On Thu, Jul 28 2016, ZhengYuan Liu wrote:

> The counter conf->empty_inactive_list_nr is only used for determine if the
> raid5 is congested which is deal with in function raid5_congested().
> It was increased in get_free_stripe() when conf->inactive_list got to be
> empty and decreased in release_inactive_stripe_list() when splice
> temp_inactive_list to conf->inactive_list. However, this may have a
> problem when raid5_get_active_stripe or stripe_add_to_batch_list was called,
> because these two functions may call list_del_init(&sh->lru) to delete sh from
> "conf->inactive_list + hash" which may cause "conf->inactive_list + hash" to
> be empty when atomic_inc_not_zero(&sh->count) got false. So a check should be
> done at these two point and increase empty_inactive_list_nr accordingly.
> Otherwise the counter may get to be negative number which would influence
> async readahead from VFS.
>
> Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/md/raid5.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> index 7c53861..1656c44 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> @@ -659,6 +659,7 @@ raid5_get_active_stripe(struct r5conf *conf, sector_t sector,
>  {
>  	struct stripe_head *sh;
>  	int hash = stripe_hash_locks_hash(sector);
> +	int inc_empty_inactive_list_flag;
>  
>  	pr_debug("get_stripe, sector %llu\n", (unsigned long long)sector);
>  
> @@ -703,7 +704,12 @@ raid5_get_active_stripe(struct r5conf *conf, sector_t sector,
>  					atomic_inc(&conf->active_stripes);
>  				BUG_ON(list_empty(&sh->lru) &&
>  				       !test_bit(STRIPE_EXPANDING, &sh->state));
> +				inc_empty_inactive_list_flag = 0;
> +				if (!list_empty(conf->inactive_list + hash))
> +					inc_empty_inactive_list_flag = 1;
>  				list_del_init(&sh->lru);
> +				if (list_empty(conf->inactive_list + hash) && inc_empty_inactive_list_flag)
> +					atomic_inc(&conf->empty_inactive_list_nr);

Maybe I'm forgetting an important detail, but this seems more
complicated than it needs to be.
The code just just confirmed that sh->count is zero, so sh must be on
the inactive list, mustn't it?
So inc_empty_inactive_list_flag can never be set to 1.

What am I missing?  Could sh not be on the inactive list at this point?

Same for the code below.

NeilBrown


>  				if (sh->group) {
>  					sh->group->stripes_cnt--;
>  					sh->group = NULL;
> @@ -762,6 +768,7 @@ static void stripe_add_to_batch_list(struct r5conf *conf, struct stripe_head *sh
>  	sector_t head_sector, tmp_sec;
>  	int hash;
>  	int dd_idx;
> +	int inc_empty_inactive_list_flag;
>  
>  	if (!stripe_can_batch(sh))
>  		return;
> @@ -781,7 +788,11 @@ static void stripe_add_to_batch_list(struct r5conf *conf, struct stripe_head *sh
>  				atomic_inc(&conf->active_stripes);
>  			BUG_ON(list_empty(&head->lru) &&
>  			       !test_bit(STRIPE_EXPANDING, &head->state));
> +			if (!list_empty(conf->inactive_list + hash))
> +				inc_empty_inactive_list_flag = 1;
>  			list_del_init(&head->lru);
> +			if (list_empty(conf->inactive_list + hash) && inc_empty_inactive_list_flag)
> +				atomic_inc(&conf->empty_inactive_list_nr);
>  			if (head->group) {
>  				head->group->stripes_cnt--;
>  				head->group = NULL;
> -- 
> 1.9.1