Under heavy loads where the kyber I/O scheduler hits the token limits for
its scheduling domains, kyber can become stuck. When active requests
complete, kyber may not be woken up leaving the I/O requests in kyber
stuck.
This stuck state is due to a race condition with kyber and the sbitmap
functions it uses to run a callback when enough requests have completed.
The running of a sbt_wait callback can race with the attempt to insert the
sbt_wait. Since sbitmap_del_wait_queue removes the sbt_wait from the list
first then sets the sbq field to NULL, kyber can see the item as not on a
list but the call to sbitmap_add_wait_queue will see sbq as non-NULL. This
results in the sbt_wait being inserted onto the wait list but ws_active
doesn't get incremented. So the sbitmap queue does not know there is a
waiter on a wait list.
Since sbitmap doesn't think there is a waiter, kyber may never be
informed that there are domain tokens available and the I/O never advances.
With the sbt_wait on a wait list, kyber believes it has an active waiter
so cannot insert a new waiter when reaching the domain's full state.
This race can be fixed by only adding the sbt_wait to the queue if the
sbq field is NULL. If sbq is not NULL, there is already an action active
which will trigger the re-running of kyber. Let it run and add the
sbt_wait to the wait list if still needing to wait.
Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: John Pittman <jpittman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: John Pittman <jpittman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This bug was reliably being triggered on several test systems. With the
fix, the tests no longer fail.
sbitmap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/sbitmap.c b/lib/sbitmap.c
index 33feec8989f1..af88d1346dd7 100644
--- a/lib/sbitmap.c
+++ b/lib/sbitmap.c
@@ -650,8 +650,8 @@ void sbitmap_add_wait_queue(struct sbitmap_queue *sbq,
if (!sbq_wait->sbq) {
sbq_wait->sbq = sbq;
atomic_inc(&sbq->ws_active);
+ add_wait_queue(&ws->wait, &sbq_wait->wait);
}
- add_wait_queue(&ws->wait, &sbq_wait->wait);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sbitmap_add_wait_queue);
