From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guoqing Jiang Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] raid5: call clear_batch_ready before set STRIPE_ACTIVE Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:22:46 +0200 Message-ID: <407fa617-c86e-d63d-65ad-3f3058c5e40f@cloud.ionos.com> References: <20200616092552.1754-1-guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Song Liu Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 6/24/20 1:58 AM, Song Liu wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:25 AM Guoqing Jiang > wrote: >> We tried to only put the head sh of batch list to handle_list, then the >> handle_stripe doesn't handle other members in the batch list. However, >> we still got the calltrace in break_stripe_batch_list. >> >> [593764.644269] stripe state: 2003 >> kernel: [593764.644299] ------------[ cut here ]------------ >> kernel: [593764.644308] WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 856 at drivers/md/raid5.c:4625 break_stripe_batch_list+0x203/0x240 [raid456] >> [...] >> kernel: [593764.644363] Call Trace: >> kernel: [593764.644370] handle_stripe+0x907/0x20c0 [raid456] >> kernel: [593764.644376] ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x89/0xc0 >> kernel: [593764.644379] handle_active_stripes.isra.57+0x35f/0x570 [raid456] >> kernel: [593764.644382] ? raid5_wakeup_stripe_thread+0x96/0x1f0 [raid456] >> kernel: [593764.644385] raid5d+0x480/0x6a0 [raid456] >> kernel: [593764.644390] ? md_thread+0x11f/0x160 >> kernel: [593764.644392] md_thread+0x11f/0x160 >> kernel: [593764.644394] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 >> kernel: [593764.644396] kthread+0xfc/0x130 >> kernel: [593764.644398] ? find_pers+0x70/0x70 >> kernel: [593764.644399] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x70/0x70 >> kernel: [593764.644401] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 >> >> As we can see, the stripe was set with STRIPE_ACTIVE and STRIPE_HANDLE, >> and only handle_stripe could set those flags then return. And since the >> stipe was already in the batch list, we need to return earlier before >> set the two flags. >> >> And after dig a little about git history especially commit 3664847d95e6 >> ("md/raid5: fix a race condition in stripe batch"), it seems the batched >> stipe still could be handled by handle_stipe, then handle_stipe needs to >> return earlier if clear_batch_ready to return true. >> >> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang >> --- >> Another alternative would be just not warn if STRIPE_ACTIVE is valid for >> the batched list. >> >> What do you think? >> > This patch looks good to me (haven't tested yet). Let's try with this one. Ok, pls let me know if there is issue during test. And do you want a new patch to reflect which I clarified for the line number and kernel version? Thanks, Guoqing