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ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

PATCH Superseded Eric Sandeen 4 participants 14 messages Jan 13, 2011 – Feb 23, 2012 ext4 file system

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PATCH 1/1 ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new" block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here. This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the work queue to do conversions - which must also take the i_mutex. So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower (14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned) but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that perhaps we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on that instead so that non-sparse files won't be affected, but I've had trouble making that work so far, and would like to get the corruption hole plugged ASAP. Perhaps adding a prink_once() warning of the perf degradation on this path would be useful?

---

fs/ext4/ext4.h +1 -0
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h
===================================================================
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 	atomic_t i_ioend_count;	/* Number of outstanding io_end structs */
 	/* current io_end structure for async DIO write*/
 	ext4_io_end_t *cur_aio_dio;
+	struct mutex i_aio_mutex; /* big hammer for unaligned AIO */
 
 	spinlock_t i_block_reservation_lock;
 
fs/ext4/file.c +33 -1
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/file.c
===================================================================
@@ -55,11 +55,31 @@ static int ext4_release_file(struct inod
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int
+ext4_unaligned_aio(struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+	int blockmask = sb->s_blocksize - 1;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+	loff_t final_size = pos + count;
+
+	if (pos >= inode->i_size)
+		return 0;
+
+	if ((pos & blockmask) || (final_size & blockmask))
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static ssize_t
 ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+	int unaligned_aio = 0;
+	int ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we have encountered a bitmap-format file, the size limit
@@ -78,9 +98,21 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, cons
 			nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs,
 					      sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes - pos);
 		}
+	} else if (unlikely((iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) &&
+		            !is_sync_kiocb(iocb)))
+		unaligned_aio = ext4_unaligned_aio(inode, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+
+	if (unaligned_aio) {
+		mutex_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_mutex);
+		ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
 	}
 
-	return generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+
+	if (unaligned_aio)
+		mutex_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = {
fs/ext4/super.c +1 -0
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c
===================================================================
@@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ static void init_once(void *foo)
 	init_rwsem(&ei->xattr_sem);
 #endif
 	init_rwsem(&ei->i_data_sem);
+	mutex_init(&ei->i_aio_mutex);
 	inode_init_once(&ei->vfs_inode);
 }
 
maintainer
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Quoted 6 lines · Eric Sandeen

Mingming suggested that perhaps we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on that instead so that non-sparse files won't be affected, but I've had trouble making that work so far, and would like to get the corruption hole plugged ASAP. Perhaps adding a prink_once() warning of the perf degradation on this path would be useful?

Yeah, I think a printk_once(), or maybe better yet, a warning ext4_msg() ratelimited to once a day, is the way to go. I'd print the inode number and process name that did the offending async DIO, so it can help out the system administrator.

I've looked over the rest of the patch, and it seems good. Just one question:

fs/ext4/file.c static int ext4_release_file(struct inod · line 68

Quoted 11 lines
fs/ext4/file.c +11 -0
+static int
+ext4_unaligned_aio(struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+	int blockmask = sb->s_blocksize - 1;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+	loff_t final_size = pos + count;
+
+	if (pos >= inode->i_size)
+		return 0;

Why is it ok if the write is extended the file? Are you depending on some other lock (i_data_sem, perhaps?) to serialize the write in that case? If so, could you please add a comment to that effect?

- Ted

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Quoted 8 lines · Ted Ts'o
Quoted 6 lines · Eric Sandeen

Mingming suggested that perhaps we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on that instead so that non-sparse files won't be affected, but I've had trouble making that work so far, and would like to get the corruption hole plugged ASAP. Perhaps adding a prink_once() warning of the perf degradation on this path would be useful?

Quoted 4 lines

Yeah, I think a printk_once(), or maybe better yet, a warning ext4_msg() ratelimited to once a day, is the way to go. I'd print the inode number and process name that did the offending async DIO, so it can help out the system administrator.

I'll add something like that.

