Re: md_raid: mdX_raid6 looping after sync_action "check" to "idle" transition

[Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com>]

Hi Donald,

On 1/26/21 10:50, Donald Buczek wrote:
[...]

>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
>>> index 2d21c298ffa7..f40429843906 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
>>> @@ -4687,11 +4687,13 @@ action_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char 
>>> *page, size_t len)
>>>               clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
>>>           if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) &&
>>>               mddev_lock(mddev) == 0) {
>>> +            set_bit(MD_ALLOW_SB_UPDATE, &mddev->flags);
>>>               flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
>>>               if (mddev->sync_thread) {
>>>                   set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
>>>                   md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
>>>               }
>>> +            clear_bit(MD_ALLOW_SB_UPDATE, &mddev->flags);
>>>               mddev_unlock(mddev);
>>>           }
>>>       } else if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery))
>>
>> Yes, it could break the deadlock issue, but I am not sure if it is the 
>> right way given we only set ALLOW_SB_UPDATE in suspend which makes 
>> sense since the io will be quiesced, but write idle action can't 
>> guarantee the  similar thing.
> 
> Thinking (and documenting) MD_ALLOW_SB_UPDATE as "the holder of 
> reconfig_mutex promises not to make any changes which would exclude 
> superblocks from being written" might make it easier to accept the usage.

I am not sure it is safe to set the flag here since write idle can't 
prevent IO from fs while mddev_suspend can guarantee that.

> 
>> I prefer to make resync thread not wait forever here.
>>

[...]

>>
>> -        sh = raid5_get_active_stripe(conf, new_sector, previous,
>> +        sh = raid5_get_active_stripe(conf, new_sector, previous, 0,
> 
> 
> Mistake here (fourth argument added instead of third)

Thanks for checking.

[...]

> Unfortunately, this patch did not fix the issue.
> 
>      root@sloth:~/linux# cat /proc/$(pgrep md3_resync)/stack
>      [<0>] raid5_get_active_stripe+0x1e7/0x6b0
>      [<0>] raid5_sync_request+0x2a7/0x3d0
>      [<0>] md_do_sync.cold+0x3ee/0x97c
>      [<0>] md_thread+0xab/0x160
>      [<0>] kthread+0x11b/0x140
>      [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> 
> which is ( according to objdump -d -Sl drivers/md/raid5.o ) at 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.11-rc5/source/drivers/md/raid5.c#L735
> 
> Isn't it still the case that the superblocks are not written, therefore 
> stripes are not processed, therefore number of active stripes are not 
> decreasing? Who is expected to wake up conf->wait_for_stripe waiters?

Hmm, how about wake the waiter up in the while loop of raid5d?

@@ -6520,6 +6532,11 @@ static void raid5d(struct md_thread *thread)
                         md_check_recovery(mddev);
                         spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
                 }
+
+               if ((atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes)
+                    < (conf->max_nr_stripes * 3 / 4) ||
+                    (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery))))
+                       wake_up(&conf->wait_for_stripe);
         }
         pr_debug("%d stripes handled\n", handled);

If the issue still appears then I will change the waiter to break just 
if MD_RECOVERY_INTR is set, something like.

wait_event_lock_irq(conf->wait_for_stripe,
	(test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery) && sync_req) ||
	 /* the previous condition */,
	*(conf->hash_locks + hash));

Thanks,
Guoqing