On 11/21/18 7:00 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 06:42:51PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 11/21/18 6:00 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:47:35PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/18 8:20 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On 11/14/18 1:25 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
>>>>>> c2856ae2f315d ("blk-mq: quiesce queue before freeing queue") has
>>>>>> already fixed this race, however the implied synchronize_rcu()
>>>>>> in blk_mq_quiesce_queue() can slow down LUN probe a lot, so caused
>>>>>> performance regression.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then 1311326cf4755c7 ("blk-mq: avoid to synchronize rcu inside blk_cleanup_queue()")
>>>>>> tried to quiesce queue for avoiding unnecessary synchronize_rcu()
>>>>>> only when queue initialization is done, because it is usual to see
>>>>>> lots of inexistent LUNs which need to be probed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, turns out it isn't safe to quiesce queue only when queue
>>>>>> initialization is done. Because when one SCSI command is completed,
>>>>>> the user of sending command can be waken up immediately, then the
>>>>>> scsi device may be removed, meantime the run queue in scsi_end_request()
>>>>>> is still in-progress, so kernel panic can be caused.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Red Hat QE lab, there are several reports about this kind of kernel
>>>>>> panic triggered during kernel booting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch tries to address the issue by grabing one queue usage
>>>>>> counter during freeing one request and the following run queue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks applied, this bug was elusive but ever present in recent
>>>>> testing that we did internally, it's been a huge pain in the butt.
>>>>> The symptoms were usually a crash in blk_mq_get_driver_tag() with
>>>>> hctx->tags == NULL, or a crash inside deadline request insert off
>>>>> requeue.
>>>>
>>>> I'm still hitting some weird crashes even with this applied, like
>>>> this one:
>>>>
>>>> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000148
>>>> PGD 0 P4D 0.
>>>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
>>>> CPU: 37 PID: 763 Comm: kworker/37:1H Not tainted 4.20.0-rc3-00649-ge64d9a554a91-dirty #14
>>>> Hardware name: Wiwynn Leopard-Orv2/Leopard-DDR BW, BIOS LBM08 03/03/2017
>>>> Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
>>>> RIP: 0010:blk_mq_get_driver_tag+0x81/0x120
>>>> Code: 24 10 48 89 7c 24 20 74 21 83 fa ff 0f 95 c0 48 8b 4c 24 28 65 48 33 0c 25 28 00 00 00 0f 85 96 00 00 00 48 83 c4 30 5b 5d c3 <48> 8b 87 48 01 00 00 8b 40 04 39 43 20 72 37 f6 87 b0 00 00 00 02
>>>> RSP: 0018:ffffc90004aabd30 EFLAGS: 00010246
>>>> RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff888465ea1300 RCX: ffffc90004aabde8
>>>> RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffffc90004aabde8 RDI: 0000000000000000
>>>> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff888465ea1348 R09: 0000000000000000
>>>> R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: ffff888465ea1300
>>>> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888465ea1348 R15: ffff888465d10000
>>>> FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88846f9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>>>> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>>>> CR2: 0000000000000148 CR3: 000000000220a003 CR4: 00000000003606e0
>>>> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>>>> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>>>> Call Trace:
>>>> blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0xec/0x480
>>>> ? elv_rb_del+0x11/0x30
>>>> blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x6e/0xf0
>>>> blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xfa/0x170
>>>> __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x5f/0xe0
>>>> process_one_work+0x154/0x350
>>>> worker_thread+0x46/0x3c0
>>>> kthread+0xf5/0x130
>>>> ? process_one_work+0x350/0x350
>>>> ? kthread_destroy_worker+0x50/0x50
>>>> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
>>>> Modules linked in: sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm switchtec irqbypass iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support efivars cdc_ether usbnet mii cdc_acm i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler acpi_cpufreq button sch_fq_codel nfsd nfs_acl lockd grace auth_rpcgss oid_registry sunrpc nvme nvme_core fuse sg loop efivarfs autofs4
>>>> CR2: 0000000000000148
>>>> ---[ end trace 340a1fb996df1b9b ]---
>>>> RIP: 0010:blk_mq_get_driver_tag+0x81/0x120
>>>> Code: 24 10 48 89 7c 24 20 74 21 83 fa ff 0f 95 c0 48 8b 4c 24 28 65 48 33 0c 25 28 00 00 00 0f 85 96 00 00 00 48 83 c4 30 5b 5d c3 <48> 8b 87 48 01 00 00 8b 40 04 39 43 20 72 37 f6 87 b0 00 00 00 02
>>>>
>>>> which doesn't look that great... Are we sure this patch closed the window
>>>> completely?
>>>
>>> I mentioned this patch is just one workaround, see my comment before:
>>>
>>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=154224379320094&w=2
>>>
>>>>
>>>> One thing I'm pondering is we're running the queue async, so the
>>>> ref get will protect whatever blk_mq_run_hw_queues() does, but
>>>> what is preventing the queue from going away as soon as we've
>>>> returned from that call? Meanwhile we still have the work item
>>>> queued up, and it'll run, and go boom like above.
>>>
>>> blk_sync_queue() supposes to drain the queued work, but it can be
>>> queued after blk_sync_queue() returns.
>>
>> It's definitely broken. Big time. And we need to do something about
>> it NOW.
>>
>>> Or maybe we can try the following patch?
>>
>> I'm going to start backing out the sync removal patches instead of
>> adding items to the hot path...
>
> Yeah, I agree to do the following to bring back the sync, even though it slows
> down boot.
It slows it down for some cases, not in general. Do we need the synchronize_rcu()
in the tagset deletion as well?
> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> index 04f5be473638..f6943f4a4d16 100644
> --- a/block/blk-core.c
> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void blk_cleanup_queue(struct request_queue *q)
> * We rely on driver to deal with the race in case that queue
> * initialization isn't done.
> */
> - if (queue_is_mq(q) && blk_queue_init_done(q))
> + if (queue_is_mq(q))
> blk_mq_quiesce_queue(q);
>
>>
>> Ted, I saw your email, I'm looking into it. Sounds like a regression
>> between 4.18 and 4.19. The sync issue could still be it, as it can
>> cause memory corruption, and that could lead to other corruption
>> issues.
>
> But I don't understand why this sync issue is related data corruption
> because FS IO only starts after blk_queue_init_done() becomes true.
> And blk_mq_quiesce_queue() and the following blk_sync_queue() should
> have drained everything queued.
Nobody understands what is going on so far, unfortunately. But I'm
assuming it's some related corruption that happens before the fs
is mounted.
--
Jens Axboe
