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  1. 28 Oct, 2016 30 commits
  3. 25 Oct, 2016 6 commits
    • Glauber Costa's avatar
      cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes · 03a140b7
      Glauber Costa authored 
      commit 3932a86b upstream.

While debugging timeouts happening in my application workload (ScyllaDB), I have
observed calls to open() taking a long time, ranging everywhere from 2 seconds -
the first ones that are enough to time out my application - to more than 30
seconds.

The problem seems to happen because XFS may block on pending metadata updates
under certain circumnstances, and that's confirmed with the following backtrace
taken by the offcputime tool (iovisor/bcc):

    ffffffffb90c57b1 finish_task_switch
    ffffffffb97dffb5 schedule
    ffffffffb97e310c schedule_timeout
    ffffffffb97e1f12 __down
    ffffffffb90ea821 down
    ffffffffc046a9dc xfs_buf_lock
    ffffffffc046abfb _xfs_buf_find
    ffffffffc046ae4a xfs_buf_get_map
    ffffffffc046babd xfs_buf_read_map
    ffffffffc0499931 xfs_trans_read_buf_map
    ffffffffc044a561 xfs_da_read_buf
    ffffffffc0451390 xfs_dir3_leaf_read.constprop.16
    ffffffffc0452b90 xfs_dir2_leaf_lookup_int
    ffffffffc0452e0f xfs_dir2_leaf_lookup
    ffffffffc044d9d3 xfs_dir_lookup
    ffffffffc047d1d9 xfs_lookup
    ffffffffc0479e53 xfs_vn_lookup
    ffffffffb925347a path_openat
    ffffffffb9254a71 do_filp_open
    ffffffffb9242a94 do_sys_open
    ffffffffb9242b9e sys_open
    ffffffffb97e42b2 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
    00007fb0698162ed [unknown]

Inspecting my run with blktrace, I can see that the xfsaild kthread exhibit very
high "Dispatch wait" times, on the dozens of seconds range and consistent with
the open() times I have saw in that run.

Still from the blktrace output, we can after searching a bit, identify the
request that wasn't dispatched:

  8,0   11      152    81.092472813   804  A  WM 141698288 + 8 <- (8,1) 141696240
  8,0   11      153    81.092472889   804  Q  WM 141698288 + 8 [xfsaild/sda1]
  8,0   11      154    81.092473207   804  G  WM 141698288 + 8 [xfsaild/sda1]
  8,0   11      206    81.092496118   804  I  WM 141698288 + 8 (   22911) [xfsaild/sda1]
  <==== 'I' means Inserted (into the IO scheduler) ===================================>
  8,0    0   289372    96.718761435     0  D  WM 141698288 + 8 (15626265317) [swapper/0]
  <==== Only 15s later the CFQ scheduler dispatches the request ======================>

As we can see above, in this particular example CFQ took 15 seconds to dispatch
this request. Going back to the full trace, we can see that the xfsaild queue
had plenty of opportunity to run, and it was selected as the active queue many
times. It would just always be preempted by something else (example):

  8,0    1        0    81.117912979     0  m   N cfq1618SN / insert_request
  8,0    1        0    81.117913419     0  m   N cfq1618SN / add_to_rr
  8,0    1        0    81.117914044     0  m   N cfq1618SN / preempt
  8,0    1        0    81.117914398     0  m   N cfq767A  / slice expired t=1
  8,0    1        0    81.117914755     0  m   N cfq767A  / resid=40
  8,0    1        0    81.117915340     0  m   N / served: vt=1948520448 min_vt=1948520448
  8,0    1        0    81.117915858     0  m   N cfq767A  / sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=0 iops=1 sect=0

where cfq767 is the xfsaild queue and cfq1618 corresponds to one of the ScyllaDB
IO dispatchers.

The requests preempting the xfsaild queue are synchronous requests. That's a
characteristic of ScyllaDB workloads, as we only ever issue O_DIRECT requests.
While it can be argued that preempting ASYNC requests in favor of SYNC is part
of the CFQ logic, I don't believe that doing so for 15+ seconds is anyone's
goal.

Moreover, unless I am misunderstanding something, that breaks the expectation
set by the "fifo_expire_async" tunable, which in my system is set to the
default.

