Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] block: Avoid processing BDS twice in bdrv_set_aio_context_ignore()

[Sergio Lopez <slp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 04:01:19PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 15.12.2020 um 14:15 hat Sergio Lopez geschrieben:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:12:33PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > Am 14.12.2020 um 18:05 hat Sergio Lopez geschrieben:
> > > > While processing the parents of a BDS, one of the parents may process
> > > > the child that's doing the tail recursion, which leads to a BDS being
> > > > processed twice. This is especially problematic for the aio_notifiers,
> > > > as they might attempt to work on both the old and the new AIO
> > > > contexts.
> > > > 
> > > > To avoid this, add the BDS pointer to the ignore list, and check the
> > > > child BDS pointer while iterating over the children.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Ugh, so we get a mixed list of BdrvChild and BlockDriverState? :-/
> > 
> > I know, it's effective but quite ugly...
> > 
> > > What is the specific scenario where you saw this breaking? Did you have
> > > multiple BdrvChild connections between two nodes so that we would go to
> > > the parent node through one and then come back to the child node through
> > > the other?
> > 
> > I don't think this is a corner case. If the graph is walked top->down,
> > there's no problem since children are added to the ignore list before
> > getting processed, and siblings don't process each other. But, if the
> > graph is walked bottom->up, a BDS will start processing its parents
> > without adding itself to the ignore list, so there's nothing
> > preventing them from processing it again.
> 
> I don't understand. child is added to ignore before calling the parent
> callback on it, so how can we come back through the same BdrvChild?
> 
>     QLIST_FOREACH(child, &bs->parents, next_parent) {
>         if (g_slist_find(*ignore, child)) {
>             continue;
>         }
>         assert(child->klass->set_aio_ctx);
>         *ignore = g_slist_prepend(*ignore, child);
>         child->klass->set_aio_ctx(child, new_context, ignore);
>     }

Perhaps I'm missing something, but the way I understand it, that loop
is adding the BdrvChild pointer of each of its parents, but not the
BdrvChild pointer of the BDS that was passed as an argument to
b_s_a_c_i.

> You didn't dump the BdrvChild here. I think that would add some
> information on why we re-entered 0x555ee2fbf660. Maybe you can also add
> bs->drv->format_name for each node to make the scenario less abstract?

I've generated another trace with more data:

bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) enter
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) processing children
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) calling bsaci child=0x565505e42090 
(child->bs=0x565505e5d420)
bs=0x565505e5d420 (qcow2) enter
bs=0x565505e5d420 (qcow2) processing children
bs=0x565505e5d420 (qcow2) calling bsaci child=0x565505e41ea0 
(child->bs=0x565505e52060)
bs=0x565505e52060 (file) enter
bs=0x565505e52060 (file) processing children
bs=0x565505e52060 (file) processing parents
bs=0x565505e52060 (file) processing itself
bs=0x565505e5d420 (qcow2) processing parents
bs=0x565505e5d420 (qcow2) calling set_aio_ctx child=0x5655066a34d0
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) enter
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) processing children
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) calling bsaci child=0x565505e41d20 
(child->bs=0x565506bc0c00)
bs=0x565506bc0c00 (file) enter
bs=0x565506bc0c00 (file) processing children
bs=0x565506bc0c00 (file) processing parents
bs=0x565506bc0c00 (file) processing itself
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) processing parents
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) calling set_aio_ctx child=0x565505fc7aa0
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) calling set_aio_ctx child=0x5655068b8510
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) enter
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) processing children
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) calling bsaci child=0x565505e3c450 
(child->bs=0x565505fbf660)
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) enter
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) processing children
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) processing parents
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) processing itself
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) processing parents
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) calling set_aio_ctx child=0x565505e402d0
bs=0x565505e48030 (backup-top) processing itself
bs=0x565505fbf660 (qcow2) processing itself


So it seems this is happening:

backup-top (5e48030) <---------| (5)
   |    |                      |
   |    | (6) ------------> qcow2 (5fbf660)
   |                           ^    |
   |                       (3) |    | (4)
   |-> (1) qcow2 (5e5d420) -----    |-> file (6bc0c00)
   |
   |-> (2) file (5e52060)

backup-top (5e48030), the BDS that was passed as argument in the first
bdrv_set_aio_context_ignore() call, is re-entered when qcow2 (5fbf660)
is processing its parents, and the latter is also re-entered when the
first one starts processing its children again.

Sergio.

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