[PATCH v1] erofs: Fix detection of atomic context

Gao Xiang hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Wed Jun 21 20:07:48 PDT 2023



On 2023/6/22 06:08, Sandeep Dhavale wrote:
> Current check for atomic context is not sufficient as
> z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio can be called under rcu lock
> from blk_mq_flush_plug_list(). See the stacktrace [1]
> 
> In such case we should hand off the decompression work for async
> processing rather than trying to do sync decompression in current
> context. Patch fixes the detection by checking for
> rcu_read_lock_any_held() and while at it use more appropriate
> !in_task() check than in_atomic().
> 
> Background: Historically erofs would always schedule a kworker for
> decompression which would incur the scheduling cost regardless of
> the context. But z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio() may not always
> be in atomic context and we could actually benefit from doing the
> decompression in z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio() if we are in
> thread context, for example when running with dm-verity.
> This optimization was later added in patch [2] which has shown
> improvement in performance benchmarks.
> 
> ==============================================
> [1] Problem stacktrace
> [name:core&]BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:291
> [name:core&]in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1615, name: CpuMonitorServi
> [name:core&]preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
> [name:core&]RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
> CPU: 7 PID: 1615 Comm: CpuMonitorServi Tainted: G S      W  OE      6.1.25-android14-5-maybe-dirty-mainline #1
> Hardware name: MT6897 (DT)
> Call trace:
>   dump_backtrace+0x108/0x15c
>   show_stack+0x20/0x30
>   dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x8c
>   dump_stack+0x20/0x48
>   __might_resched+0x1fc/0x308
>   __might_sleep+0x50/0x88
>   mutex_lock+0x2c/0x110
>   z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x11c/0xc10
>   z_erofs_decompress_kickoff+0x110/0x1a4
>   z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio+0x154/0x180
>   bio_endio+0x1b0/0x1d8
>   __dm_io_complete+0x22c/0x280
>   clone_endio+0xe4/0x280
>   bio_endio+0x1b0/0x1d8
>   blk_update_request+0x138/0x3a4
>   blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0xd4/0x19c
>   blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x2b0/0x354
>   __blk_flush_plug+0x110/0x160
>   blk_finish_plug+0x30/0x4c
>   read_pages+0x2fc/0x370
>   page_cache_ra_unbounded+0xa4/0x23c
>   page_cache_ra_order+0x290/0x320
>   do_sync_mmap_readahead+0x108/0x2c0
>   filemap_fault+0x19c/0x52c
>   __do_fault+0xc4/0x114
>   handle_mm_fault+0x5b4/0x1168
>   do_page_fault+0x338/0x4b4
>   do_translation_fault+0x40/0x60
>   do_mem_abort+0x60/0xc8
>   el0_da+0x4c/0xe0
>   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xd4/0xfc
>   el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
> 
> [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210317035448.13921-1-huangjianan@oppo.com/
> 
> Reported-by: Will Shiu <Will.Shiu at mediatek.com>
> Suggested-by: Gao Xiang <xiang at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale at google.com>


It looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang



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