Looking at the code, it seems to me that the issue is that after we make
an async queue active, there is no guarantee that it will execute any request.

When the queue itself tests if it cfq_may_dispatch() it can bail if it sees SYNC
requests in flight. An incoming request from another queue can also preempt it
in such situation before we have the chance to execute anything (as seen in the
trace above).

This patch sets the must_dispatch flag if we notice that we have requests
that are already fifo_expired. This flag is always cleared after
cfq_dispatch_request() returns from cfq_dispatch_requests(), so it won't pin
the queue for subsequent requests (unless they are themselves expired)

Care is taken during preempt to still allow rt requests to preempt us
regardless.

Testing my workload with this patch applied produces much better results.
From the application side I see no timeouts, and the open() latency histogram
generated by systemtap looks much better, with the worst outlier at 131ms:

Latency histogram of xfs_buf_lock acquisition (microseconds):
 value |-------------------------------------------------- count
     0 |                                                     11
     1 |@@@@                                                161
     2 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  1966
     4 |@                                                    54
     8 |                                                     36
    16 |                                                      7
    32 |                                                      0
    64 |                                                      0
       ~
  1024 |                                                      0
  2048 |                                                      0
  4096 |                                                      1
  8192 |                                                      1
 16384 |                                                      2
 32768 |                                                      0
 65536 |                                                      0
131072 |                                                      1
262144 |                                                      0
524288 |                                                      0
Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      03a140b7
    • Ross Zwisler's avatar
      ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch · 474832ec
      Ross Zwisler authored 
      commit cca32b7e upstream.

Currently when doing a DAX hole punch with ext4 we fail to do a writeback.
This is because the logic around filemap_write_and_wait_range() in
ext4_punch_hole() only looks for dirty page cache pages in the radix tree,
not for dirty DAX exceptional entries.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      474832ec
    • Daeho Jeong's avatar
      ext4: reinforce check of i_dtime when clearing high fields of uid and gid · f0e1bad8
      Daeho Jeong authored 
      commit 93e3b4e6 upstream.

Now, ext4_do_update_inode() clears high 16-bit fields of uid/gid
of deleted and evicted inode to fix up interoperability with old
kernels. However, it checks only i_dtime of an inode to determine
whether the inode was deleted and evicted, and this is very risky,
because i_dtime can be used for the pointer maintaining orphan inode
list, too. We need to further check whether the i_dtime is being
used for the orphan inode list even if the i_dtime is not NULL.

We found that high 16-bit fields of uid/gid of inode are unintentionally
and permanently cleared when the inode truncation is just triggered,
but not finished, and the inode metadata, whose high uid/gid bits are
cleared, is written on disk, and the sudden power-off follows that
in order.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHobin Woo <hobin.woo@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      f0e1bad8
    • Brian King's avatar
      scsi: ibmvfc: Fix I/O hang when port is not mapped · 393328a0
      Brian King authored 
      commit 07d0e9a8 upstream.

If a VFC port gets unmapped in the VIOS, it may not respond with a CRQ
init complete following H_REG_CRQ. If this occurs, we can end up having
called scsi_block_requests and not a resulting unblock until the init
complete happens, which may never occur, and we end up hanging I/O
requests.  This patch ensures the host action stay set to
IBMVFC_HOST_ACTION_TGT_DEL so we move all rports into devloss state and
unblock unless we receive an init complete.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      393328a0
    • Mike Galbraith's avatar
      reiserfs: Unlock superblock before calling reiserfs_quota_on_mount() · 643a9a21
      Mike Galbraith authored 
      commit 420902c9 upstream.