Quoted 18 lines

I've looked over the rest of the patch, and it seems good. Just one question:

fs/ext4/file.c static int ext4_release_file(struct inod · line 68

Quoted 11 lines
fs/ext4/file.c +11 -0
+static int
+ext4_unaligned_aio(struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+	int blockmask = sb->s_blocksize - 1;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+	loff_t final_size = pos + count;
+
+	if (pos >= inode->i_size)
+		return 0;

Why is it ok if the write is extended the file? Are you depending on some other lock (i_data_sem, perhaps?) to serialize the write in that case? If so, could you please add a comment to that effect?

We only have this problem if we are going down the unwritten extent route, which only happens for writes inside i_size:

        if (rw == WRITE && final_size <= inode->i_size) {
                /*
                 * We could direct write to holes and fallocate.
		   ...

I can add a comment, good point. In fact I'll liberally add a few comments, sorry, I usually do that but didn't tidy this patch up prior to sending. :)

-Eric

Quoted 1 line

- Ted

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PATCH v2 1/1 ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

In reply to Ted Ts'o

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new" block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here. This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the work queue to do conversions - which must also take the i_mutex. So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower (14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned) but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that perhaps we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on that instead so that non-sparse files won't be affected, but I've had trouble making that work so far, and would like to get the corruption hole plugged ASAP. Perhaps adding a prink_once() warning of the perf degradation on this path would be useful?

---

V2: Add comments and daily printk

fs/ext4/ext4.h +1 -0
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h
===================================================================
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 	atomic_t i_ioend_count;	/* Number of outstanding io_end structs */
 	/* current io_end structure for async DIO write*/
 	ext4_io_end_t *cur_aio_dio;
+	struct mutex i_aio_mutex; /* big hammer for unaligned AIO */
 
 	spinlock_t i_block_reservation_lock;
 
fs/ext4/file.c +53 -1

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fs/ext4/super.c +1 -0
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c
===================================================================
@@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ static void init_once(void *foo)
 	init_rwsem(&ei->xattr_sem);
 #endif
 	init_rwsem(&ei->i_data_sem);
+	mutex_init(&ei->i_aio_mutex);
 	inode_init_once(&ei->vfs_inode);
 }
 
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Quoted 6 lines · Eric Sandeen

Mingming suggested that perhaps we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on that instead so that non-sparse files won't be affected, but I've had trouble making that work so far, and would like to get the corruption hole plugged ASAP. Perhaps adding a prink_once() warning of the perf degradation on this path would be useful?

Ted, if you haven't merged this already, you might hold off.

I've got a version going which only synchronizes IO on the inode if there is a pending unwritten extent conversion, which speeds things up a bit. It's still not the most optimal solution for this suboptimal workload, but it's as simple as the one proposed here, and faster.

I'll send in a bit.

-Eric

Quoted 109 lines

---

V2: Add comments and daily printk

Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h
===================================================================

fs/ext4/ext4.h +1 -0
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 	atomic_t i_ioend_count;	/* Number of outstanding io_end structs */
 	/* current io_end structure for async DIO write*/
 	ext4_io_end_t *cur_aio_dio;
+	struct mutex i_aio_mutex; /* big hammer for unaligned AIO */
 
 	spinlock_t i_block_reservation_lock;
 

Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/file.c
===================================================================

fs/ext4/file.c +53 -1
@@ -55,11 +55,42 @@ static int ext4_release_file(struct inod
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This tests whether the IO in question is block-aligned or
+ * not.  ext4 utilizes unwritten extents when hole-filling
+ * during direct IO, and they are converted to written only
+ * after the IO is complete.  Until they are mapped, these
+ * blocks appear as holes, so dio_zero_block() will assume
+ * that it needs to zero out portions of the start and/or
+ * end block.  If 2 AIO threads are at work on the same block,
+ * they must be synchronized or one thread will zero the others'
+ * data, causing corruption.
+ */
+static int
+ext4_unaligned_aio(struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+	int blockmask = sb->s_blocksize - 1;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+	loff_t final_size = pos + count;
+
+	if (pos >= inode->i_size)
+		return 0;
+
+	if ((pos & blockmask) || (final_size & blockmask))
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static ssize_t
 ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+	int unaligned_aio = 0;
+	int ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * If we have encountered a bitmap-format file, the size limit
@@ -78,9 +109,30 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, cons
 			nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs,
 					      sbi->s_bitmap_maxbytes - pos);
 		}
+	} else if (unlikely((iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) &&
+		            !is_sync_kiocb(iocb)))
+		unaligned_aio = ext4_unaligned_aio(inode, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+
+	/* Unaligned direct AIO must be serialized; see comment above */
+	if (unaligned_aio) {
+		static unsigned long unaligned_warn_time;
+
+		/* Warn about this once per day */
+		if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&unaligned_warn_time, 60*60*24*HZ))
+			ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_WARNING,
+				 "Unaligned AIO/DIO on inode %ld by %s; "
+				 "performance will be poor.",
+				 inode->i_ino, current->comm);
+		mutex_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_mutex);
+		ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
 	}
 
