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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-blkback: defer freeing blkif to avoid blocking xenwatch



On 05/09/2014 07:34 PM, Valentin Priescu wrote:
From: Valentin Priescu <priescuv@xxxxxxxxxx>

Currently xenwatch blocks in VBD disconnect, waiting for all pending I/O
requests to finish. If the VBD is attached to a hot-swappable disk, then
xenwatch can hang for a long period of time, stalling other watches.

Note that we have a GSoC student (copied here) who is going to be looking at xenwatch's single-threadness (?) over the summer.

-boris



  INFO: task xenwatch:39 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
  "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  ffff880057f01bd0 0000000000000246 ffff880057f01ac0 ffffffff810b0782
  ffff880057f01ad0 00000000000131c0 0000000000000004 ffff880057edb040
  ffff8800344c6080 0000000000000000 ffff880058c00ba0 ffff880057edb040
  Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff810b0782>] ? irq_to_desc+0x12/0x20
  [<ffffffff8128f761>] ? list_del+0x11/0x40
  [<ffffffff8147a080>] ? wait_for_common+0x60/0x160
  [<ffffffff8147bcef>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x50
  [<ffffffff8147bd49>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x20
  [<ffffffff8147a26a>] schedule+0x3a/0x60
  [<ffffffffa018fe6a>] xen_blkif_disconnect+0x8a/0x100 [xen_blkback]
  [<ffffffff81079f70>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
  [<ffffffffa018ffce>] xen_blkbk_remove+0xae/0x1e0 [xen_blkback]
  [<ffffffff8130b254>] xenbus_dev_remove+0x44/0x90
  [<ffffffff81345cb7>] __device_release_driver+0x77/0xd0
  [<ffffffff81346488>] device_release_driver+0x28/0x40
  [<ffffffff813456e8>] bus_remove_device+0x78/0xe0
  [<ffffffff81342c9f>] device_del+0x12f/0x1a0
  [<ffffffff81342d2d>] device_unregister+0x1d/0x60
  [<ffffffffa0190826>] frontend_changed+0xa6/0x4d0 [xen_blkback]
  [<ffffffffa019c252>] ? frontend_changed+0x192/0x650 [xen_netback]
  [<ffffffff8130ae50>] ? cmp_dev+0x60/0x60
  [<ffffffff81344fe4>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x94/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8130b06e>] xenbus_otherend_changed+0xbe/0x120
  [<ffffffff8130b4cb>] frontend_changed+0xb/0x10
  [<ffffffff81309c82>] xenwatch_thread+0xf2/0x130
  [<ffffffff81079f70>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
  [<ffffffff81309b90>] ? xenbus_directory+0x80/0x80
  [<ffffffff810799d6>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
  [<ffffffff81485934>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  [<ffffffff814839f3>] ? int_ret_from_sys_call+0x7/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8147c17c>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6
  [<ffffffff81485930>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

