On 8/22/2017 10:12 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 20/08/2017 22:56, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
KVM: async_pf: avoid async pf injection when in guest mode
KVM: cpuid: Fix read/write out-of-bounds vulnerability in cpuid emulation
arm: KVM: Allow unaligned accesses at HYP
arm64: KVM: Allow unaligned accesses at EL2
arm64: KVM: Preserve RES1 bits in SCTLR_EL2
KVM: arm/arm64: Handle possible NULL stage2 pud when ageing pages
KVM: nVMX: Fix exception injection
kvm: async_pf: fix rcu_irq_enter() with irqs enabled
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Fix nr_pre_bits bitfield extraction
KVM: s390: fix ais handling vs cpu model
KVM: arm/arm64: Fix isues with GICv2 on GICv3 migration
Nothing really stands out to me which would "fix" the issue.
My guess would be an undo of the change that provoked the problem
in the first place. Did you try bisecting within the above group
of commits?
Either way, CCing Paolo for his thoughts?
There is "kvm: async_pf: fix rcu_irq_enter() with irqs enabled", but it
would have caused splats, not deadlocks.
If you are using nested virtualization, "KVM: async_pf: avoid async pf
injection when in guest mode" can be a wildcard, but only if you have
memory pressure.
My bet is still on the former changing the timing just a little bit.
Paolo
I'm sorry, I must have done the bisect incorrectly.
I attempted to bisect the KVM changes from the merge, but was seeing
that the issue didn't repro with any of them. I double checked the
merge commit, and found it did not introduce a "fix".
I redid the bisect, and it identified the following change this time. I
double checked that reverting the change reintroduces the deadlock, and
cherry-picking the change onto 4.12-rc4 (known to exhibit the issue)
causes the issue to disappear. I'm pretty sure (knock on wood) that the
bisect result is actually correct this time.
commit 6460495709aeb651896bc8e5c134b2e4ca7d34a8
Author: James Wang <jnwang@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 8 14:52:51 2017 +0800
Fix loop device flush before configure v3
While installing SLES-12 (based on v4.4), I found that the installer
will stall for 60+ seconds during LVM disk scan. The root cause was
determined to be the removal of a bound device check in loop_flush()
by commit b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq").
Restoring this check, examining ->lo_state as set by loop_set_fd()
eliminates the bad behavior.
Test method:
modprobe loop max_loop=64
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=512 count=200K
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do losetup -f disk; done
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/loop0
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do mkdir t$i; mount /dev/loop$i t$i;done
for f in `ls /dev/loop[0-9]*|sort`; do \
echo $f; dd if=$f of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1; \
done
Test output: stock patched
/dev/loop0 18.1217e-05 8.3842e-05
/dev/loop1 6.1114e-05 0.000147979
/dev/loop10 0.414701 0.000116564
/dev/loop11 0.7474 6.7942e-05
/dev/loop12 0.747986 8.9082e-05
/dev/loop13 0.746532 7.4799e-05
/dev/loop14 0.480041 9.3926e-05
/dev/loop15 1.26453 7.2522e-05
Note that from loop10 onward, the device is not mounted, yet the
stock kernel consumes several orders of magnitude more wall time
than it does for a mounted device.
(Thanks for Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>, give a changelog review.)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Wang <jnwang@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Considering the original analysis of the issue, it seems plausible that
this change could be fixing it.
--
Jeffrey Hugo
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