linux/block
Paolo Valente 99fead8d38 block, bfq: fix unbalanced decrements of burst size
The commit "block, bfq: decrease burst size when queues in burst
exit" introduced the decrement of burst_size on the removal of a
bfq_queue from the burst list. Unfortunately, this decrement can
happen to be performed even when burst size is already equal to 0,
because of unbalanced decrements. A description follows of the cause
of these unbalanced decrements, namely a wrong assumption, and of the
way how this wrong assumption leads to unbalanced decrements.

The wrong assumption is that a bfq_queue can exit only if the process
associated with the bfq_queue has exited. This is false, because a
bfq_queue, say Q, may exit also as a consequence of a merge with
another bfq_queue. In this case, Q exits because the I/O of its
associated process has been redirected to another bfq_queue.

The decrement unbalance occurs because Q may then be re-created after
a split, and added back to the current burst list, *without*
incrementing burst_size. burst_size is not incremented because Q is
not a new bfq_queue added to the burst list, but a bfq_queue only
temporarily removed from the list, and, before the commit "bfq-sq,
bfq-mq: decrease burst size when queues in burst exit", burst_size was
not decremented when Q was removed.

This commit addresses this issue by just checking whether the exiting
bfq_queue is a merged bfq_queue, and, in that case, not decrementing
burst_size. Unfortunately, this still leaves room for unbalanced
decrements, in the following rarer case: on a split, the bfq_queue
happens to be inserted into a different burst list than that it was
removed from when merged. If this happens, the number of elements in
the new burst list becomes higher than burst_size (by one). When the
bfq_queue then exits, it is of course not in a merged state any
longer, thus burst_size is decremented, which results in an unbalanced
decrement.  To handle this sporadic, unlucky case in a simple way,
this commit also checks that burst_size is larger than 0 before
decrementing it.

Finally, this commit removes an useless, extra check: the check that
the bfq_queue is sync, performed before checking whether the bfq_queue
is in the burst list. This extra check is redundant, because only sync
bfq_queues can be inserted into the burst list.

