On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 9:35 AM HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Lianbo,
>
> On 2022/06/08 22:27, lijiang wrote:
> > Hi, Kazu
> > Thank you for the fix.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 4:42 PM HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     There have been some reports that the "dev -d|-D" options displayed
> >     incorrect I/O stats due to racy blk_mq_ctx.rq_completed value.
> >     To fix it, make the options use sbitmap to count I/O stats on RHEL8
> >     and adjust to its blk_mq_tags structure.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <[email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]>>
> >     ---
> >     The patch tested ok with upstream 4.0 to 5.18 kernels and several
> >     RHEL7 and RHEL8 ones.
> >
> >        dev.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
> >        1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> >     diff --git a/dev.c b/dev.c
> >     index 0172c83ffaea..733e3a8a40cd 100644
> >     --- a/dev.c
> >     +++ b/dev.c
> >     @@ -4339,6 +4339,10 @@ static void bt_for_each(ulong q, ulong tags,
> ulong sbq, uint reserved, uint nr_r
> >        static void queue_for_each_hw_ctx(ulong q, ulong *hctx, uint cnt,
> struct diskio *dio)
> >        {
> >              uint i;
> >     +       int bitmap_tags_is_ptr = 0;
> >     +
> >     +       if (MEMBER_TYPE("blk_mq_tags", "bitmap_tags") ==
> TYPE_CODE_PTR)
> >     +               bitmap_tags_is_ptr = 1;
> >
> >
> > The above change is related to the kernel(v5.10-rc1) commit:
> > 222a5ae03cdd ("blk-mq: Use pointers for blk_mq_tags bitmap tags")
> >
> > Could you please add it to the patch log?
>
> Sure, I'll add them.  Thank you for the information.
> I did not search for the upstream patches.
>
> Thanks.

>
> > And later, kernel(v5.16-rc1) stops using pointers again:
> > ae0f1a732f4a ("blk-mq: Stop using pointers for blk_mq_tags bitmap tags")
> >
> >              for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
> >                      ulong addr = 0, tags = 0;
> >     @@ -4357,9 +4361,17 @@ static void queue_for_each_hw_ctx(ulong q,
> ulong *hctx, uint cnt, struct diskio
> >
> >                      if (nr_reserved_tags) {
> >                              addr = tags +
> OFFSET(blk_mq_tags_breserved_tags);
> >     +                       if (bitmap_tags_is_ptr &&
> >     +                           !readmem(addr, KVADDR, &addr,
> sizeof(ulong),
> >     +                                       "blk_mq_tags.bitmap_tags",
> RETURN_ON_ERROR))
> >     +                               break;
> >                              bt_for_each(q, tags, addr, 1,
> nr_reserved_tags, dio);
> >                      }
> >                      addr = tags + OFFSET(blk_mq_tags_bitmap_tags);
> >     +               if (bitmap_tags_is_ptr &&
> >     +                   !readmem(addr, KVADDR, &addr, sizeof(ulong),
> >     +                               "blk_mq_tags.bitmap_tags",
> RETURN_ON_ERROR))
> >     +                       break;
> >                      bt_for_each(q, tags, addr, 0, nr_reserved_tags,
> dio);
> >              }
> >        }
> >     @@ -4423,8 +4435,13 @@ get_mq_diskio(unsigned long q, unsigned long
> *mq_count)
> >              unsigned long mctx_addr;
> >              struct diskio tmp = {0};
> >
> >     -       if (INVALID_MEMBER(blk_mq_ctx_rq_dispatched) ||
> >     -           INVALID_MEMBER(blk_mq_ctx_rq_completed)) {
> >     +       /*
> >     +        * Currently it does not support earlier sbitmap and blk-mq
> >     +        * implementation e.g. RHEL7, so filter them out.
> >     +        */
> >     +       if (VALID_STRUCT(sbitmap) &&
> >     +           VALID_MEMBER(sbitmap_word_cleared) &&
> >     +           VALID_MEMBER(request_state)) {
> >
> >
> > The struct sbitmap was introduced in the kernel v4.9-rc1:
> > 88459642cba4 ("blk-mq: abstract tag allocation out into sbitmap library")
> >
> > The member of cleared in the struct sbitmap_word was added in the kernel
> v5.0-rc1:
> > ea86ea2cdced ("sbitmap: ammortize cost of clearing bits")
> >
> > The member of state in struct request was added in the kernel v4.18-rc1:
> > 12f5b9314545 ("blk-mq: Remove generation seqeunce")
> >
> > It indicates that the current "dev -d" command  won't work on the
> vmcores generated with the kernel v5.0-rc1 and
> > earlier(still use the rq_dispatched and rq_completed to count the IOs on
> the old vmcores). These three symbols
> > exist in the different kernel versions and put them together, it seems
> to be confused. And it would increase the
> > maintenance difficulty in the future.>
> > To be on the safe side, I would suggest doing that in the distribution,
> because the developers often backport some
> > upstream patches into the distribution, it could be more reasonable. Any
> ideas?
>
> sorry, but I cannot see what is confusing and causes maintenance
> difficulty.
> Do you mean that we should use only one macro checking if the latest
> supported version v5.0, i.e. VALID_MEMBER(sbitmap_word_cleared) here?
>
> But as you say, distributions can backport only a part of upstream patches,
> so having several checks is safer, I think.
>
> Yes, VALID_STRUCT(sbitmap) is unnecessary and can be removed.  I added it
> for readability, it says that we cannot use the function without sbitmap.
> Is it better to remove this?
>
>
It could be good to keep only VALID_MEMBER(request_state) as you mentioned,
once
crash tool picks up the patch in the attachment.


> btw, I'm preparing a patch to support sbitmap without ea86ea2cdced,
> to extend the supported version of 'sbitmapq' command. (attached)
> We can fix it first if you think it's better.  And then, probably
> we will keep only VALID_MEMBER(request_state).
>

This looks better to me. Thank you for the explanation, Kazu.

Thanks,
> Kazu
>
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