[PATCH] rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

[PATCH] rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

[Jan Kara]

Commit 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
tried to fix a problem that a process could be sleeping in rq_qos_wait()
without anyone to wake it up. However the fix is not complete and the
following can still happen:

CPU1 (waiter1)		CPU2 (waiter2)		CPU3 (waker)
rq_qos_wait()		rq_qos_wait()
  acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
			  acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails

						completes IOs, inflight
						  decreased
  prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
			  prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
  has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true as there are two sleepers
			  has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true
  io_schedule()		  io_schedule()

Deadlock as now there's nobody to wakeup the two waiters. The logic
automatically blocking when there are already sleepers is really subtle
and the only way to make it work reliably is that we check whether there
are some waiters in the queue when adding ourselves there. That way, we
are guaranteed that at least the first process to enter the wait queue
will recheck the waiting condition before going to sleep and thus
guarantee forward progress.

Fixes: 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 block/blk-rq-qos.c   | 4 ++--
 include/linux/wait.h | 2 +-
 kernel/sched/wait.c  | 9 +++++++--
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-rq-qos.c b/block/blk-rq-qos.c
index 656460636ad3..e83af7bc7591 100644
--- a/block/blk-rq-qos.c
+++ b/block/blk-rq-qos.c
@@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ void rq_qos_wait(struct rq_wait *rqw, void *private_data,
 	if (!has_sleeper && acquire_inflight_cb(rqw, private_data))
 		return;
 
-	prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&rqw->wait, &data.wq, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-	has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper(&rqw->wait);
+	has_sleeper = !prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&rqw->wait, &data.wq,
+						 TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 	do {
 		/* The memory barrier in set_task_state saves us here. */
 		if (data.got_token)
diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index fe10e8570a52..6598ae35e1b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ do {										\
  * Waitqueues which are removed from the waitqueue_head at wakeup time
  */
 void prepare_to_wait(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
-void prepare_to_wait_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
+bool prepare_to_wait_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
 long prepare_to_wait_event(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state);
 void finish_wait(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry);
 long wait_woken(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, unsigned mode, long timeout);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
index 183cc6ae68a6..76577d1642a5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -264,17 +264,22 @@ prepare_to_wait(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_ent
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait);
 
-void
+/* Returns true if we are the first waiter in the queue, false otherwise. */
+bool
 prepare_to_wait_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
+	bool was_empty = false;
 
 	wq_entry->flags |= WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&wq_head->lock, flags);
-	if (list_empty(&wq_entry->entry))
+	if (list_empty(&wq_entry->entry)) {
+		was_empty = list_empty(&wq_head->head);
 		__add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wq_head, wq_entry);
+	}
 	set_current_state(state);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq_head->lock, flags);
+	return was_empty;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait_exclusive);
 
-- 
2.26.2

Re: [PATCH] rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

[Jens Axboe]

On 6/7/21 5:26 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Commit 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
> tried to fix a problem that a process could be sleeping in rq_qos_wait()
> without anyone to wake it up. However the fix is not complete and the
> following can still happen:
> 
> CPU1 (waiter1)		CPU2 (waiter2)		CPU3 (waker)
> rq_qos_wait()		rq_qos_wait()
>   acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
> 			  acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
> 
> 						completes IOs, inflight
> 						  decreased
>   prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
> 			  prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
>   has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true as there are two sleepers
> 			  has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true
>   io_schedule()		  io_schedule()
> 
> Deadlock as now there's nobody to wakeup the two waiters. The logic
> automatically blocking when there are already sleepers is really subtle
> and the only way to make it work reliably is that we check whether there
> are some waiters in the queue when adding ourselves there. That way, we
> are guaranteed that at least the first process to enter the wait queue
> will recheck the waiting condition before going to sleep and thus
> guarantee forward progress.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe