Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] block: avoid to call .bi_end_io() recursively

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>]

Hi Mikulas,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Ming Lei wrote:
>
>> There were reports about heavy stack use by recursive calling
>> .bi_end_io()([1][2][3]). For example, more than 16K stack is
>> consumed in a single bio complete path[3], and in [2] stack
>> overflow can be triggered if 20 nested dm-crypt is used.
>>
>> Also patches[1] [2] [3] were posted for addressing the issue,
>> but never be merged. And the idea in these patches is basically
>> similar, all serializes the recursive calling of .bi_end_io() by
>> percpu list.
>>
>> This patch still takes the same idea, but uses bio_list to
>> implement it, which turns out more simple and the code becomes
>> more readable meantime.
>>
>> One corner case which wasn't covered before is that
>> bi_endio() may be scheduled to run in process context(such
>> as btrfs), and this patch just bypasses the optimizing for
>> that case because one new context should have enough stack space,
>> and this approach isn't capable of optimizing it too because
>> there isn't easy way to get a per-task linked list head.
>
> Hi
>
> You could use preempt_disable() and then you could use per-cpu list even
> in the process context.

Image why the .bi_end_io() is scheduled to process context, and the only
workable/simple way I thought of is to use per-task list because it may sleep.

Given new context should have enough stack and only btrfs has this kind of
usage as far as I see, so don't think that is worth of the optimization.

Thanks,
Ming

>
> Mikulas
>
>> xfstests(-g auto) is run with this patch and no regression is
>> found on ext4, xfs and btrfs.
>>
>> [1] http://marc.info/?t=121428502000004&r=1&w=2
>> [2] http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=139595190620008&w=2
>> [3] http://marc.info/?t=145974644100001&r=1&w=2
>>
>> Cc: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
>> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
>> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
>> Cc: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
>> ---
>>  block/bio.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
>> index 807d25e..e20a83c 100644
>> --- a/block/bio.c
>> +++ b/block/bio.c
>> @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(bio_slab_lock);
>>  static struct bio_slab *bio_slabs;
>>  static unsigned int bio_slab_nr, bio_slab_max;
>>
>> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct bio_list *, bio_end_list) = { NULL };
>> +
>>  static struct kmem_cache *bio_find_or_create_slab(unsigned int extra_size)
>>  {
>>       unsigned int sz = sizeof(struct bio) + extra_size;
>> @@ -1737,6 +1739,56 @@ static inline bool bio_remaining_done(struct bio *bio)
>>       return false;
>>  }
>>
>> +static void __bio_endio(struct bio *bio)
>> +{
>> +     if (bio->bi_end_io)
>> +             bio->bi_end_io(bio);
>> +}
>> +
>> +/* disable local irq when manipulating the percpu bio_list */
>> +static void unwind_bio_endio(struct bio *bio)
>> +{
>> +     struct bio_list *bl;
>> +     unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> +     /*
>> +      * We can't optimize if bi_endio() is scheduled to run from
>> +      * process context because there isn't easy way to get a
>> +      * per-task bio list head or allocate a per-task variable.
>> +      */
>> +     if (!in_interrupt()) {
>> +             /*
>> +              * It has to be a top calling when it is run from
>> +              * process context.
>> +              */
>> +             WARN_ON(this_cpu_read(bio_end_list));
>> +             __bio_endio(bio);
>> +             return;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     local_irq_save(flags);
>> +     bl = __this_cpu_read(bio_end_list);
>> +     if (bl) {
>> +             bio_list_add(bl, bio);
>> +     } else {
>> +             struct bio_list bl_in_stack;
>> +
>> +             bl = &bl_in_stack;
>> +             bio_list_init(bl);
>> +
>> +             __this_cpu_write(bio_end_list, bl);
>> +             while (bio) {
>> +                     local_irq_restore(flags);
>> +                     __bio_endio(bio);
>> +                     local_irq_save(flags);
>> +
>> +                     bio = bio_list_pop(bl);
>> +             }
>> +             __this_cpu_write(bio_end_list, NULL);
>> +     }
>> +     local_irq_restore(flags);
>> +}
>> +
>>  /**
>>   * bio_endio - end I/O on a bio
>>   * @bio:     bio
>> @@ -1765,8 +1817,7 @@ again:
>>               goto again;
>>       }
>>
>> -     if (bio->bi_end_io)
>> -             bio->bi_end_io(bio);
>> +     unwind_bio_endio(bio);
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_endio);
>>
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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