From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>, io-uring@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] io_uring: grab any needed state during defer prep
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 11:01:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f95eb757-795a-adcc-e4ea-e0a783d62a29@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f514236-a584-e333-3ce2-8fd63c69c9c3@gmail.com>
On 10/2/20 10:34 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 02/10/2020 19:14, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 19/09/2020 19:56, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> On 19/09/2020 18:27, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>> On 14/09/2020 19:25, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> Always grab work environment for deferred links. The assumption that we
>>>>> will be running it always from the task in question is false, as exiting
>>>>> tasks may mean that we're deferring this one to a thread helper. And at
>>>>> that point it's too late to grab the work environment.
>>> Forgot that they will be cancelled there. So, how it could happen?
>>> Is that the initial thread will run task_work but loosing
>>> some resources like mm prior to that? e.g. in do_exit()
>>
>> Jens, please let me know when you get time for that. I was thinking that
>> you were meaning do_exit(), which does task_work_run() after killing mm,
>> etc., but you mentioned a thread helper in the description... Which one
>> do you mean?
>
> Either it refers to stuff after io_ring_ctx_wait_and_kill(), which
> delegates the rest to io_ring_exit_work() via @system_unbound_wq.
We punt the request to task_work. task_work is run, we're still in the
right context. We fail with -EAGAIN, and then call io_queue_async_work()
and we're not doing async prep at that point.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-02 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 16:25 [PATCHSET 0/5] io_uring fixes for 5.9 Jens Axboe
2020-09-14 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] io_uring: grab any needed state during defer prep Jens Axboe
2020-09-19 15:27 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-19 16:56 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-10-02 16:14 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-10-02 16:34 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-10-02 17:01 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-10-02 17:08 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-10-02 17:09 ` Jens Axboe
2020-10-02 17:14 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-09-14 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/5] io_uring: drop 'ctx' ref on task work cancelation Jens Axboe
2020-09-14 16:25 ` [PATCH 3/5] io_uring: don't run task work on an exiting task Jens Axboe
2020-09-14 16:25 ` [PATCH 4/5] io_uring: don't re-setup vecs/iter in io_resumit_prep() is already there Jens Axboe
2020-09-14 16:25 ` [PATCH 5/5] io_uring: don't use retry based buffered reads for non-async bdev Jens Axboe
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