-	return generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
+
+	if (unaligned_aio)
+		mutex_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aio_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = {

Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c
===================================================================

fs/ext4/super.c +1 -0
@@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ static void init_once(void *foo)
 	init_rwsem(&ei->xattr_sem);
 #endif
 	init_rwsem(&ei->i_data_sem);
+	mutex_init(&ei->i_aio_mutex);
 	inode_init_once(&ei->vfs_inode);
 }
 
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In reply to Eric Sandeen
Quoted 31 lines · Eric Sandeen

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new" block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here. This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the work queue to do conversions - which must also take the i_mutex. So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower (14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned) but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Quoted 7 lines

Mingming suggested that perhaps we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on that instead so that non-sparse files won't be affected, but I've had trouble making that work so far, and would like to get the corruption hole plugged ASAP. Perhaps adding a prink_once() warning of the perf degradation on this path would be useful?

I've sent a patch to do the above, as V3, twice now, but the list is eating it. Ted, you were cc'd so hopefully you got it?

-Eric

#6 lore raw

PATCH RESEND v3 1/1 ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

In reply to Eric Sandeen

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new" block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here. The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO. This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the work queue to do conversions - which must also take the i_mutex. So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower (14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned) but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here; unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.

---

V2: Add comments and daily printk
V3: Only do serialization when there are outstanding conversions

fs/ext4/ext4.h +7 -0
Index: linux-2.6-bisect/fs/ext4/ext4.h
===================================================================
@@ -859,6 +859,8 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 	/* current io_end structure for async DIO write*/
 	ext4_io_end_t *cur_aio_dio;
 	atomic_t i_ioend_count;	/* Number of outstanding io_end structs */
+	atomic_t i_aiodio_unwritten; /* Nr. of inflight conversions pending */
+	struct mutex i_aio_mutex; /* big hammer for unaligned AIO */
 
 	/*
 	 * Transactions that contain inode's metadata needed to complete
@@ -2100,6 +2102,11 @@ static inline void set_bitmap_uptodate(s
 
 #define in_range(b, first, len)	((b) >= (first) && (b) <= (first) + (len) - 1)
 
+/* For ioend & aio unwritten conversion wait queues */
+#define WQ_HASH_SZ		37
+#define to_ioend_wq(v)	(&ioend_wq[((unsigned long)v) % WQ_HASH_SZ])
+extern wait_queue_head_t ioend_wq[WQ_HASH_SZ];
+
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif	/* _EXT4_H */
fs/ext4/extents.c +6 -4
Index: linux-2.6-bisect/fs/ext4/extents.c
===================================================================
@@ -3154,9 +3154,10 @@ ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(ha
 		 * that this IO needs to convertion to written when IO is
 		 * completed
 		 */
-		if (io)
+		if (io && !(io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
 			io->flag = EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
-		else
+			atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+		} else
 			ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
 		if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode))
 			map->m_flags |= EXT4_MAP_UNINIT;
@@ -3446,9 +3447,10 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle
 		 * that we need to perform convertion when IO is done.
 		 */
 		if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO)) {
-			if (io)
+			if (io && !(io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
 				io->flag = EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
-			else
+				atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+			} else
 				ext4_set_inode_state(inode,
 						     EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
 		}
fs/ext4/file.c +59 -1

