[Devel] [RFC PATCH] sunrpc: do not allow process to freeze within RPC state machine

[Chuck Lever]

> On Aug 3, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 20:54 +0400, Stanislav Kinsburskiy wrote:
>> Otherwise freezer cgroup state might never become "FROZEN".
>> 
>> Here is a deadlock scheme for 2 processes in one freezer cgroup,
>> which is
>> freezing:
>> 
>> CPU 0                                   CPU 1
>> --------                                --------
>> do_last
>> inode_lock(dir->d_inode)
>> vfs_create
>> nfs_create
>> ...
>> __rpc_execute
>> rpc_wait_bit_killable
>> __refrigerator
>>                                         do_last
>>                                         inode_lock(dir->d_inode)
>> 
>> So, the problem is that one process takes directory inode mutex,
>> executes
>> creation request and goes to refrigerator.
>> Another one waits till directory lock is released, remains "thawed"
>> and thus
>> freezer cgroup state never becomes "FROZEN".
>> 
>> Notes:
>> 1) Interesting, that this is not a pure deadlock: one can thaw cgroup
>> and then
>> freeze it again.
>> 2) The issue was introduced by commit
>> d310310cbff18ec385c6ab4d58f33b100192a96a.
>> 3) This patch is not aimed to fix the issue, but to show the problem
>> root.
>> Look like this problem moght be applicable to other hunks from the
>> commit,
>> mentioned above.
>> 
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky at virtuozzo.com>
>> ---
>>  net/sunrpc/sched.c |    1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
>> index 9ae5885..ec7ccc1 100644
>> --- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
>> @@ -253,7 +253,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_destroy_wait_queue);
>>  
>>  static int rpc_wait_bit_killable(struct wait_bit_key *key, int mode)
>>  {
>> -	freezable_schedule_unsafe();
>>  	if (signal_pending_state(mode, current))
>>  		return -ERESTARTSYS;
>>  	return 0;
>> 
> 
> Ummm...so what actually does the schedule() with this patch?
> 
> There was a bit of discussion on this recently -- see the thread with
> this subject line in linux-nfs:
> 
>     Re: Hang due to nfs letting tasks freeze with locked inodes
> 
> Basically it comes down to this:
> 
> All of the proposals so far to fix this problem just switch out the
> freezable_schedule_unsafe (and similar) calls for those that don't
> allow the process to freeze.
> 
> The problem there is that we originally added that stuff in response to
> bug reports about machines failing to suspend. What often happens is
> that the network interfaces come down, and then the freezer runs over
> all of the processes, which never return because they're blocked
> waiting on the server to reply.
> 
> ...shrug...
> 
> Maybe we should just go ahead and do it (and to CIFS as well). Just be
> prepared for the inevitable complaints about laptops failing to suspend
> once you do.
> 
> Part of the fix, I think is to add a return code (similar to
> ERESTARTSYS) that gets interpreted near the kernel-userland boundary
> as: "allow the process to be frozen, and then retry the call once it's
> resumed".
> 
> With that, filesystems could return the error code when they want to
> redrive the entire syscall from that level. That won't work for non-
> idempotent requests though. We'd need to do something more elaborate
> there.

There is a similar problem with NFS/RDMA.

An IB device driver can be unloaded at any time. The driver performs
an upcall to all consumers to request that they release all RDMA
resources associated with the device.

For RPC-over-RDMA, we could kill all running RPCs at this point. Or,
the RPCs could be suspended in place. The latter is desirable if the
device were re-inserted, or there were an alternate path to the NFS
server: then there would be no workload interruption.

Signals would have to be allowed so that ^C and soft timeouts still
work as expected.


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Chuck Lever