Il giorno 24 mag 2021, alle ore 19:13, Holger Hoffstätte [off-list ref] ha scritto:

On 2021-05-24 18:57, Paolo Valente wrote:

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Il giorno 20 mag 2021, alle ore 09:15, Holger Hoffstätte [off-list ref] ha scritto:

On 2021-05-18 12:43, Luca Mariotti wrote:

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When attempting to schedule a merge of a given bfq_queue with the currently
in-service bfq_queue or with a cooperating bfq_queue among the scheduled
bfq_queues, delayed stable merge is checked for rotational or non-queueing
devs. For this stable merge to be performed, some conditions must be met.
If the current bfq_queue underwent some split from some merged bfq_queue,
one of these conditions is that two hundred milliseconds must elapse from
split, otherwise this condition is always met.
Unfortunately, by mistake, time_is_after_jiffies() was written instead of
time_is_before_jiffies() for this check, verifying that less than two
hundred milliseconds have elapsed instead of verifying that at least two
hundred milliseconds have elapsed.
Fix this issue by replacing time_is_after_jiffies() with
time_is_before_jiffies().
Signed-off-by: Luca Mariotti <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Pietro Pedroni <redacted>
---
 block/bfq-iosched.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index acd1f881273e..2adb1e69c9d2 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c

@@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@ bfq_setup_cooperator(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
 	if (unlikely(!bfqd->nonrot_with_queueing)) {
 		if (bic->stable_merge_bfqq &&
 		    !bfq_bfqq_just_created(bfqq) &&
-		    time_is_after_jiffies(bfqq->split_time +
+		    time_is_before_jiffies(bfqq->split_time +
 					  msecs_to_jiffies(200))) {
 			struct bfq_queue *stable_merge_bfqq =
 				bic->stable_merge_bfqq;

Not sure why but with this patch I quickly got a division-by-zero in BFQ and
complete system halt. Unfortunately I couldn't capture the exact stack trace,
but it read something like bfq_calc_weight() or something ike that.
I looked through the code and found bfq_delta(), so maybe weight got
reduced to 0?

Hi Holger,
is this (easily) reproducible for you?  If so, I'd like to propose you
a candidate fix.

Yes, it's easily reproducible (should be reproducible on 5.13-rc as well).
Simple read/write I/O on a cold FS (rotational disk obviously) will crash
pretty much immediately; without it everything works fine, likely because the
bug (in the recent queue merging patches?) is never triggered due to the
accidentally-wrong time calculation.

Exactly!

Unfortunately, no crash happens on my systems.  Or, actually, crashes
stopped after the attached fix.

Will gladly test your patch! :)

Here it is!

I'll make a proper commit after your early tests.

Crossing my fingers,
Paolo