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fs/ext4/page-io.c +12 -4
Index: linux-2.6-bisect/fs/ext4/page-io.c
===================================================================
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@
 
 static struct kmem_cache *io_page_cachep, *io_end_cachep;
 
-#define WQ_HASH_SZ		37
-#define to_ioend_wq(v)	(&ioend_wq[((unsigned long)v) % WQ_HASH_SZ])
-static wait_queue_head_t ioend_wq[WQ_HASH_SZ];
+wait_queue_head_t ioend_wq[WQ_HASH_SZ];
 
 int __init ext4_init_pageio(void)
 {
@@ -102,6 +100,7 @@ int ext4_end_io_nolock(ext4_io_end_t *io
 	struct inode *inode = io->inode;
 	loff_t offset = io->offset;
 	ssize_t size = io->size;
+	wait_queue_head_t *wq;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	ext4_debug("ext4_end_io_nolock: io 0x%p from inode %lu,list->next 0x%p,"
@@ -126,7 +125,16 @@ int ext4_end_io_nolock(ext4_io_end_t *io
 	if (io->iocb)
 		aio_complete(io->iocb, io->result, 0);
 	/* clear the DIO AIO unwritten flag */
-	io->flag &= ~EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+	if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN) {
+		io->flag &= ~EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+		/* Wake up anyone waiting on unwritten extent conversion */
+		wq = to_ioend_wq(io->inode);
+		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten) &&
+		    waitqueue_active(wq)) {
+			wake_up_all(wq);
+		}
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
fs/ext4/super.c +2 -0
Index: linux-2.6-bisect/fs/ext4/super.c
===================================================================
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(st
 	ei->i_sync_tid = 0;
 	ei->i_datasync_tid = 0;
 	atomic_set(&ei->i_ioend_count, 0);
+	atomic_set(&ei->i_aiodio_unwritten, 0);
 
 	return &ei->vfs_inode;
 }
@@ -865,6 +866,7 @@ static void init_once(void *foo)
 	init_rwsem(&ei->xattr_sem);
 #endif
 	init_rwsem(&ei->i_data_sem);
+	mutex_init(&ei->i_aio_mutex);
 	inode_init_once(&ei->vfs_inode);
 }
 
maintainer
#7 lore raw

ACK, I'll be catching up on bug fix patches to send to Linus over the weekend.

- Ted

maintainer
#8 lore raw
In reply to Eric Sandeen
Quoted 3 lines · Eric Sandeen

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

Hey Eric,

One question about this patch. You are currently using a hashed array of size 37 for the waitqueue; what about using a similarly sized hashed array for the aio_mutex? We only take it for unaligned mutexes, and I'm trying to work on reducing the size of ext4 inode, since it gets rather large in the inode cache....

- Ted

maintainer
#9 lore raw
Quoted 10 lines · Ted Ts'o

Hey Eric,

One question about this patch. You are currently using a hashed array of size 37 for the waitqueue; what about using a similarly sized hashed array for the aio_mutex? We only take it for unaligned mutexes, and I'm trying to work on reducing the size of ext4 inode, since it gets rather large in the inode cache....

- Ted

Like this.... I also changed to_ioend_wq() and ioend_wq[] to be ext4_ioend_wq() and ext4__ioend_wq[], since they are now global variables.

commit 7520bb0f2980ef79d17dcbec2783760b37490ffc

Author: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Feb 7 10:57:28 2011 -0500

ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new" block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here. The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO. This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the work queue to do conversions - which must also take the i_mutex. So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower (14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned) but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here; unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.

fs/ext4/ext4.h +8 -0
index 0c8d97b..f8857d4 100644
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 	atomic_t i_ioend_count;	/* Number of outstanding io_end structs */
 	/* current io_end structure for async DIO write*/
 	ext4_io_end_t *cur_aio_dio;
+	atomic_t i_aiodio_unwritten; /* Nr. of inflight conversions pending */
 
 	spinlock_t i_block_reservation_lock;
 
@@ -2119,6 +2120,13 @@ static inline void set_bitmap_uptodate(struct buffer_head *bh)
 
 #define in_range(b, first, len)	((b) >= (first) && (b) <= (first) + (len) - 1)
 
