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authorBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>2021-01-28 08:58:15 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-02-13 15:55:13 +0300
commitfb8f9b2f7d229a8bc74db1cfa53814a0d6b42b7f (patch)
tree5db359ca407781d2930b71940bfb47512c233e55 /block
parent4d00f1bade7859c6b884f267441155cbf8446f6c (diff)
downloadlinux-fb8f9b2f7d229a8bc74db1cfa53814a0d6b42b7f.tar.xz
blk-cgroup: Use cond_resched() when destroy blkgs
[ Upstream commit 6c635caef410aa757befbd8857c1eadde5cc22ed ] On !PREEMPT kernel, we can get below softlockup when doing stress testing with creating and destroying block cgroup repeatly. The reason is it may take a long time to acquire the queue's lock in the loop of blkcg_destroy_blkgs(), or the system can accumulate a huge number of blkgs in pathological cases. We can add a need_resched() check on each loop and release locks and do cond_resched() if true to avoid this issue, since the blkcg_destroy_blkgs() is not called from atomic contexts. [ 4757.010308] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#11 stuck for 94s! [ 4757.010698] Call trace: [ 4757.010700]  blkcg_destroy_blkgs+0x68/0x150 [ 4757.010701]  cgwb_release_workfn+0x104/0x158 [ 4757.010702]  process_one_work+0x1bc/0x3f0 [ 4757.010704]  worker_thread+0x164/0x468 [ 4757.010705]  kthread+0x108/0x138 Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-cgroup.c18
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index 54fbe1e80cc4..f13688c4b931 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -1017,6 +1017,8 @@ static void blkcg_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
*/
void blkcg_destroy_blkgs(struct blkcg *blkcg)
{
+ might_sleep();
+
spin_lock_irq(&blkcg->lock);
while (!hlist_empty(&blkcg->blkg_list)) {
@@ -1024,14 +1026,20 @@ void blkcg_destroy_blkgs(struct blkcg *blkcg)
struct blkcg_gq, blkcg_node);
struct request_queue *q = blkg->q;
- if (spin_trylock(&q->queue_lock)) {
- blkg_destroy(blkg);
- spin_unlock(&q->queue_lock);
- } else {
+ if (need_resched() || !spin_trylock(&q->queue_lock)) {
+ /*
+ * Given that the system can accumulate a huge number
+ * of blkgs in pathological cases, check to see if we
+ * need to rescheduling to avoid softlockup.
+ */
spin_unlock_irq(&blkcg->lock);
- cpu_relax();
+ cond_resched();
spin_lock_irq(&blkcg->lock);
+ continue;
}
+
+ blkg_destroy(blkg);
+ spin_unlock(&q->queue_lock);
}
spin_unlock_irq(&blkcg->lock);