If we hold the superblock lock while calling reiserfs_quota_on_mount(), we can
deadlock our own worker - mount blocks kworker/3:2, sleeps forever more.

crash> ps|grep UN
    715      2   3  ffff880220734d30  UN   0.0       0      0  [kworker/3:2]
   9369   9341   2  ffff88021ffb7560  UN   1.3  493404 123184  Xorg
   9665   9664   3  ffff880225b92ab0  UN   0.0   47368    812  udisks-daemon
  10635  10403   3  ffff880222f22c70  UN   0.0   14904    936  mount
crash> bt ffff880220734d30
PID: 715    TASK: ffff880220734d30  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "kworker/3:2"
 #0 [ffff8802244c3c20] schedule at ffffffff8144584b
 #1 [ffff8802244c3cc8] __rt_mutex_slowlock at ffffffff814472b3
 #2 [ffff8802244c3d28] rt_mutex_slowlock at ffffffff814473f5
 #3 [ffff8802244c3dc8] reiserfs_write_lock at ffffffffa05f28fd [reiserfs]
 #4 [ffff8802244c3de8] flush_async_commits at ffffffffa05ec91d [reiserfs]
 #5 [ffff8802244c3e08] process_one_work at ffffffff81073726
 #6 [ffff8802244c3e68] worker_thread at ffffffff81073eba
 #7 [ffff8802244c3ec8] kthread at ffffffff810782e0
 #8 [ffff8802244c3f48] kernel_thread_helper at ffffffff81450064
crash> rd ffff8802244c3cc8 10
ffff8802244c3cc8:  ffffffff814472b3 ffff880222f23250   .rD.....P2."....
ffff8802244c3cd8:  0000000000000000 0000000000000286   ................
ffff8802244c3ce8:  ffff8802244c3d30 ffff880220734d80   0=L$.....Ms ....
ffff8802244c3cf8:  ffff880222e8f628 0000000000000000   (.."............
ffff8802244c3d08:  0000000000000000 0000000000000002   ................
crash> struct rt_mutex ffff880222e8f628
struct rt_mutex {
  wait_lock = {
    raw_lock = {
      slock = 65537
    }
  },
  wait_list = {
    node_list = {
      next = 0xffff8802244c3d48,
      prev = 0xffff8802244c3d48
    }
  },
  owner = 0xffff880222f22c71,
  save_state = 0
}
crash> bt 0xffff880222f22c70
PID: 10635  TASK: ffff880222f22c70  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "mount"
 #0 [ffff8802216a9868] schedule at ffffffff8144584b
 #1 [ffff8802216a9910] schedule_timeout at ffffffff81446865
 #2 [ffff8802216a99a0] wait_for_common at ffffffff81445f74
 #3 [ffff8802216a9a30] flush_work at ffffffff810712d3
 #4 [ffff8802216a9ab0] schedule_on_each_cpu at ffffffff81074463
 #5 [ffff8802216a9ae0] invalidate_bdev at ffffffff81178aba
 #6 [ffff8802216a9af0] vfs_load_quota_inode at ffffffff811a3632
 #7 [ffff8802216a9b50] dquot_quota_on_mount at ffffffff811a375c
 #8 [ffff8802216a9b80] finish_unfinished at ffffffffa05dd8b0 [reiserfs]
 #9 [ffff8802216a9cc0] reiserfs_fill_super at ffffffffa05de825 [reiserfs]
    RIP: 00007f7b9303997a  RSP: 00007ffff443c7a8  RFLAGS: 00010202
    RAX: 00000000000000a5  RBX: ffffffff8144ef12  RCX: 00007f7b932e9ee0
    RDX: 00007f7b93d9a400  RSI: 00007f7b93d9a3e0  RDI: 00007f7b93d9a3c0
    RBP: 00007f7b93d9a2c0   R8: 00007f7b93d9a550   R9: 0000000000000001
    R10: ffffffffc0ed040e  R11: 0000000000000202  R12: 000000000000040e
    R13: 0000000000000000  R14: 00000000c0ed040e  R15: 00007ffff443ca20
    ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5  CS: 0033  SS: 002b
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      643a9a21
    • Guilherme G Piccoli's avatar
      i40e: avoid NULL pointer dereference and recursive errors on early PCI error · 0f3caac7
      Guilherme G Piccoli authored 
      commit edfc23ee upstream.

Although rare, it's possible to hit PCI error early on device
probe, meaning possibly some structs are not entirely initialized,
and some might even be completely uninitialized, leading to NULL
pointer dereference.

The i40e driver currently presents a "bad" behavior if device hits
such early PCI error: firstly, the struct i40e_pf might not be
attached to pci_dev yet, leading to a NULL pointer dereference on
access to pf->state.