+/* For ioend & aio unwritten conversion wait queues */
+#define EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ		37
+#define ext4_ioend_wq(v)   (&ext4__ioend_wq[((unsigned)v) % EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ])
+#define ext4_aio_mutex(v)  (&ext4__aio_mutex[((unsigned)v) % EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ])
+extern wait_queue_head_t ext4__ioend_wq[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+extern struct mutex ext4__aio_mutex[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif	/* _EXT4_H */
fs/ext4/extents.c +6 -4
index 63a7581..ccce8a7 100644
@@ -3174,9 +3174,10 @@ ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		 * that this IO needs to convertion to written when IO is
 		 * completed
 		 */
-		if (io)
+		if (io && !(io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
 			io->flag = EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
-		else
+			atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+		} else
 			ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
 		if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(inode))
 			map->m_flags |= EXT4_MAP_UNINIT;
@@ -3463,9 +3464,10 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		 * that we need to perform convertion when IO is done.
 		 */
 		if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO)) {
-			if (io)
+			if (io && !(io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
 				io->flag = EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
-			else
+				atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+			} else
 				ext4_set_inode_state(inode,
 						     EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
 		}
fs/ext4/file.c +59 -1

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fs/ext4/page-io.c +13 -12
index 4e9b0a2..955cc30 100644
@@ -32,14 +32,8 @@
 
 static struct kmem_cache *io_page_cachep, *io_end_cachep;
 
-#define WQ_HASH_SZ		37
-#define to_ioend_wq(v)	(&ioend_wq[((unsigned long)v) % WQ_HASH_SZ])
-static wait_queue_head_t ioend_wq[WQ_HASH_SZ];
-
 int __init ext4_init_pageio(void)
 {
-	int i;
-
 	io_page_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(ext4_io_page, SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT);
 	if (io_page_cachep == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -48,9 +42,6 @@ int __init ext4_init_pageio(void)
 		kmem_cache_destroy(io_page_cachep);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	for (i = 0; i < WQ_HASH_SZ; i++)
-		init_waitqueue_head(&ioend_wq[i]);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -62,7 +53,7 @@ void ext4_exit_pageio(void)
 
 void ext4_ioend_wait(struct inode *inode)
 {
-	wait_queue_head_t *wq = to_ioend_wq(inode);
+	wait_queue_head_t *wq = ext4_ioend_wq(inode);
 
 	wait_event(*wq, (atomic_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_ioend_count) == 0));
 }
@@ -87,7 +78,7 @@ void ext4_free_io_end(ext4_io_end_t *io)
 	for (i = 0; i < io->num_io_pages; i++)
 		put_io_page(io->pages[i]);
 	io->num_io_pages = 0;
-	wq = to_ioend_wq(io->inode);
+	wq = ext4_ioend_wq(io->inode);
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&EXT4_I(io->inode)->i_ioend_count) &&
 	    waitqueue_active(wq))
 		wake_up_all(wq);
@@ -102,6 +93,7 @@ int ext4_end_io_nolock(ext4_io_end_t *io)
 	struct inode *inode = io->inode;
 	loff_t offset = io->offset;
 	ssize_t size = io->size;
+	wait_queue_head_t *wq;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	ext4_debug("ext4_end_io_nolock: io 0x%p from inode %lu,list->next 0x%p,"
@@ -126,7 +118,16 @@ int ext4_end_io_nolock(ext4_io_end_t *io)
 	if (io->iocb)
 		aio_complete(io->iocb, io->result, 0);
 	/* clear the DIO AIO unwritten flag */
-	io->flag &= ~EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+	if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN) {
+		io->flag &= ~EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+		/* Wake up anyone waiting on unwritten extent conversion */
+		wq = ext4_ioend_wq(io->inode);
+		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten) &&
+		    waitqueue_active(wq)) {
+			wake_up_all(wq);
+		}
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
fs/ext4/super.c +12 -1
index 86b0548..07e790b 100644
@@ -833,6 +833,7 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 	ei->i_sync_tid = 0;
 	ei->i_datasync_tid = 0;
 	atomic_set(&ei->i_ioend_count, 0);
+	atomic_set(&ei->i_aiodio_unwritten, 0);
 
 	return &ei->vfs_inode;
 }
@@ -4800,11 +4801,21 @@ static void ext4_exit_feat_adverts(void)
 	kfree(ext4_feat);
 }
 
