fs: aio: fix the increment of aio-nr and counting against aio-max-nr

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1718397
Currently, aio-nr is incremented in steps of 'num_possible_cpus() * 8'
for io_setup(nr_events, ..) with 'nr_events < num_possible_cpus() * 4':

    ioctx_alloc()
    ...
        nr_events = max(nr_events, num_possible_cpus() * 4);
        nr_events *= 2;
    ...
        ctx->max_reqs = nr_events;
    ...
        aio_nr += ctx->max_reqs;
    ....

This limits the number of aio contexts actually available to much less
than aio-max-nr, and is increasingly worse with greater number of CPUs.

For example, with 64 CPUs, only 256 aio contexts are actually available
(with aio-max-nr = 65536) because the increment is 512 in that scenario.

Note: 65536 [max aio contexts] / (64*4*2) [increment per aio context]
is 128, but make it 256 (double) as counting against 'aio-max-nr * 2':

    ioctx_alloc()
    ...
        if (aio_nr + nr_events > (aio_max_nr * 2UL) ||
        ...
            goto err_ctx;
    ...

This patch uses the original value of nr_events (from userspace) to
increment aio-nr and count against aio-max-nr, which resolves those.

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Lekshmi C. Pillai <lekshmi.cpillai@in.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Lekshmi C. Pillai <lekshmi.cpillai@in.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Nguyen <nguyenp@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2a8a98673c13cb2a61a6476153acf8344adfa992)
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index dcad3a66748c041a48588b612f85fae78086f5f5..8f01275262997740faefa54301189dfab163835f 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -441,10 +441,9 @@ static const struct address_space_operations aio_ctx_aops = {
 #endif
 };
 
-static int aio_setup_ring(struct kioctx *ctx)
+static int aio_setup_ring(struct kioctx *ctx, unsigned int nr_events)
 {
        struct aio_ring *ring;
-       unsigned nr_events = ctx->max_reqs;
        struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
        unsigned long size, unused;
        int nr_pages;
@@ -706,6 +705,12 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
        struct kioctx *ctx;
        int err = -ENOMEM;
 
+       /*
+        * Store the original nr_events -- what userspace passed to io_setup(),
+        * for counting against the global limit -- before it changes.
+        */
+       unsigned int max_reqs = nr_events;
+
        /*
         * We keep track of the number of available ringbuffer slots, to prevent
         * overflow (reqs_available), and we also use percpu counters for this.
@@ -724,14 +729,14 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
                return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
        }
 
-       if (!nr_events || (unsigned long)nr_events > (aio_max_nr * 2UL))
+       if (!nr_events || (unsigned long)max_reqs > aio_max_nr)
                return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
 
        ctx = kmem_cache_zalloc(kioctx_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!ctx)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-       ctx->max_reqs = nr_events;
+       ctx->max_reqs = max_reqs;
 
        spin_lock_init(&ctx->ctx_lock);
        spin_lock_init(&ctx->completion_lock);
@@ -753,7 +758,7 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
        if (!ctx->cpu)
                goto err;
 
-       err = aio_setup_ring(ctx);
+       err = aio_setup_ring(ctx, nr_events);
        if (err < 0)
                goto err;
 
@@ -764,8 +769,8 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
 
        /* limit the number of system wide aios */
        spin_lock(&aio_nr_lock);
-       if (aio_nr + nr_events > (aio_max_nr * 2UL) ||
-           aio_nr + nr_events < aio_nr) {
+       if (aio_nr + ctx->max_reqs > aio_max_nr ||
+           aio_nr + ctx->max_reqs < aio_nr) {
                spin_unlock(&aio_nr_lock);
                err = -EAGAIN;
                goto err_ctx;