Re: [PATCH] md/raid1: fix writebehind bio clone

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 06:51:06AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
> >
> > After bio is submitted, we should not clone it as its bi_iter might be
> > invalid by driver. This is the case of behind_master_bio. In certain
> > situration, we could dispatch behind_master_bio immediately for the
> > first disk and then clone it for other disks.
> 
> If I understand it correctly, it should be caused by dispatching
> the master bio during the loop either via flushing plug or md_wakeup_thread().
> 
> If so, could we just add the bios into one temp pending list inside
> the loop? Then
> merge the temp list into conf->pending_bio_list after loop and
> schedule to dispatch
> them all? This way looks a bit more efficient.

that's possible, but narrow_write_error will clone it after we already dispatch
the bio, so I thought it's more clean to just clone one bio.

Thanks,
Shaohua
 
> Thanks,
> Ming
> 
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196383
> >
> > Reported-by: Markus <m4rkusxxl@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Fix: 841c1316c7da(md: raid1: improve write behind)
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (4.12+)
> > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/md/raid1.c | 30 ++++++++++--------------------
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> > index 8387eb1540cd..5622f521830b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> > @@ -484,10 +484,6 @@ static void raid1_end_write_request(struct bio *bio)
> >         }
> >
> >         if (behind) {
> > -               /* we release behind master bio when all write are done */
> > -               if (r1_bio->behind_master_bio == bio)
> > -                       to_put = NULL;
> > -
> >                 if (test_bit(WriteMostly, &rdev->flags))
> >                         atomic_dec(&r1_bio->behind_remaining);
> >
> > @@ -1080,7 +1076,7 @@ static void unfreeze_array(struct r1conf *conf)
> >         wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
> >  }
> >
> > -static struct bio *alloc_behind_master_bio(struct r1bio *r1_bio,
> > +static void alloc_behind_master_bio(struct r1bio *r1_bio,
> >                                            struct bio *bio)
> >  {
> >         int size = bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
> > @@ -1090,7 +1086,7 @@ static struct bio *alloc_behind_master_bio(struct r1bio *r1_bio,
> >
> >         behind_bio = bio_alloc_mddev(GFP_NOIO, vcnt, r1_bio->mddev);
> >         if (!behind_bio)
> > -               goto fail;
> > +               return;
> >
> >         /* discard op, we don't support writezero/writesame yet */
> >         if (!bio_has_data(bio))
> > @@ -1115,14 +1111,13 @@ static struct bio *alloc_behind_master_bio(struct r1bio *r1_bio,
> >         r1_bio->behind_master_bio = behind_bio;;
> >         set_bit(R1BIO_BehindIO, &r1_bio->state);
> >
> > -       return behind_bio;
> > +       return;
> >
> >  free_pages:
> >         pr_debug("%dB behind alloc failed, doing sync I/O\n",
> >                  bio->bi_iter.bi_size);
> >         bio_free_pages(behind_bio);
> > -fail:
> > -       return behind_bio;
> > +       bio_put(behind_bio);
> >  }
> >
> >  struct raid1_plug_cb {
> > @@ -1475,7 +1470,7 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
> >                             (atomic_read(&bitmap->behind_writes)
> >                              < mddev->bitmap_info.max_write_behind) &&
> >                             !waitqueue_active(&bitmap->behind_wait)) {
> > -                               mbio = alloc_behind_master_bio(r1_bio, bio);
> > +                               alloc_behind_master_bio(r1_bio, bio);
> >                         }
> >
> >                         bitmap_startwrite(bitmap, r1_bio->sector,
> > @@ -1485,14 +1480,11 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
> >                         first_clone = 0;
> >                 }
> >
> > -               if (!mbio) {
> > -                       if (r1_bio->behind_master_bio)
> > -                               mbio = bio_clone_fast(r1_bio->behind_master_bio,
> > -                                                     GFP_NOIO,
> > -                                                     mddev->bio_set);
> > -                       else
> > -                               mbio = bio_clone_fast(bio, GFP_NOIO, mddev->bio_set);
> > -               }
> > +               if (r1_bio->behind_master_bio)
> > +                       mbio = bio_clone_fast(r1_bio->behind_master_bio,
> > +                                             GFP_NOIO, mddev->bio_set);
> > +               else
> > +                       mbio = bio_clone_fast(bio, GFP_NOIO, mddev->bio_set);
> >
> >                 if (r1_bio->behind_master_bio) {
> >                         if (test_bit(WriteMostly, &conf->mirrors[i].rdev->flags))
> > @@ -2346,8 +2338,6 @@ static int narrow_write_error(struct r1bio *r1_bio, int i)
> >                         wbio = bio_clone_fast(r1_bio->behind_master_bio,
> >                                               GFP_NOIO,
> >                                               mddev->bio_set);
> > -                       /* We really need a _all clone */
> > -                       wbio->bi_iter = (struct bvec_iter){ 0 };
> >                 } else {
> >                         wbio = bio_clone_fast(r1_bio->master_bio, GFP_NOIO,
> >                                               mddev->bio_set);
> > --
> > 2.11.0
> >



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