+/* Shared across all ext4 file systems */
+wait_queue_head_t ext4__ioend_wq[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+struct mutex ext4__aio_mutex[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+
 static int __init ext4_init_fs(void)
 {
-	int err;
+	int i, err;
 
 	ext4_check_flag_values();
+
+	for (i=0; i < EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ; i++) {
+		mutex_init(&ext4__aio_mutex[i]);
+		init_waitqueue_head(&ext4__ioend_wq[i]);
+	}
+
 	err = ext4_init_pageio();
 	if (err)
 		return err;
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Quoted 10 lines · Ted Ts'o
Quoted 9 lines · Ted Ts'o

Hey Eric,

One question about this patch. You are currently using a hashed array of size 37 for the waitqueue; what about using a similarly sized hashed array for the aio_mutex? We only take it for unaligned mutexes, and I'm trying to work on reducing the size of ext4 inode, since it gets rather large in the inode cache....

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Quoted 1 line

- Ted

Like this.... I also changed to_ioend_wq() and ioend_wq[] to be ext4_ioend_wq() and ext4__ioend_wq[], since they are now global variables.

Looks fine to me, thanks, feel free to put an akpm-style comment in the commit about what you fixed up.

-Eric

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Quoted 18 lines · Eric Sandeen
Quoted 10 lines · Ted Ts'o
Quoted 9 lines · Ted Ts'o

Hey Eric,

One question about this patch. You are currently using a hashed array of size 37 for the waitqueue; what about using a similarly sized hashed array for the aio_mutex? We only take it for unaligned mutexes, and I'm trying to work on reducing the size of ext4 inode, since it gets rather large in the inode cache....

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Quoted 1 line

- Ted

Like this.... I also changed to_ioend_wq() and ioend_wq[] to be ext4_ioend_wq() and ext4__ioend_wq[], since they are now global variables.

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Looks fine to me, thanks, feel free to put an akpm-style comment in the commit about what you fixed up.

-Eric

Ted, Eric,

If it matters, you could add reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <[email protected]> from me. The modified version looks fine with me.

Mingming

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#12 lore raw

Re: backport "ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO" to 2.6.32

In reply to Ted Ts'o

Hello Ted, hello Eric,

Quoted 9 lines · On Monday February 7th 2011 16:59:36 Ted Ts'o wrote:

commit 7520bb0f2980ef79d17dcbec2783760b37490ffc

Author: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Feb 7 10:57:28 2011 -0500

ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

I hope you remember that bug, because I encountered this data corruption bug on Debians 2.6.32(.51) kernel as well.

On the other hand RedHat seems to have back-ported that fix to RHEL5 (2.6.18) and probably RHEL6 (2.6.32) as well, but I don't have a subscription, so I can't verify that:
<http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/centos/updates/5.7/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5.x86_64.html>
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689830>

The Xen-people also encountered it and asked for someone to backport it:
<http://osdir.com/ml/xen-development/2011-07/msg00474.html>

I tried to backport it from 2.6.38~rc5 to 2.6.32.51 and thus far it seems to fix the bug. But several other things were re-named and re-organized between those versions, so it was not slreight forward.

Since I'm no ext4 expert, I'd like to ask you to have a look at this backport. Is it sound or are there some tests I can throw at it to get it tested more thoroughly?
Does is classify for <mailto:[email protected]>?

Thanks in advance
Philipp Hahn

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commit e9e3bcecf44c04b9e6b505fd8e2eb9cea58fb94d

Author: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Feb 12 08:17:34 2011 -0500

ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

The root cause is that while ext4 preallocates space in the hole, mappings of that space still look "new" and dio_zero_block() will zero out the unwritten portions. When more than one AIO thread is going, they both find this "new" block and race to zero out their portion; this is uncoordinated and causes data corruption.

