io-wq: remove GFP_ATOMIC allocation off schedule out path
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:37:25 +0000 (08:37 -0600)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:03:48 +0000 (09:03 -0600)
commit5ac78a0ed900418cc8ca27ced66742199566f997
tree0983ddf34d05e836969016bdc483603aab027cd5
parent7a9c61905cff856a95c0b703aa23d0b0641517a7
io-wq: remove GFP_ATOMIC allocation off schedule out path

Daniel reports that the v5.14-rc4-rt4 kernel throws a BUG when running
stress-ng:

| [   90.202543] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:35
| [   90.202549] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 2047, name: iou-wrk-2041
| [   90.202555] CPU: 5 PID: 2047 Comm: iou-wrk-2041 Tainted: G        W         5.14.0-rc4-rt4+ #89
| [   90.202559] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
| [   90.202561] Call Trace:
| [   90.202577]  dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
| [   90.202584]  ___might_sleep.cold+0x87/0x94
| [   90.202588]  rt_spin_lock+0x19/0x70
| [   90.202593]  ___slab_alloc+0xcb/0x7d0
| [   90.202598]  ? newidle_balance.constprop.0+0xf5/0x3b0
| [   90.202603]  ? dequeue_entity+0xc3/0x290
| [   90.202605]  ? io_wqe_dec_running.isra.0+0x98/0xe0
| [   90.202610]  ? pick_next_task_fair+0xb9/0x330
| [   90.202612]  ? __schedule+0x670/0x1410
| [   90.202615]  ? io_wqe_dec_running.isra.0+0x98/0xe0
| [   90.202618]  kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x79/0x1f0
| [   90.202621]  io_wqe_dec_running.isra.0+0x98/0xe0
| [   90.202625]  io_wq_worker_sleeping+0x37/0x50
| [   90.202628]  schedule+0x30/0xd0
| [   90.202630]  schedule_timeout+0x8f/0x1a0
| [   90.202634]  ? __bpf_trace_tick_stop+0x10/0x10
| [   90.202637]  io_wqe_worker+0xfd/0x320
| [   90.202641]  ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0xd3/0x290
| [   90.202644]  ? io_worker_handle_work+0x670/0x670
| [   90.202646]  ? io_worker_handle_work+0x670/0x670
| [   90.202649]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

which is due to the RT kernel not liking a GFP_ATOMIC allocation inside
a raw spinlock. Besides that not working on RT, doing any kind of
allocation from inside schedule() is kind of nasty and should be avoided
if at all possible.

This particular path happens when an io-wq worker goes to sleep, and we
need a new worker to handle pending work. We currently allocate a small
data item to hold the information we need to create a new worker, but we
can instead include this data in the io_worker struct itself and just
protect it with a single bit lock. We only really need one per worker
anyway, as we will have run pending work between to sleep cycles.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210804082418.fbibprcwtzyt5qax@beryllium.lan/
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
fs/io-wq.c