Re: [PATCH v3] io_uring: fix poll_list race for SETUP_IOPOLL|SETUP_SQPOLL

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2/24/20 12:03 AM, Xiaoguang Wang wrote:
> After making ext4 support iopoll method:
>   let ext4_file_operations's iopoll method be iomap_dio_iopoll(),
> we found fio can easily hang in fio_ioring_getevents() with below fio
> job:
>     rm -f testfile; sync;
>     sudo fio -name=fiotest -filename=testfile -iodepth=128 -thread
> -rw=write -ioengine=io_uring  -hipri=1 -sqthread_poll=1 -direct=1
> -bs=4k -size=10G -numjobs=8 -runtime=2000 -group_reporting
> with IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL and IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL enabled.
> 
> There are two issues that results in this hang, one reason is that
> when IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL and IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL are enabled, fio
> does not use io_uring_enter to get completed events, it relies on
> kernel io_sq_thread to poll for completed events.
> 
> Another reason is that there is a race: when io_submit_sqes() in
> io_sq_thread() submits a batch of sqes, variable 'inflight' will
> record the number of submitted reqs, then io_sq_thread will poll for
> reqs which have been added to poll_list. But note, if some previous
> reqs have been punted to io worker, these reqs will won't be in
> poll_list timely. io_sq_thread() will only poll for a part of previous
> submitted reqs, and then find poll_list is empty, reset variable
> 'inflight' to be zero. If app just waits these deferred reqs and does
> not wake up io_sq_thread again, then hang happens.
> 
> For app that entirely relies on io_sq_thread to poll completed requests,
> let io_iopoll_req_issued() wake up io_sq_thread properly when adding new
> element to poll_list.

I'm still not a huge fan of this solution. A few comments below:

> +			if (!list_empty(&ctx->poll_list))
> +				io_iopoll_getevents(ctx, &nr_events, 0);
> +			if (list_empty(&ctx->poll_list))
>  				timeout = jiffies + ctx->sq_thread_idle;

Just use an else?

> +			/*
> +			 * While doing polled IO, before going to sleep, we need
> +			 * to check if there are new reqs added to poll_list, it
> +			 * is because reqs may have been punted to io worker and
> +			 * will be added to poll_list later, hence check the
> +			 * poll_list again, meanwhile we need to hold uring_lock
> +			 * to do this check, otherwise we may lose wakeup event
> +			 * in io_iopoll_req_issued().
> +			 */
> +			if (needs_uring_lock) {
> +				mutex_lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
> +				if (!list_empty(&ctx->poll_list)) {
> +					mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
> +					cond_resched();
> +					continue;
> +				}
> +			}

Can't we just put this below the prepare_to_wait? I'm not convinced
this is closing the gaps, there should be no need to hold the uring
lock over this long stretch.

Modified version of yours below


diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
index d961945cb332..ffd9bfa84d86 100644
--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -1821,6 +1821,10 @@ static void io_iopoll_req_issued(struct io_kiocb *req)
 		list_add(&req->list, &ctx->poll_list);
 	else
 		list_add_tail(&req->list, &ctx->poll_list);
+
+	if ((ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL) &&
+	    wq_has_sleeper(&ctx->sqo_wait))
+		wake_up(&ctx->sqo_wait);
 }
 
 static void io_file_put(struct io_submit_state *state)
@@ -5086,9 +5090,8 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 	const struct cred *old_cred;
 	mm_segment_t old_fs;
 	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
-	unsigned inflight;
 	unsigned long timeout;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	complete(&ctx->completions[1]);
 
@@ -5096,39 +5099,19 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 	set_fs(USER_DS);
 	old_cred = override_creds(ctx->creds);
 
-	ret = timeout = inflight = 0;
+	timeout = jiffies + ctx->sq_thread_idle;
 	while (!kthread_should_park()) {
 		unsigned int to_submit;
 
-		if (inflight) {
+		if (!list_empty(&ctx->poll_list)) {
 			unsigned nr_events = 0;
 
-			if (ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL) {
-				/*
-				 * inflight is the count of the maximum possible
-				 * entries we submitted, but it can be smaller
-				 * if we dropped some of them. If we don't have
-				 * poll entries available, then we know that we
-				 * have nothing left to poll for. Reset the
-				 * inflight count to zero in that case.
-				 */
-				mutex_lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
-				if (!list_empty(&ctx->poll_list))
-					io_iopoll_getevents(ctx, &nr_events, 0);
-				else
-					inflight = 0;
-				mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
-			} else {
-				/*
-				 * Normal IO, just pretend everything completed.
-				 * We don't have to poll completions for that.
-				 */
-				nr_events = inflight;
-			}
-
-			inflight -= nr_events;
-			if (!inflight)
+			mutex_lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
+			if (!list_empty(&ctx->poll_list))
+				io_iopoll_getevents(ctx, &nr_events, 0);
+			else
 				timeout = jiffies + ctx->sq_thread_idle;
+			mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
 		}
 
 		to_submit = io_sqring_entries(ctx);
@@ -5157,7 +5140,7 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 			 * more IO, we should wait for the application to
 			 * reap events and wake us up.
 			 */
-			if (inflight ||
+			if (!list_empty(&ctx->poll_list) ||
 			    (!time_after(jiffies, timeout) && ret != -EBUSY &&
 			    !percpu_ref_is_dying(&ctx->refs))) {
 				cond_resched();
@@ -5167,6 +5150,19 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 			prepare_to_wait(&ctx->sqo_wait, &wait,
 						TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
+			/*
+			 * While doing polled IO, before going to sleep, we need
+			 * to check if there are new reqs added to poll_list, it
+			 * is because reqs may have been punted to io worker and
+			 * will be added to poll_list later, hence check the
+			 * poll_list again.
+			 */
+			if ((ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL) &&
+			    !list_empty_careful(&ctx->poll_list)) {
+				finish_wait(&ctx->sqo_wait, &wait);
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			/* Tell userspace we may need a wakeup call */
 			ctx->rings->sq_flags |= IORING_SQ_NEED_WAKEUP;
 			/* make sure to read SQ tail after writing flags */
@@ -5194,8 +5190,7 @@ static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
 		mutex_lock(&ctx->uring_lock);
 		ret = io_submit_sqes(ctx, to_submit, NULL, -1, &cur_mm, true);
 		mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
-		if (ret > 0)
-			inflight += ret;
+		timeout = jiffies + ctx->sq_thread_idle;
 	}
 
 	set_fs(old_fs);

-- 
Jens Axboe