Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] dm-raid: fix v6.7 regressions

[Song Liu]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 1:18 AM Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> First regression related to stop sync thread:
>
> The lifetime of sync_thread is designed as following:
>
> 1) Decide want to start sync_thread, set MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, and wake up
> daemon thread;
> 2) Daemon thread detect that MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED is set, then set
> MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING and register sync_thread;
> 3) Execute md_do_sync() for the actual work, if it's done or
> interrupted, it will set MD_RECOVERY_DONE and wake up daemone thread;
> 4) Daemon thread detect that MD_RECOVERY_DONE is set, then clear
> MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING and unregister sync_thread;
>
> In v6.7, we fix md/raid to follow this design by commit f52f5c71f3d4
> ("md: fix stopping sync thread"), however, dm-raid is not considered at
> that time, and following test will hang:
>
> shell/integrity-caching.sh
> shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh
>
> This patch set fix the broken test by patch 1-4;
>  - patch 1 fix that step 4) is broken by suspended array;
>  - patch 2 fix that step 4) is broken by read-only array;
>  - patch 3 fix that step 3) is broken that md_do_sync() doesn't set
>  MD_RECOVERY_DONE; Noted that this patch will introdece new problem that
>  data will be corrupted, which will be fixed in later patches.
>  - patch 4 fix that setp 1) is broken that sync_thread is register and
>  MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING is set directly;
>
> With patch 1-4, the above test won't hang anymore, however, the test
> will still fail and complain that ext4 is corrupted;
>
> Second regression related to frozen sync thread:
>
> Noted that for raid456, if reshape is interrupted, then call
> "pers->start_reshape" will corrupt data. This is because dm-raid rely on
> md_do_sync() doesn't set MD_RECOVERY_DONE so that new sync_thread won't
> be registered, and patch 3 just break this.
>
>  - Patch 5-6 fix this problem by interrupting reshape and frozen
>  sync_thread in dm_suspend(), then unfrozen and continue reshape in
> dm_resume(). It's verified that dm-raid tests won't complain that
> ext4 is corrupted anymore.
>  - Patch 7 fix the problem that raid_message() call
>  md_reap_sync_thread() directly, without holding 'reconfig_mutex'.
>
> Last regression related to dm-raid456 IO concurrent with reshape:
>
> For raid456, if reshape is still in progress, then IO across reshape
> position will wait for reshape to make progress. However, for dm-raid,
> in following cases reshape will never make progress hence IO will hang:
>
> 1) the array is read-only;
> 2) MD_RECOVERY_WAIT is set;
> 3) MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set;
>
> After commit c467e97f079f ("md/raid6: use valid sector values to determine
> if an I/O should wait on the reshape") fix the problem that IO across
> reshape position doesn't wait for reshape, the dm-raid test
> shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh start to hang at raid5_make_request().
>
> For md/raid, the problem doesn't exist because:
>
> 1) If array is read-only, it can switch to read-write by ioctl/sysfs;
> 2) md/raid never set MD_RECOVERY_WAIT;
> 3) If MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set, mddev_suspend() doesn't hold
>    'reconfig_mutex' anymore, it can be cleared and reshape can continue by
>    sysfs api 'sync_action'.
>
> However, I'm not sure yet how to avoid the problem in dm-raid yet.
>
>  - patch 9-11 fix this problem by detecting the above 3 cases in
>  dm_suspend(), and fail those IO directly.
>
> If user really meet the IO error, then it means they're reading the wrong
> data before c467e97f079f. And it's safe to read/write the array after
> reshape make progress successfully.

c467e97f079f got back ported to stable kernels (6.6.13, for example). We
will need some fixes for them (to fix shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh).

Mikulas and folks, please help review the analysis above and dm-raid
changes. The failure was triggered by c467e97f079f. However, the commit
is doing the right thing, so we really shouldn't revert it.

>
> Tests:
>
> I already run the following two tests many times and verified that they
> won't fail anymore:
>
> shell/integrity-caching.sh
> shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh

shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape-linear_to_raid6-single-type.sh is failing
with upstream + this set. (I need to fix some trivial compilation errors,
which are probably last minute typos).

Thanks,
Song