages at ffffffff811c49ae
[ffffc9003fcc3d78] __filemap_fdatawrite_range at ffffffff811b6188
[ffffc9003fcc3e30] filemap_write_and_wait_range at ffffffff811b6301
[ffffc9003fcc3e60] ext4_sync_file at ffffffffa030cee8 [ext4]
[ffffc9003fcc3ea8] vfs_fsync_range at ffffffff8128594b
[ffffc9003fcc3ee8] do_fsync at ffffffff81285abd
[ffffc9003fcc3f18] sys_fsync at ffffffff81285d50
[ffffc9003fcc3f28] do_syscall_64 at ffffffff81003c04
[ffffc9003fcc3f50] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_swapgs at ffffffff81742b8e

The ->inflight counter may be negative (-1) if

1) blk-iolatency was disabled when the IO was issued,

2) blk-iolatency was enabled before this IO reached its endio,

3) the ->inflight counter is decreased from 0 to -1 in endio()

In fact the hang can be easily reproduced by the below script,

H=/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/
P=/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test

echo "+io" > $H/cgroup.subtree_control
mkdir -p $P

echo $$ > $P/cgroup.procs

xfs_io -f -d -c "pwrite 0 4k" /dev/sdg

echo "`cat /sys/block/sdg/dev` target=1000000" > $P/io.latency

xfs_io -f -d -c "pwrite 0 4k" /dev/sdg

This fixes the problem by freezing the queue so that while
enabling/disabling iolatency, there is no inflight rq running.

Note that quiesce_queue is not needed as this only updating iolatency
configuration about which dispatching request_queue doesn't care.

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-03-13 14:02:38 -07:00
Dennis Zhou (Facebook)
c480bcf97b block: make iolatency avg_lat exponentially decay
Currently, avg_lat is calculated by accumulating the mean of every
window in a long running cumulative average. As time goes on, the metric
becomes less and less useful due to the accumulated history.

This patch reuses the same calculation done in load averages to make the
avg_lat metric more lively. Unlike load averages, the avg only advances
when a window elapses (due to an io). Idle periods extend the most
recent window. Bucketing is used to limit the history of avg_lat by
binding it to the window size. So, the window range for 1/exp (decay
rate) is [1 min, 2.5 min) when windows elapse immediately.

The current sample window size is exposed in the debug info to enable
calculation of the window range.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-02 09:58:14 -06:00
Josef Bacik
52a1199ccd blk-iolatency: fix blkg leak in timer_fn
At this point we have a ref on the blkg, we need to drop it if we don't
have a iolat.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-01 09:16:01 -06:00
Josef Bacik
71e9690b59 blk-iolatency: truncate our current time
In our longer tests we noticed that some boxes would degrade to the
point of uselessness.  This is because we truncate the current time when
saving it in our bio, but I was using the raw current time to subtract
from.  So once the box had been up a certain amount of time it would
appear as if our IO's were taking several years to complete.  Fix this
by truncating the current time so it matches the issue time.  Verified
this worked by running with this patch for a week on our test tier.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-16 10:15:19 -06:00
Josef Bacik
d607eefa3b blk-iolatency: don't change the latency window
Early versions of these patches had us waiting for seconds at a time
during submission, so we had to adjust the timing window we monitored
for latency.  Now we don't do things like that so this is unnecessary
code.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-16 10:15:17 -06:00
Josef Bacik
a284390b39 blk-iolatency: fix max_depth comparisons
max_depth used to be a u64, but I changed it to a unsigned int but
didn't convert my comparisons over everywhere.  Fix by using UINT_MAX
everywhere instead of (u64)-1.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-11 08:37:38 -06:00
Arnd Bergmann
88b7210c81 block: iolatency: avoid 64-bit division
On 32-bit architectures, dividing a 64-bit number needs to use the
do_div() function or something like it to avoid a link failure:

block/blk-iolatency.o: In function `iolatency_prfill_limit':
blk-iolatency.c:(.text+0x8cc): undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'

Using div_u64() gives us the best output and avoids the need for an
explicit cast.

Fixes: d706751215 ("block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller")
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-10 12:26:09 -06:00
Josef Bacik
d706751215 block: introduce blk-iolatency io controller
Current IO controllers for the block layer are less than ideal for our
use case.  The io.max controller is great at hard limiting, but it is
not work conserving.  This patch introduces io.latency.  You provide a
latency target for your group and we monitor the io in short windows to
make sure we are not exceeding those latency targets.  This makes use of
the rq-qos infrastructure and works much like the wbt stuff.  There are
a few differences from wbt

 - It's bio based, so the latency covers the whole block layer in addition to
   the actual io.
 - We will throttle all IO types that comes in here if we need to.
 - We use the mean latency over the 100ms window.  This is because writes can
   be particularly fast, which could give us a false sense of the impact of
   other workloads on our protected workload.
 - By default there's no throttling, we set the queue_depth to INT_MAX so that
   we can have as many outstanding bio's as we're allowed to.  Only at
   throttle time do we pay attention to the actual queue depth.
 - We backcharge cgroups for root cg issued IO and induce artificial
   delays in order to deal with cases like metadata only or swap heavy
   workloads.

In testing this has worked out relatively well.  Protected workloads
will throttle noisy workloads down to 1 io at time if they are doing
normal IO on their own, or induce up to a 1 second delay per syscall if
they are doing a lot of root issued IO (metadata/swap IO).

Our testing has revolved mostly around our production web servers where
we have hhvm (the web server application) in a protected group and
everything else in another group.  We see slightly higher requests per
second (RPS) on the test tier vs the control tier, and much more stable
RPS across all machines in the test tier vs the control tier.

Another test we run is a slow memory allocator in the unprotected group.
Before this would eventually push us into swap and cause the whole box
to die and not recover at all.  With these patches we see slight RPS
drops (usually 10-15%) before the memory consumer is properly killed and
things recover within seconds.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-09 09:07:54 -06:00