With this patch, when there is still pending I/O, the actual disconnect
is done by the last reference holder (last pending I/O request). In this
case, xenwatch doesn't block indefinitely.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Priescu <priescuv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Kady <stevkady@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Noonan <snoonan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h |  4 +--
  drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h 
b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index be05277..f65b807 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ struct xen_blkif {
        unsigned long long                      st_rd_sect;
        unsigned long long                      st_wr_sect;
- wait_queue_head_t waiting_to_free;
+       struct work_struct      free_work;
        /* Thread shutdown wait queue. */
        wait_queue_head_t       shutdown_wq;
  };
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ struct pending_req {
  #define xen_blkif_put(_b)                             \
        do {                                            \
                if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(_b)->refcnt))  \
-                       wake_up(&(_b)->waiting_to_free);\
+                       schedule_work(&(_b)->free_work);\
        } while (0)
struct phys_req {
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c 
b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
index 9a547e6..7b6124e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -35,12 +35,26 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info *);
  static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *);
  static void backend_changed(struct xenbus_watch *, const char **,
                            unsigned int);
+static void xen_blkif_free(struct xen_blkif *blkif);
+static void xen_vbd_free(struct xen_vbd *vbd);
struct xenbus_device *xen_blkbk_xenbus(struct backend_info *be)
  {
        return be->dev;
  }
+/*
+ * The last request could free the device from softirq context and
+ * xen_blkif_free() can sleep.
+ */
+static void xen_blkif_deferred_free(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+       struct xen_blkif *blkif;
+
+       blkif = container_of(work, struct xen_blkif, free_work);
+       xen_blkif_free(blkif);
+}
+
  static int blkback_name(struct xen_blkif *blkif, char *buf)
  {
        char *devpath, *devname;
@@ -121,7 +135,6 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid)
        init_completion(&blkif->drain_complete);
        atomic_set(&blkif->drain, 0);
        blkif->st_print = jiffies;
-       init_waitqueue_head(&blkif->waiting_to_free);
        blkif->persistent_gnts.rb_node = NULL;
        spin_lock_init(&blkif->free_pages_lock);
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkif->free_pages);
@@ -132,6 +145,7 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid)
        INIT_WORK(&blkif->persistent_purge_work, xen_blkbk_unmap_purged_grants);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkif->pending_free);
+       INIT_WORK(&blkif->free_work, xen_blkif_deferred_free);
for (i = 0; i < XEN_BLKIF_REQS; i++) {
                req = kzalloc(sizeof(*req), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -231,7 +245,7 @@ static int xen_blkif_map(struct xen_blkif *blkif, unsigned 
long shared_page,
        return 0;
  }
-static void xen_blkif_disconnect(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
+static int xen_blkif_disconnect(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
  {
        if (blkif->xenblkd) {
                kthread_stop(blkif->xenblkd);
@@ -239,19 +253,26 @@ static void xen_blkif_disconnect(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
                blkif->xenblkd = NULL;
        }
- atomic_dec(&blkif->refcnt);
-       wait_event(blkif->waiting_to_free, atomic_read(&blkif->refcnt) == 0);
-       atomic_inc(&blkif->refcnt);
+       /* The above kthread_stop() guarantees that at this point we
+        * don't have any discard_io or other_io requests. So, checking
+        * for inflight IO is enough.
+        */
+       if (!atomic_read(&blkif->inflight)) {
+               if (blkif->irq) {
+                       unbind_from_irqhandler(blkif->irq, blkif);
+                       blkif->irq = 0;
+               }
- if (blkif->irq) {
-               unbind_from_irqhandler(blkif->irq, blkif);
-               blkif->irq = 0;
-       }
+               if (blkif->blk_rings.common.sring) {
+                       xenbus_unmap_ring_vfree(blkif->be->dev,
+                               blkif->blk_ring);
+                       blkif->blk_rings.common.sring = NULL;
+               }
- if (blkif->blk_rings.common.sring) {
-               xenbus_unmap_ring_vfree(blkif->be->dev, blkif->blk_ring);
-               blkif->blk_rings.common.sring = NULL;
+               return 0;
        }
+
+       return -EBUSY;
  }
static void xen_blkif_free(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
@@ -259,8 +280,8 @@ static void xen_blkif_free(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
        struct pending_req *req, *n;
        int i = 0, j;
- if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&blkif->refcnt))
-               BUG();
+       xen_blkif_disconnect(blkif);
+       xen_vbd_free(&blkif->vbd);
/* Remove all persistent grants and the cache of ballooned pages. */
        xen_blkbk_free_caches(blkif);
@@ -449,16 +470,15 @@ static int xen_blkbk_remove(struct xenbus_device *dev)
                be->backend_watch.node = NULL;
        }
+ dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, NULL);
+
        if (be->blkif) {
                xen_blkif_disconnect(be->blkif);
-               xen_vbd_free(&be->blkif->vbd);
-               xen_blkif_free(be->blkif);
-               be->blkif = NULL;
+               xen_blkif_put(be->blkif);
        }
kfree(be->mode);
        kfree(be);
-       dev_set_drvdata(&dev->dev, NULL);
        return 0;
  }
@@ -700,7 +720,9 @@ static void frontend_changed(struct xenbus_device *dev,
                 * Enforce precondition before potential leak point.
                 * xen_blkif_disconnect() is idempotent.
                 */
-               xen_blkif_disconnect(be->blkif);
+               err = xen_blkif_disconnect(be->blkif);
+               if (err)
+                       break;
err = connect_ring(be);
                if (err)


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