On Wed, Jul 27 2022 at 11:25P -0400,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to ask - why not use dm_bufio_trylock from an interrupt context?
>
> I would just add a new function "dm_bufio_get_trylock" that is equivalent
> to "dm_bufio_get", except that it uses dm_bufio_trylock - and if it fails,
> fallback to process context.
>
> I think using dm_bufio_trylock would be less hacky than introducing a
> new dm_bufio flag that changes mutex to spinlock.
OK, I can drop the bufio hacks (patches 1 and 2) and replace with a
dm_bufio_get_trylock and see if that resolves the cryptsetup testing
issues Milan is reporting. But on the flip side I feel like trylock
is far more prone to fail for at least one of a series of cached
buffers needed (via _get). And so it'll punt to workqueue more often
and _not_ provide the desired performance improvement. BUT.. we shall
see.
All said, I'm now dropping this patchset from the upcoming 5.20 merge.
This all clearly needs more development time.
Huck: I'll run with Mikulas's suggestion and try to get the cryptsetup
tests passing. But I'll leave performance testing to you.
Thanks,
Mike
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2022, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>
> > From: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add an optional flag that ensures dm_bufio_client does not sleep
> > (primary focus is to service dm_bufio_get without sleeping). This
> > allows the dm-bufio cache to be queried from interrupt context.
> >
> > To ensure that dm-bufio does not sleep, dm-bufio must use a spinlock
> > instead of a mutex. Additionally, to avoid deadlocks, special care
> > must be taken so that dm-bufio does not sleep while holding the
> > spinlock.
> >
> > But again: the scope of this no_sleep is initially confined to
> > dm_bufio_get, so __alloc_buffer_wait_no_callback is _not_ changed to
> > avoid sleeping because __bufio_new avoids allocation for NF_GET.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
> > include/linux/dm-bufio.h | 5 +++++
> > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
> > index ad5603eb12e3..486179d1831c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
> > @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@
> > */
> > struct dm_bufio_client {
> > struct mutex lock;
> > + spinlock_t spinlock;
> > + unsigned long spinlock_flags;
> >
> > struct list_head lru[LIST_SIZE];
> > unsigned long n_buffers[LIST_SIZE];
> > @@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ struct dm_bufio_client {
> > s8 sectors_per_block_bits;
> > void (*alloc_callback)(struct dm_buffer *);
> > void (*write_callback)(struct dm_buffer *);
> > + bool no_sleep;
> >
> > struct kmem_cache *slab_buffer;
> > struct kmem_cache *slab_cache;
> > @@ -167,17 +170,26 @@ struct dm_buffer {
> >
> > static void dm_bufio_lock(struct dm_bufio_client *c)
> > {
> > - mutex_lock_nested(&c->lock, dm_bufio_in_request());
> > + if (c->no_sleep)
> > + spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&c->spinlock, c->spinlock_flags, dm_bufio_in_request());
> > + else
> > + mutex_lock_nested(&c->lock, dm_bufio_in_request());
> > }
> >
> > static int dm_bufio_trylock(struct dm_bufio_client *c)
> > {
> > - return mutex_trylock(&c->lock);
> > + if (c->no_sleep)
> > + return spin_trylock_irqsave(&c->spinlock, c->spinlock_flags);
> > + else
> > + return mutex_trylock(&c->lock);
> > }
> >
> > static void dm_bufio_unlock(struct dm_bufio_client *c)
> > {
> > - mutex_unlock(&c->lock);
> > + if (c->no_sleep)
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&c->spinlock, c->spinlock_flags);
> > + else
> > + mutex_unlock(&c->lock);
> > }
> >
> > /*----------------------------------------------------------------*/
> > @@ -1748,12 +1760,16 @@ struct dm_bufio_client *dm_bufio_client_create(struct block_device *bdev, unsign
> > c->alloc_callback = alloc_callback;
> > c->write_callback = write_callback;
> >
> > + if (flags & DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP)
> > + c->no_sleep = true;
> > +
> > for (i = 0; i < LIST_SIZE; i++) {
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&c->lru[i]);
> > c->n_buffers[i] = 0;
> > }
> >
> > mutex_init(&c->lock);
> > + spin_lock_init(&c->spinlock);
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&c->reserved_buffers);
> > c->need_reserved_buffers = reserved_buffers;
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/dm-bufio.h b/include/linux/dm-bufio.h
> > index e21480715255..15d9e15ca830 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/dm-bufio.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/dm-bufio.h
> > @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
> > struct dm_bufio_client;
> > struct dm_buffer;
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Flags for dm_bufio_client_create
> > + */
> > +#define DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP 0x1
> > +
> > /*
> > * Create a buffered IO cache on a given device
> > */
> > --
> > 2.32.1 (Apple Git-133)
> >
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