There is a hang issue while using fio to do some basic test. The issue
can be easily reproduced using the below script:
while true
do
fio --ioengine=io_uring -rw=write -bs=4k -numjobs=1 \
-size=1G -iodepth=64 -name=uring --filename=/dev/zero
done
After several minutes (or more), fio would block at
io_uring_enter->io_cqring_wait in order to waiting for previously
committed sqes to be completed and can't return to user anymore until
we send a SIGTERM to fio. After receiving SIGTERM, fio hangs at
io_ring_ctx_wait_and_kill with a backtrace like this:
[54133.243816] Call Trace:
[54133.243842] __schedule+0x3a0/0x790
[54133.243868] schedule+0x38/0xa0
[54133.243880] schedule_timeout+0x218/0x3b0
[54133.243891] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[54133.243903] ? wait_for_completion+0xa3/0x130
[54133.243916] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x40
[54133.243930] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x3f/0xe0
[54133.243951] wait_for_completion+0xab/0x130
[54133.243962] ? wake_up_q+0x70/0x70
[54133.243984] io_ring_ctx_wait_and_kill+0xa0/0x1d0
[54133.243998] io_uring_release+0x20/0x30
[54133.244008] __fput+0xcf/0x270
[54133.244029] ____fput+0xe/0x10
[54133.244040] task_work_run+0x7f/0xa0
[54133.244056] do_exit+0x305/0xc40
[54133.244067] ? get_signal+0x13b/0xbd0
[54133.244088] do_group_exit+0x50/0xd0
[54133.244103] get_signal+0x18d/0xbd0
[54133.244112] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x60
[54133.244142] do_signal+0x34/0x720
[54133.244171] ? exit_to_usermode_loop+0x7e/0x130
[54133.244190] exit_to_usermode_loop+0xc0/0x130
[54133.244209] do_syscall_64+0x16b/0x1d0
[54133.244221] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
The reason is that we had added a req to ctx->pending_async at the very
end, but it didn't get a chance to be processed. How could this happen?
fio#cpu0 wq#cpu1
io_add_to_prev_work io_sq_wq_submit_work
atomic_read() <<< 1
atomic_dec_return() << 1->0
list_empty(); <<< true;
list_add_tail()
atomic_read() << 0 or 1?
As atomic_ops.rst states, atomic_read does not guarantee that the
runtime modification by any other thread is visible yet, so we must take
care of that with a proper implicit or explicit memory barrier.
This issue was detected with the help of Jackie's <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Fixes: 31b515106428 ("io_uring: allow workqueue item to handle multiple buffered requests")
Signed-off-by: Zhengyuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
ret = true;
spin_lock(&list->lock);
list_add_tail(&req->list, &list->list);
+ /*
+ * Ensure we see a simultaneous modification from io_sq_wq_submit_work()
+ */
+ smp_mb();
if (!atomic_read(&list->cnt)) {
list_del_init(&req->list);
ret = false;