Fixes: 7cb04004fa ("block, bfq: decrease burst size when queues in burst exit")
Reported-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Angelo Ruocco <angeloruocco90@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Lee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-09 09:54:58 -06:00
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partitions partitions/ldm: switch to use uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:14 +02:00
badblocks.c block: Add fallthrough markers to switch statements 2017-06-21 11:46:07 -06:00
bfq-cgroup.c bfq: Declare local functions static 2017-09-01 13:56:37 -06:00
bfq-iosched.c block, bfq: fix unbalanced decrements of burst size 2017-10-09 09:54:58 -06:00
bfq-iosched.h Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-09-07 11:59:42 -07:00
bfq-wf2q.c block, bfq: guarantee update_next_in_service always returns an eligible entity 2017-08-31 08:20:31 -06:00
bio-integrity.c block: remove unnecessary NULL checks in bioset_integrity_free() 2017-10-06 13:03:12 -06:00
bio.c block/bio: Remove null checks before mempool_destroy in bioset_free 2017-10-06 13:03:14 -06:00
blk-cgroup.c blkcg: avoid free blkcg_root when failed to alloc blkcg policy 2017-08-25 13:51:07 -06:00
blk-core.c block: move __elv_next_request to blk-core.c 2017-10-03 08:43:04 -06:00
blk-exec.c block: introduce new block status code type 2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
blk-flush.c block: update comments to reflect REQ_FLUSH -> REQ_PREFLUSH rename 2017-08-25 10:36:54 -06:00
blk-integrity.c block: switch bios to blk_status_t 2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
blk-ioc.c
blk-lib.c block: fix integer overflow in __blkdev_sectors_to_bio_pages() 2017-09-11 09:46:49 -06:00
blk-map.c blk-map: call blk_queue_bounce from blk_rq_append_bio 2017-06-27 12:13:21 -06:00
blk-merge.c block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index 2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
blk-mq-cpumap.c blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs 2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
blk-mq-debugfs.c block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE 2017-10-05 15:22:59 -06:00
blk-mq-debugfs.h mq-deadline: add debugfs attributes 2017-05-04 08:25:17 -06:00
blk-mq-pci.c blk-mq-pci: add a fallback when pci_irq_get_affinity returns NULL 2017-08-18 08:08:14 -06:00
blk-mq-rdma.c block: Add rdma affinity based queue mapping helper 2017-08-08 14:58:03 -04:00
blk-mq-sched.c blk-mq-sched: fix performance regression of mq-deadline 2017-07-03 16:54:09 -06:00
blk-mq-sched.h Merge commit '8e8320c9315c' into for-4.13/block 2017-06-22 21:55:24 -06:00
blk-mq-sysfs.c blk-mq: untangle debugfs and sysfs 2017-05-04 08:24:13 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.c blk-mq: Make blk_mq_reinit_tagset() calls easier to read 2017-08-18 08:36:58 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.h blk-mq-tag: kill unused tag enums 2017-10-01 01:26:21 -06:00
blk-mq-virtio.c
blk-mq.c blk-mq: document the need to have STARTED and COMPLETED share a byte 2017-10-04 11:22:24 -06:00
blk-mq.h block: directly insert blk-mq request from blk_insert_cloned_request() 2017-09-11 16:43:57 -06:00
blk-settings.c block: Warn if blk_queue_rq_timed_out() is called for a blk-mq queue 2017-08-23 12:02:30 -06:00
blk-softirq.c smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data 2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
blk-stat.c blk-stat: don't use this_cpu_ptr() in a preemptable section 2017-05-10 07:40:18 -06:00
blk-stat.h blk-stat: kill blk_stat_rq_ddir() 2017-04-21 07:56:23 -06:00
blk-sysfs.c block: fix warning when I/O elevator is changed as request_queue is being removed 2017-08-28 10:52:44 -06:00
blk-tag.c block: Unexport blk_queue_end_tag() 2017-08-18 08:36:58 -06:00
blk-throttle.c Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-09-07 11:59:42 -07:00
blk-timeout.c blk-mq: attempt to fix atomic flag memory ordering 2017-10-04 11:20:11 -06:00
blk-wbt.c block,bfq: Disable writeback throttling 2017-10-09 08:29:21 -06:00
blk-wbt.h block: Make writeback throttling defaults consistent for SQ devices 2017-04-19 08:49:03 -06:00
blk-zoned.c block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index 2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
blk.h blk-mq: document the need to have STARTED and COMPLETED share a byte 2017-10-04 11:22:24 -06:00
bounce.c block: remove the queue_bounce_pfn helper 2017-06-27 12:13:45 -06:00
bsg-lib.c bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job 2017-09-25 08:56:05 -06:00
bsg.c bsg: remove #if 0'ed code 2017-08-29 10:50:30 -06:00
cfq-iosched.c block/cfq: cache rightmost rb_node 2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
cmdline-parser.c
compat_ioctl.c compat_hdio_ioctl: Fix a declaration 2017-08-31 17:32:41 -04:00
deadline-iosched.c block, scheduler: convert xxx_var_store to void 2017-08-28 10:01:08 -06:00
elevator.c block: remove QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE 2017-10-05 15:22:59 -06:00
genhd.c Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-09-07 11:59:42 -07:00
ioctl.c
ioprio.c block: Add fallthrough markers to switch statements 2017-06-21 11:46:07 -06:00
Kconfig block: Add rdma affinity based queue mapping helper 2017-08-08 14:58:03 -04:00
Kconfig.iosched block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support 2017-04-19 08:30:26 -06:00
kyber-iosched.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-03 13:08:04 -07:00
Makefile block: Add rdma affinity based queue mapping helper 2017-08-08 14:58:03 -04:00
mq-deadline.c mq-deadline: Enable auto-loading when built as module 2017-08-29 10:47:23 -06:00
noop-iosched.c
opal_proto.h block: sed-opal: Set MBRDone on S3 resume path if TPER is MBREnabled 2017-09-11 09:45:52 -06:00
partition-generic.c block: fix a crash caused by wrong API 2017-09-25 08:56:05 -06:00
scsi_ioctl.c block: Change argument type of scsi_req_init() 2017-06-20 19:27:14 -06:00
sed-opal.c block: sed-opal: Set MBRDone on S3 resume path if TPER is MBREnabled 2017-09-11 09:45:52 -06:00
t10-pi.c t10-pi: Move opencoded contants to common header 2017-07-03 16:56:25 -06:00