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dm: fix bio polling to handle possibile BLK_STS_AGAIN

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Expanded testing of DM's bio polling support (using more fio threads
to dm-linear ontop of null_blk) exposed the possibility for polled
bios to hang (repeatedly polling in io_uring) when null_blk responds
with BLK_STS_AGAIN (due to lack of resources):

1) io_complete_rw_iopoll() is called from blkdev_bio_end_io_async() to
   notify kiocb is done, that is the completion interface between block
   layer and io_uring

2) io_complete_rw_iopoll() is called from io_do_iopoll()

3) dm returns BLK_STS_AGAIN for one bio (on behalf of underlying
   driver), then io_complete_rw_iopoll is called, but io_do_iopoll()
   doesn't handle -EAGAIN at all (due to logic in io_rw_should_reissue)

4) reason for dm's BLK_STS_AGAIN is underlying null_blk driver ran out
   of requests (easier to reproduce by setting low hw_queue_depth).

5) dm should handle BLK_STS_AGAIN for POLLED underlying IO, and may
   retry in dm layer.

This fix adds REQ_POLLED specific BLK_STS_AGAIN handling to
dm_io_complete() that clears REQ_POLLED and requeues the bio to DM
using queue_io().

Fixes: b99fdcdc36 ("dm: support bio polling")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
[snitzer: revised header, reused dm_io_complete's REQ_POLLED case]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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Ming Lei 2022-04-01 09:47:32 -04:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent aad5b23ebf
commit 5291984004
1 changed files with 13 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -892,13 +892,19 @@ static void dm_io_complete(struct dm_io *io)
if (unlikely(wq_has_sleeper(&md->wait)))
wake_up(&md->wait);
if (io_error == BLK_STS_DM_REQUEUE) {
/*
* Upper layer won't help us poll split bio, io->orig_bio
* may only reflect a subset of the pre-split original,
* so clear REQ_POLLED in case of requeue
*/
bio->bi_opf &= ~REQ_POLLED;
if (io_error == BLK_STS_DM_REQUEUE || io_error == BLK_STS_AGAIN) {
if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_POLLED) {
/*
* Upper layer won't help us poll split bio (io->orig_bio
* may only reflect a subset of the pre-split original)
* so clear REQ_POLLED in case of requeue.
*/
bio->bi_opf &= ~REQ_POLLED;
if (io_error == BLK_STS_AGAIN) {
/* io_uring doesn't handle BLK_STS_AGAIN (yet) */
queue_io(md, bio);
}
}
return;
}