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authorMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>2019-11-11 18:19:00 -0600
committerChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2020-01-28 10:09:51 +0100
commit8d19f1c8e1937baf74e1962aae9f90fa3aeab463 (patch)
treef945f272e46221a23329ecb52be90e91e4af12c7 /kernel/sys.c
parent913292c97d750fe4188b4f5aa770e5e0ca1e5a91 (diff)
prctl: PR_{G,S}ET_IO_FLUSHER to support controlling memory reclaim
There are several storage drivers like dm-multipath, iscsi, tcmu-runner, amd nbd that have userspace components that can run in the IO path. For example, iscsi and nbd's userspace deamons may need to recreate a socket and/or send IO on it, and dm-multipath's daemon multipathd may need to send SG IO or read/write IO to figure out the state of paths and re-set them up. In the kernel these drivers have access to GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS and the memalloc_*_save/restore functions to control the allocation behavior, but for userspace we would end up hitting an allocation that ended up writing data back to the same device we are trying to allocate for. The device is then in a state of deadlock, because to execute IO the device needs to allocate memory, but to allocate memory the memory layers want execute IO to the device. Here is an example with nbd using a local userspace daemon that performs network IO to a remote server. We are using XFS on top of the nbd device, but it can happen with any FS or other modules layered on top of the nbd device that can write out data to free memory. Here a nbd daemon helper thread, msgr-worker-1, is performing a write/sendmsg on a socket to execute a request. This kicks off a reclaim operation which results in a WRITE to the nbd device and the nbd thread calling back into the mm layer. [ 1626.609191] msgr-worker-1 D 0 1026 1 0x00004000 [ 1626.609193] Call Trace: [ 1626.609195] ? __schedule+0x29b/0x630 [ 1626.609197] ? wait_for_completion+0xe0/0x170 [ 1626.609198] schedule+0x30/0xb0 [ 1626.609200] schedule_timeout+0x1f6/0x2f0 [ 1626.609202] ? blk_finish_plug+0x21/0x2e [ 1626.609204] ? _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x2e6/0x410 [ 1626.609206] ? wait_for_completion+0xe0/0x170 [ 1626.609208] wait_for_completion+0x108/0x170 [ 1626.609210] ? wake_up_q+0x70/0x70 [ 1626.609212] ? __xfs_buf_submit+0x12e/0x250 [ 1626.609214] ? xfs_bwrite+0x25/0x60 [ 1626.609215] xfs_buf_iowait+0x22/0xf0 [ 1626.609218] __xfs_buf_submit+0x12e/0x250 [ 1626.609220] xfs_bwrite+0x25/0x60 [ 1626.609222] xfs_reclaim_inode+0x2e8/0x310 [ 1626.609224] xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag+0x1b6/0x300 [ 1626.609227] xfs_reclaim_inodes_nr+0x31/0x40 [ 1626.609228] super_cache_scan+0x152/0x1a0 [ 1626.609231] do_shrink_slab+0x12c/0x2d0 [ 1626.609233] shrink_slab+0x9c/0x2a0 [ 1626.609235] shrink_node+0xd7/0x470 [ 1626.609237] do_try_to_free_pages+0xbf/0x380 [ 1626.609240] try_to_free_pages+0xd9/0x1f0 [ 1626.609245] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x3a4/0xd30 [ 1626.609251] ? ___slab_alloc+0x238/0x560 [ 1626.609254] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x30c/0x350 [ 1626.609259] skb_page_frag_refill+0x97/0xd0 [ 1626.609274] sk_page_frag_refill+0x1d/0x80 [ 1626.609279] tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x2bb/0xdd0 [ 1626.609304] tcp_sendmsg+0x27/0x40 [ 1626.609307] sock_sendmsg+0x54/0x60 [ 1626.609308] ___sys_sendmsg+0x29f/0x320 [ 1626.609313] ? sock_poll+0x66/0xb0 [ 1626.609318] ? ep_item_poll.isra.15+0x40/0xc0 [ 1626.609320] ? ep_send_events_proc+0xe6/0x230 [ 1626.609322] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x54/0xf0 [ 1626.609324] ? ep_read_events_proc+0xc0/0xc0 [ 1626.609326] ? _raw_write_unlock_irq+0xa/0x20 [ 1626.609327] ? ep_scan_ready_list.constprop.19+0x218/0x230 [ 1626.609329] ? __hrtimer_init+0xb0/0xb0 [ 1626.609331] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xa/0x20 [ 1626.609334] ? ep_poll+0x26c/0x4a0 [ 1626.609337] ? tcp_tsq_write.part.54+0xa0/0xa0 [ 1626.609339] ? release_sock+0x43/0x90 [ 1626.609341] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0xa/0x20 [ 1626.609342] __sys_sendmsg+0x47/0x80 [ 1626.609347] do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x1c0 [ 1626.609349] ? prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x75/0xa0 [ 1626.609351] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 This patch adds a new prctl command that daemons can use after they have done their initial setup, and before they start to do allocations that are in the IO path. It sets the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO and PF_LESS_THROTTLE flags so both userspace block and FS threads can use it to avoid the allocation recursion and try to prevent from being throttled while writing out data to free up memory. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Tested-by: Masato Suzuki <masato.suzuki@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112001900.9206-1-mchristi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c25
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index a9331f101883..f9bc5c303e3f 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2261,6 +2261,8 @@ int __weak arch_prctl_spec_ctrl_set(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long which,
return -EINVAL;
}
+#define PR_IO_FLUSHER (PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO | PF_LESS_THROTTLE)
+
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
unsigned long, arg4, unsigned long, arg5)
{
@@ -2488,6 +2490,29 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
return -EINVAL;
error = GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL();
break;
+ case PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER:
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ if (arg3 || arg4 || arg5)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (arg2 == 1)
+ current->flags |= PR_IO_FLUSHER;
+ else if (!arg2)
+ current->flags &= ~PR_IO_FLUSHER;
+ else
+ return -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ case PR_GET_IO_FLUSHER:
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ error = (current->flags & PR_IO_FLUSHER) == PR_IO_FLUSHER;
+ break;
default:
error = -EINVAL;
break;