From 08763907f109ff98c679eb60befc58b50fa395e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Keeping Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 17:27:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched/core: Always flush pending blk_plug [ Upstream commit 401e4963bf45c800e3e9ea0d3a0289d738005fd4 ] With CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, it is possible to hit a deadlock between two normal priority tasks (SCHED_OTHER, nice level zero): INFO: task kworker/u8:0:8 blocked for more than 491 seconds. Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:kworker/u8:0 state:D stack: 0 pid: 8 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000000 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0) [] (__schedule) from [] (schedule+0xdc/0x134) [] (schedule) from [] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0+0xb8/0x174) [] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0) from [] +(rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0+0xac/0x174) [] (rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0) from [] (fat_write_inode+0x34/0x54) [] (fat_write_inode) from [] (__writeback_single_inode+0x354/0x3ec) [] (__writeback_single_inode) from [] (writeback_sb_inodes+0x250/0x45c) [] (writeback_sb_inodes) from [] (__writeback_inodes_wb+0x7c/0xb8) [] (__writeback_inodes_wb) from [] (wb_writeback+0x2c8/0x2e4) [] (wb_writeback) from [] (wb_workfn+0x1a4/0x3e4) [] (wb_workfn) from [] (process_one_work+0x1fc/0x32c) [] (process_one_work) from [] (worker_thread+0x22c/0x2d8) [] (worker_thread) from [] (kthread+0x16c/0x178) [] (kthread) from [] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x38) Exception stack(0xc10e3fb0 to 0xc10e3ff8) 3fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 3fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 INFO: task tar:2083 blocked for more than 491 seconds. Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:tar state:D stack: 0 pid: 2083 ppid: 2082 flags:0x00000000 [] (__schedule) from [] (schedule+0xdc/0x134) [] (schedule) from [] (io_schedule+0x14/0x24) [] (io_schedule) from [] (bit_wait_io+0xc/0x30) [] (bit_wait_io) from [] (__wait_on_bit_lock+0x54/0xa8) [] (__wait_on_bit_lock) from [] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x84/0xb0) [] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock) from [] (fat_mirror_bhs+0xa0/0x144) [] (fat_mirror_bhs) from [] (fat_alloc_clusters+0x138/0x2a4) [] (fat_alloc_clusters) from [] (fat_alloc_new_dir+0x34/0x250) [] (fat_alloc_new_dir) from [] (vfat_mkdir+0x58/0x148) [] (vfat_mkdir) from [] (vfs_mkdir+0x68/0x98) [] (vfs_mkdir) from [] (do_mkdirat+0xb0/0xec) [] (do_mkdirat) from [] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c) Exception stack(0xc2e1bfa8 to 0xc2e1bff0) bfa0: 01ee42f0 01ee4208 01ee42f0 000041ed 00000000 00004000 bfc0: 01ee42f0 01ee4208 00000000 00000027 01ee4302 00000004 000dcb00 01ee4190 bfe0: 000dc368 bed11924 0006d4b0 b6ebddfc Here the kworker is waiting on msdos_sb_info::s_lock which is held by tar which is in turn waiting for a buffer which is locked waiting to be flushed, but this operation is plugged in the kworker. The lock is a normal struct mutex, so tsk_is_pi_blocked() will always return false on !RT and thus the behaviour changes for RT. It seems that the intent here is to skip blk_flush_plug() in the case where a non-preemptible lock (such as a spinlock) has been converted to a rtmutex on RT, which is the case covered by the SM_RTLOCK_WAIT schedule flag. But sched_submit_work() is only called from schedule() which is never called in this scenario, so the check can simply be deleted. Looking at the history of the -rt patchset, in fact this change was present from v5.9.1-rt20 until being dropped in v5.13-rt1 as it was part of a larger patch [1] most of which was replaced by commit b4bfa3fcfe3b ("sched/core: Rework the __schedule() preempt argument"). As described in [1]: The schedule process must distinguish between blocking on a regular sleeping lock (rwsem and mutex) and a RT-only sleeping lock (spinlock and rwlock): - rwsem and mutex must flush block requests (blk_schedule_flush_plug()) even if blocked on a lock. This can not deadlock because this also happens for non-RT. There should be a warning if the scheduling point is within a RCU read section. - spinlock and rwlock must not flush block requests. This will deadlock if the callback attempts to acquire a lock which is already acquired. Similarly to being preempted, there should be no warning if the scheduling point is within a RCU read section. and with the tsk_is_pi_blocked() in the scheduler path, we hit the first issue. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/tree/patches/0022-locking-rtmutex-Use-custom-scheduling-function-for-s.patch?h=linux-5.10.y-rt-patches Signed-off-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220708162702.1758865-1-john@metanate.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- include/linux/sched/rt.h | 8 -------- kernel/sched/core.c | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched/rt.h b/include/linux/sched/rt.h index e5af028c08b4..994c25640e15 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/rt.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/rt.h @@ -39,20 +39,12 @@ static inline struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_task(struct task_struct *p) } extern void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *pi_task); extern void rt_mutex_adjust_pi(struct task_struct *p); -static inline bool tsk_is_pi_blocked(struct task_struct *tsk) -{ - return tsk->pi_blocked_on != NULL; -} #else static inline struct task_struct *rt_mutex_get_top_task(struct task_struct *task) { return NULL; } # define rt_mutex_adjust_pi(p) do { } while (0) -static inline bool tsk_is_pi_blocked(struct task_struct *tsk) -{ - return false; -} #endif extern void normalize_rt_tasks(void); diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index dd11daa7a84b..6baf96d2fa39 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -6460,8 +6460,12 @@ static inline void sched_submit_work(struct task_struct *tsk) io_wq_worker_sleeping(tsk); } - if (tsk_is_pi_blocked(tsk)) - return; + /* + * spinlock and rwlock must not flush block requests. This will + * deadlock if the callback attempts to acquire a lock which is + * already acquired. + */ + SCHED_WARN_ON(current->__state & TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT); /* * If we are going to sleep and we have plugged IO queued,