Dave Chinner fixed this for xfs by simply serializing all unaligned asynchronous direct IO. I've done the same here. The difference is that we only wait on conversions, not all IO. This is a very big hammer, and I'm not very pleased with stuffing this into ext4_file_write(). But since ext4 is DIO_LOCKING, we need to serialize it at this high level.

I tried to move this into ext4_ext_direct_IO, but by then we have the i_mutex already, and we will wait on the work queue to do conversions - which must also take the i_mutex. So that won't work.

This was originally exposed by qemu-kvm installing to a raw disk image with a normal sector-63 alignment. I've tested a backport of this patch with qemu, and it does avoid the corruption. It is also quite a lot slower (14 min for package installs, vs. 8 min for well-aligned) but I'll take slow correctness over fast corruption any day.

Mingming suggested that we can track outstanding conversions, and wait on those so that non-sparse files won't be affected, and I've implemented that here; unaligned AIO to nonsparse files won't take a perf hit.

[[email protected]: Keep the mutex as a hashed array instead
of bloating the ext4 inode]

[[email protected]: Fix up namespace issues so that global
variables are protected with an "ext4_" prefix.]

fs/ext4/ext4.h +11 -0
index 67c46ed..10edb67 100644
@@ -781,6 +781,8 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
 	/* on-disk additional length */
 	__u16 i_extra_isize;
 
+	atomic_t i_aiodio_unwritten; /* Nr. of inflight conversions pending */
+
 	spinlock_t i_block_reservation_lock;
 #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
 	/* quota space reservation, managed internally by quota code */
@@ -1889,6 +1891,15 @@ static inline void set_bitmap_uptodate(struct buffer_head *bh)
 
 #define in_range(b, first, len)	((b) >= (first) && (b) <= (first) + (len) - 1)
 
+/* For ioend & aio unwritten conversion wait queues */
+#define EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ		37
+#define ext4_ioend_wq(v)   (&ext4__ioend_wq[((unsigned long)(v)) %\
+					    EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ])
+#define ext4_aio_mutex(v)  (&ext4__aio_mutex[((unsigned long)(v)) %\
+					     EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ])
+extern wait_queue_head_t ext4__ioend_wq[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+extern struct mutex ext4__aio_mutex[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif	/* _EXT4_H */
fs/ext4/extents.c +6 -4
index ecbe20d..f4830e6 100644
@@ -3118,9 +3118,10 @@ ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		 * that this IO needs to convertion to written when IO is
 		 * completed
 		 */
-		if (io)
+		if (io && !(io->flag & DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN)) {
 			io->flag = DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN;
-		else
+			atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+		} else
 			ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -3404,9 +3405,10 @@ int ext4_ext_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		 * that we need to perform convertion when IO is done.
 		 */
 		if (flags == EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DIO_CREATE_EXT) {
-			if (io)
+			if (io && !(io->flag & DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN)) {
 				io->flag = DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN;
-			else
+				atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+			} else
 				ext4_set_inode_state(inode,
 						     EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN);
 		}
fs/ext4/file.c +59 -1

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fs/ext4/super.c +12 -1
index f27e045..2cb8748 100644
@@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ static struct inode *ext4_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 	ei->cur_aio_dio = NULL;
 	ei->i_sync_tid = 0;
 	ei->i_datasync_tid = 0;
+	atomic_set(&ei->i_aiodio_unwritten, 0);
 
 	return &ei->vfs_inode;
 }
@@ -4002,11 +4003,21 @@ static struct file_system_type ext4_fs_type = {
 	.fs_flags	= FS_REQUIRES_DEV,
 };
 
+/* Shared across all ext4 file systems */
+wait_queue_head_t ext4__ioend_wq[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+struct mutex ext4__aio_mutex[EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ];
+
 static int __init init_ext4_fs(void)
 {
-	int err;
+	int i, err;
 
 	ext4_check_flag_values();
+
+	for (i = 0; i < EXT4_WQ_HASH_SZ; i++) {
+		mutex_init(&ext4__aio_mutex[i]);
+		init_waitqueue_head(&ext4__ioend_wq[i]);
+	}
+
 	err = init_ext4_system_zone();
 	if (err)
 		return err;
fs/ext4/inode.c +13 -3
@@ -3609,6 +3609,7 @@
 	struct inode *inode = io->inode;
 	loff_t offset = io->offset;
 	ssize_t size = io->size;
+	wait_queue_head_t *wq;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	ext4_debug("end_aio_dio_onlock: io 0x%p from inode %lu,list->next 0x%p,"
@@ -3619,7 +3620,7 @@
 	if (list_empty(&io->list))
 		return ret;
 
