From: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
To: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Cc: Luca Mariotti <mariottiluca1@hotmail.it>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Pietro Pedroni <pedroni.pietro.96@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix delayed stable merge check
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 18:57:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E9D95C99-D07B-4A63-8C0E-67356887DE23@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f23f8090-4a55-3c16-1bdd-f86634cd6f3b@applied-asynchrony.com>
> Il giorno 20 mag 2021, alle ore 09:15, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> ha scritto:
>
> On 2021-05-18 12:43, Luca Mariotti wrote:
>> When attempting to schedule a merge of a given bfq_queue with the currently
>> in-service bfq_queue or with a cooperating bfq_queue among the scheduled
>> bfq_queues, delayed stable merge is checked for rotational or non-queueing
>> devs. For this stable merge to be performed, some conditions must be met.
>> If the current bfq_queue underwent some split from some merged bfq_queue,
>> one of these conditions is that two hundred milliseconds must elapse from
>> split, otherwise this condition is always met.
>> Unfortunately, by mistake, time_is_after_jiffies() was written instead of
>> time_is_before_jiffies() for this check, verifying that less than two
>> hundred milliseconds have elapsed instead of verifying that at least two
>> hundred milliseconds have elapsed.
>> Fix this issue by replacing time_is_after_jiffies() with
>> time_is_before_jiffies().
>> Signed-off-by: Luca Mariotti <mariottiluca1@hotmail.it>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Pietro Pedroni <pedroni.pietro.96@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> block/bfq-iosched.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> index acd1f881273e..2adb1e69c9d2 100644
>> --- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> +++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
>> @@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@ bfq_setup_cooperator(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
>> if (unlikely(!bfqd->nonrot_with_queueing)) {
>> if (bic->stable_merge_bfqq &&
>> !bfq_bfqq_just_created(bfqq) &&
>> - time_is_after_jiffies(bfqq->split_time +
>> + time_is_before_jiffies(bfqq->split_time +
>> msecs_to_jiffies(200))) {
>> struct bfq_queue *stable_merge_bfqq =
>> bic->stable_merge_bfqq;
>
> Not sure why but with this patch I quickly got a division-by-zero in BFQ and
> complete system halt. Unfortunately I couldn't capture the exact stack trace,
> but it read something like bfq_calc_weight() or something ike that.
> I looked through the code and found bfq_delta(), so maybe weight got
> reduced to 0?
>
Hi Holger,
is this (easily) reproducible for you? If so, I'd like to propose you
a candidate fix.
Thanks,
Paolo
> -h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-24 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-18 10:43 [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix delayed stable merge check Luca Mariotti
2021-05-20 7:15 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2021-05-20 16:39 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2021-05-24 16:57 ` Paolo Valente [this message]
2021-05-24 17:13 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2021-05-24 17:41 ` Paolo Valente
2021-05-24 18:45 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2021-05-25 10:40 ` Paolo Valente
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