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

[Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>]

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.

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
>