-	if (io->flag != DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN)
+	if (!(io->flag & DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN))
 		return ret;
 
 	if (offset + size <= i_size_read(inode))
@@ -3633,7 +3634,16 @@
 	}
 
 	/* clear the DIO AIO unwritten flag */
-	io->flag = 0;
+	if (io->flag & DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN) {
+		io->flag &= ~DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN;
+		/* Wake up anyone waiting on unwritten extent conversion */
+		wq = ext4_ioend_wq(io->inode);
+		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten) &&
+		    waitqueue_active(wq)) {
+			wake_up_all(wq);
+		}
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 /*
@@ -3747,7 +3757,7 @@
 		  size);
 
 	/* if not aio dio with unwritten extents, just free io and return */
-	if (io_end->flag != DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN){
+	if (!(io_end->flag & DIO_AIO_UNWRITTEN)) {
 		ext4_free_io_end(io_end);
 		iocb->private = NULL;
 		return;

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#13 lore raw

Re: backport "ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO" to 2.6.32

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Quoted 4 lines · Philipp Hahn

Hello Ted, hello Eric,

Quoted 1 line · On Monday February 7th 2011 16:59:36 Ted Ts'o wrote:

commit 7520bb0f2980ef79d17dcbec2783760b37490ffc

upstream is actually e9e3bcecf44c04b9e6b505fd8e2eb9cea58fb94d but you probably knew that.

Quoted 11 lines
Quoted 8 lines
Author: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Feb 7 10:57:28 2011 -0500

ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

ext4 has a data corruption case when doing non-block-aligned asynchronous direct IO into a sparse file, as demonstrated by xfstest 240.

I hope you remember that bug, because I encountered this data corruption bug on Debians 2.6.32(.51) kernel as well.

I remember it well ;)

I also backported it to RHEL6, but that "2.6.32" kernel also had a few of ext4 updates.

Still, grabbing a centos6 kernel src.rpm and looking might help you.

FWIW I also backported f46c483357c2d87606bbefb511321e3efd4baae0 and f2d28a2ebcb525a6ec7e2152106ddb385ef52b73 as helpers.

Quoted 5 lines

On the other hand RedHat seems to have back-ported that fix to RHEL5 (2.6.18) and probably RHEL6 (2.6.32) as well, but I don't have a subscription, so I can't verify that:
<http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/centos/updates/5.7/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5.x86_64.html>
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689830>

615309 is the RHEL6 bug. Sadly it's marked private.

Quoted 10 lines

The Xen-people also encountered it and asked for someone to backport it:
<http://osdir.com/ml/xen-development/2011-07/msg00474.html>

I tried to backport it from 2.6.38~rc5 to 2.6.32.51 and thus far it seems to fix the bug. But several other things were re-named and re-organized between those versions, so it was not slreight forward.

Since I'm no ext4 expert, I'd like to ask you to have a look at this backport. Is it sound or are there some tests I can throw at it to get it tested more thoroughly?

xfstests test #240 tests it specifically:

# FS QA Test No. 240
#
# Test that non-block-aligned aio+dio into holes does not leave # zero'd out portions of the file
#
# QEMU IO to a file-backed device with misaligned partitions

# can send this sort of IO
#
# This test need only be run in the case where the logical block size
# of the device can be smaller than the file system block size.

and running all the xfstests over your result would probably be good.

FWIW, there was a related xfs fix as well:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669272

that one's not marked private <eyeroll>

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Does is classify for <mailto:[email protected]>?

probably so.

To be honest I am really pressed for time right now, and this was somewhat tricky code. I won't be able to review it right now, anyway, but can try to get to it at some point if my schedule lightens up... :(

- -Eric

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Thanks in advance
Philipp Hahn

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