Re: Block layer projects that I haven't had time for

From: Ming Lin
Date: Wed Dec 10 2014 - 18:11:06 EST


> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 02:42:14PM -0800, Ming Lin wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Dongsu Park
>> <dongsu.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the reply.
>> >
>> > On 05.12.2014 19:02, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:00:27PM +0100, Dongsu Park wrote:
>> >> > Playing a little with your block_stuff tree based on 3.15, however,
>> >> > I think there still seems to be a couple of issues.
>> >> > First of all, it doesn't work with virtio-blk. A testing Qemu VM
>> panics
>> >> > at the very early stage of booting. This issue should be addressed
>> as
>> >> > the first step, so that other parts can be tested.
>> >>
>> >> Really? I was testing with virtio-blk, that's odd..
>> >
>> > The culprit seems to be the plugging commit.
>> > Before that change, it works well also with virtio-blk.
>> > Though that's not the only issue...
>> >
>> >> > Moreover, I've already tried to rebase these patches on top of
>> current
>> >> > mainline, 3.18-rc7. It's now compilable, but it seems to introduce
>> >> > more bugs about direct-IO. I didn't manage to find out the reason.
>> >> > I'd need to also look at the previous review comments in [1], [2].
>> >> >
>> >> > Don't you have other trees based on top of 3.17 or higher?
>> >> > If not, can I create my own tree based on 3.18-rc7 to publish?
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, I'd post what you have now and I'll try and take a look.
>> >
>> > I've created a git tree to include what I have right now.
>> > Please see <https://github.com/dongsupark/linux>.
>> >
>> > To be able to handle different issues one by one,
>> > I got the entire tree separated out into 4 branches based on 3.18.
>> >
>> > * block-generic-req-for-next : the most stable branch you can test
>> with.
>> > With this branch, you can test most of block drivers as well as file
>> > systems with less critical bugs. Though it's not 100% perfect yet,
>> > e.g. btrfs doesn't seem to work quite well. Thus more tests are
>> needed.
>> >
>> > * block-mpage-bvecs-for-next : block-generic-req-for-next + multipage
>> bvecs.
>> > This branch shows a critical issue that writing blocks to ext4
>> rootfs
>> > causes the whole system to crash. Need-to-investigate.
>>
>> I tried block-mpage-bvecs-for-next branch on qemu-kvm with ext4 rootfs.
>> Run "sync" will stuck in kernel.
>>
>> [ 480.751901] INFO: task sync:4424 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>> [ 480.753064] Not tainted 3.18.0-00025-g46c8231 #39
>> [ 480.753720] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
>> disables this message.
>> [ 480.754737] sync D ffff88001fc11180 0 4424 4338
>> 0x00000000
>> [ 480.755719] ffff88001cdfbc98 0000000000000086 ffff88001cdfbba8
>> ffff880014adefc0
>> [ 480.756810] 0000000000011180 0000000000004000 ffffffff81813460
>> ffff880014adefc0
>> [ 480.758102] ffff88001cdfbbc8 ffffffff812f08be ffff88001cdfbc18
>> ffff880014adf028
>> [ 480.759454] Call Trace:
>> [ 480.759852] [<ffffffff812f08be>] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x19
>> [ 480.760609] [<ffffffff8106093e>] ? __enqueue_entity+0x69/0x6b
>> [ 480.761318] [<ffffffff8106017e>] ? __dequeue_entity+0x33/0x38
>> [ 480.762026] [<ffffffff810601ab>] ? set_next_entity+0x28/0x7d
>> [ 480.762739] [<ffffffff8105a4fb>] ? get_parent_ip+0xf/0x3f
>> [ 480.763425] [<ffffffff8108562b>] ? ktime_get+0x50/0x8f
>> [ 480.763848] [<ffffffff8148abdb>] ? bit_wait_timeout+0x60/0x60
>> [ 480.764555] [<ffffffff8148a6be>] schedule+0x6a/0x6c
>> [ 480.765186] [<ffffffff8148a74f>] io_schedule+0x8f/0xcd
>> [ 480.765841] [<ffffffff8148ac19>] bit_wait_io+0x3e/0x42
>> [ 480.766493] [<ffffffff8148ae80>] __wait_on_bit+0x4d/0x86
>> [ 480.767183] [<ffffffff810d4302>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x106/0x133
>> [ 480.767847] [<ffffffff810d4a63>] wait_on_page_bit+0x76/0x78
>> [ 480.768532] [<ffffffff8106ab59>] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x2d/0x2d
>> [ 480.769262] [<ffffffff810d511f>] filemap_fdatawait_range+0x7e/0x11d
>> [ 480.769992] [<ffffffff8148a639>] ? preempt_schedule+0x36/0x51
>> [ 480.770677] [<ffffffff8105a4fb>] ? get_parent_ip+0xf/0x3f
>> [ 480.771848] [<ffffffff810d51df>] filemap_fdatawait+0x21/0x23
>> [ 480.772530] [<ffffffff811458ce>] sync_inodes_sb+0x158/0x1aa
>> [ 480.773201] [<ffffffff81480303>] ? br_mdb_dump+0x225/0x495
>> [ 480.773885] [<ffffffff81149ad8>] ? fdatawrite_one_bdev+0x18/0x18
>> [ 480.774592] [<ffffffff81149aec>] sync_inodes_one_sb+0x14/0x16
>> [ 480.775278] [<ffffffff81125937>] iterate_supers+0x6f/0xc4
>> [ 480.775847] [<ffffffff81149bf4>] sys_sync+0x35/0x83
>> [ 480.776460] [<ffffffff8148da52>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
>>
>>
>> Here is a quick hack.
>>
>> diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
>> index 4020ccc..fbc7108 100644
>> --- a/block/bio.c
>> +++ b/block/bio.c
>> @@ -829,6 +829,11 @@ int bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page
>> *page,
>> if (bvec_to_phys(bv) + bv->bv_len ==
>> page_to_phys(page) + offset) {
>> bv->bv_len += len;
>> + /*
>> + * Page is not added to bio vec.
>> + * Clear PG_writeback so
>> filemap_fdatawait_range() won't wait for it.
>> + */
>> + TestClearPageWriteback(page);
>> goto done;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ming
>
> Try this fix:

Yes, it fixed ext4 problem.

Just tried to edit a btrfs file.

[ 45.216351] BTRFS error (device sdb1): partial page write in btrfs with
offset 0 and length 8192
[ 45.217522] BTRFS critical (device sdb1): bad ordered accounting left 0
size 4096

Thanks,
Ming

>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> index b24a2541a9..3d2610b02e 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> @@ -63,15 +63,15 @@ static void buffer_io_error(struct buffer_head *bh)
>
> static void ext4_finish_bio(struct bio *bio)
> {
> - int i;
> int error = !test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags);
> - struct bio_vec *bvec;
> + struct bio_vec bvec;
> + struct bvec_iter iter;
>
> - bio_for_each_segment_all(bvec, bio, i) {
> - struct page *page = bvec->bv_page;
> + bio_for_each_page_all(bvec, bio, iter) {
> + struct page *page = bvec.bv_page;
> struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
> - unsigned bio_start = bvec->bv_offset;
> - unsigned bio_end = bio_start + bvec->bv_len;
> + unsigned bio_start = bvec.bv_offset;
> + unsigned bio_end = bio_start + bvec.bv_len;
> unsigned under_io = 0;
> unsigned long flags;
>
>


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