Even checking if the struct is NULL and avoiding the access in that
case isn't enough, since the driver cannot recover from PCI error
that early; in our experiments we saw multiple failures on kernel
log, like:

  [549.664] i40e 0007:01:00.1: Initial pf_reset failed: -15
  [549.664] i40e: probe of 0007:01:00.1 failed with error -15
  [...]
  [871.644] i40e 0007:01:00.1: The driver for the device stopped because the
  device firmware failed to init. Try updating your NVM image.
  [871.644] i40e: probe of 0007:01:00.1 failed with error -32
  [...]
  [872.516] i40e 0007:01:00.0: ARQ: Unknown event 0x0000 ignored

Between the first probe failure (error -15) and the second (error -32)
another PCI error happened due to the first bad probe. Also, driver
started to flood console with those ARQ event messages.

This patch will prevent these issues by allowing error recovery
mechanism to remove the failed device from the system instead of
trying to recover from early PCI errors during device probe.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuilherme G Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      0f3caac7
  5. 20 Oct, 2016 4 commits
    • Jiri Slaby's avatar
      Linux 3.12.66 · e5dbd4b8
      Jiri Slaby authored
      e5dbd4b8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() · f949fcd7
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      commit 19be0eaf upstream.

This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once
(badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9 ("Fix
get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to
problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f4 ("fix get_user_pages bug").

In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now
fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better).  The
s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed ("s390/mm: implement
software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9.  Earlier kernels will
have to look at the page state itself.

Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely
theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger.

To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes,
we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that
is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that
the FOLL_COW flag is still valid.
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarPhil "not Paul" Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      f949fcd7
    • H.J. Lu's avatar
      x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE · 7faace13
      H.J. Lu authored 
      commit 6d92bc9d upstream.

The 32-bit x86 assembler in binutils 2.26 will generate R_386_GOT32X
relocation to get the symbol address in PIC.  When the compressed x86
kernel isn't built as PIC, the linker optimizes R_386_GOT32X relocations
to their fixed symbol addresses.  However, when the compressed x86
kernel is loaded at a different address, it leads to the following
load failure:

  Failed to allocate space for phdrs

during the decompression stage.

If the compressed x86 kernel is relocatable at run-time, it should be
compiled with -fPIE, instead of -fPIC, if possible and should be built as
Position Independent Executable (PIE) so that linker won't optimize
R_386_GOT32X relocation to its fixed symbol address.

Older linkers generate R_386_32 relocations against locally defined
symbols, _bss, _ebss, _got and _egot, in PIE.  It isn't wrong, just less
optimal than R_386_RELATIVE.  But the x86 kernel fails to properly handle
R_386_32 relocations when relocating the kernel.  To generate
R_386_RELATIVE relocations, we mark _bss, _ebss, _got and _egot as
hidden in both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 kernels.

To build a 64-bit compressed x86 kernel as PIE, we need to disable the
relocation overflow check to avoid relocation overflow errors. We do
this with a new linker command-line option, -z noreloc-overflow, which
got added recently:

 commit 4c10bbaa0912742322f10d9d5bb630ba4e15dfa7
 Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
 Date:   Tue Mar 15 11:07:06 2016 -0700

    Add -z noreloc-overflow option to x86-64 ld

    Add -z noreloc-overflow command-line option to the x86-64 ELF linker to
    disable relocation overflow check.  This can be used to avoid relocation
    overflow check if there will be no dynamic relocation overflow at
    run-time.

The 64-bit compressed x86 kernel is built as PIE only if the linker supports
-z noreloc-overflow.  So far 64-bit relocatable compressed x86 kernel
boots fine even when it is built as a normal executable.
Signed-off-by: default avatarH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[ Edited the changelog and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      7faace13
    • Arend Van Spriel's avatar
      brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap() · bfce0a40
      Arend Van Spriel authored 
      commit ded89912 upstream.

User-space can choose to omit NL80211_ATTR_SSID and only provide raw
IE TLV data. When doing so it can provide SSID IE with length exceeding
the allowed size. The driver further processes this IE copying it
into a local variable without checking the length. Hence stack can be
corrupted and used as exploit.
Reported-by: default avatarDaxing Guo <freener.gdx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFranky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      bfce0a40
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