qemu/async.c
Paolo Bonzini eabc977973 AioContext: fix broken ctx->dispatching optimization
This patch rewrites the ctx->dispatching optimization, which was the cause
of some mysterious hangs that could be reproduced on aarch64 KVM only.
The hangs were indirectly caused by aio_poll() and in particular by
flash memory updates's call to blk_write(), which invokes aio_poll().
Fun stuff: they had an extremely short race window, so much that
adding all kind of tracing to either the kernel or QEMU made it
go away (a single printf made it half as reproducible).

On the plus side, the failure mode (a hang until the next keypress)
made it very easy to examine the state of the process with a debugger.
And there was a very nice reproducer from Laszlo, which failed pretty
often (more than half of the time) on any version of QEMU with a non-debug
kernel; it also failed fast, while still in the firmware.  So, it could
have been worse.

For some unknown reason they happened only with virtio-scsi, but
that's not important.  It's more interesting that they disappeared with
io=native, making thread-pool.c a likely suspect for where the bug arose.
thread-pool.c is also one of the few places which use bottom halves
across threads, by the way.

I hope that no other similar bugs exist, but just in case :) I am
going to describe how the successful debugging went...  Since the
likely culprit was the ctx->dispatching optimization, which mostly
affects bottom halves, the first observation was that there are two
qemu_bh_schedule() invocations in the thread pool: the one in the aio
worker and the one in thread_pool_completion_bh.  The latter always
causes the optimization to trigger, the former may or may not.  In
order to restrict the possibilities, I introduced new functions
qemu_bh_schedule_slow() and qemu_bh_schedule_fast():

     /* qemu_bh_schedule_slow: */
     ctx = bh->ctx;
     bh->idle = 0;
     if (atomic_xchg(&bh->scheduled, 1) == 0) {
         event_notifier_set(&ctx->notifier);
     }

     /* qemu_bh_schedule_fast: */
     ctx = bh->ctx;
     bh->idle = 0;
     assert(ctx->dispatching);
     atomic_xchg(&bh->scheduled, 1);

Notice how the atomic_xchg is still in qemu_bh_schedule_slow().  This
was already debated a few months ago, so I assumed it to be correct.
In retrospect this was a very good idea, as you'll see later.

Changing thread_pool_completion_bh() to qemu_bh_schedule_fast() didn't
trigger the assertion (as expected).  Changing the worker's invocation
to qemu_bh_schedule_slow() didn't hide the bug (another assumption
which luckily held).  This already limited heavily the amount of
interaction between the threads, hinting that the problematic events
must have triggered around thread_pool_completion_bh().

As mentioned early, invoking a debugger to examine the state of a
hung process was pretty easy; the iothread was always waiting on a
poll(..., -1) system call.  Infinite timeouts are much rarer on x86,
and this could be the reason why the bug was never observed there.
With the buggy sequence more or less resolved to an interaction between
thread_pool_completion_bh() and poll(..., -1), my "tracing" strategy was
to just add a few qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME) calls, hoping
that the ordering of aio_ctx_prepare(), aio_ctx_dispatch, poll() and
qemu_bh_schedule_fast() would provide some hint.  The output was:

    (gdb) p last_prepare
    $3 = 103885451
    (gdb) p last_dispatch
    $4 = 103876492
    (gdb) p last_poll
    $5 = 115909333
    (gdb) p last_schedule
    $6 = 115925212

Notice how the last call to qemu_poll_ns() came after aio_ctx_dispatch().
This makes little sense unless there is an aio_poll() call involved,
and indeed with a slightly different instrumentation you can see that
there is one:

    (gdb) p last_prepare
    $3 = 107569679
    (gdb) p last_dispatch
    $4 = 107561600
    (gdb) p last_aio_poll
    $5 = 110671400
    (gdb) p last_schedule
    $6 = 110698917

So the scenario becomes clearer:

   iothread                   VCPU thread
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   aio_ctx_prepare
   aio_ctx_check
   qemu_poll_ns(timeout=-1)
                              aio_poll
                                aio_dispatch
                                  thread_pool_completion_bh
                                    qemu_bh_schedule()

At this point bh->scheduled = 1 and the iothread has not been woken up.
The solution must be close, but this alone should not be a problem,
because the bottom half is only rescheduled to account for rare situations
(see commit 3c80ca1, thread-pool: avoid deadlock in nested aio_poll()
calls, 2014-07-15).

Introducing a third thread---a thread pool worker thread, which
also does qemu_bh_schedule()---does bring out the problematic case.
The third thread must be awakened *after* the callback is complete and
thread_pool_completion_bh has redone the whole loop, explaining the
short race window.  And then this is what happens:

                                                      thread pool worker
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                      <I/O completes>
                                                      qemu_bh_schedule()

Tada, bh->scheduled is already 1, so qemu_bh_schedule() does nothing
and the iothread is never woken up.  This is where the bh->scheduled
optimization comes into play---it is correct, but removing it would
have masked the bug.

So, what is the bug?

Well, the question asked by the ctx->dispatching optimization ("is any
active aio_poll dispatching?") was wrong.  The right question to ask
instead is "is any active aio_poll *not* dispatching", i.e. in the prepare
or poll phases?  In that case, the aio_poll is sleeping or might go to
sleep anytime soon, and the EventNotifier must be invoked to wake
it up.

In any other case (including if there is *no* active aio_poll at all!)
we can just wait for the next prepare phase to pick up the event (e.g. a
bottom half); the prepare phase will avoid the blocking and service the
bottom half.

Expressing the invariant with a logic formula, the broken one looked like:

   !(exists(thread): in_dispatching(thread)) => !optimize

or equivalently:

   !(exists(thread):
          in_aio_poll(thread) && in_dispatching(thread)) => !optimize

In the correct one, the negation is in a slightly different place:

   (exists(thread):
         in_aio_poll(thread) && !in_dispatching(thread)) => !optimize

or equivalently:

   (exists(thread): in_prepare_or_poll(thread)) => !optimize

Even if the difference boils down to moving an exclamation mark :)
the implementation is quite different.  However, I think the new
one is simpler to understand.

In the old implementation, the "exists" was implemented with a boolean
value.  This didn't really support well the case of multiple concurrent
event loops, but I thought that this was okay: aio_poll holds the
AioContext lock so there cannot be concurrent aio_poll invocations, and
I was just considering nested event loops.  However, aio_poll _could_
indeed be concurrent with the GSource.  This is why I came up with the
wrong invariant.

In the new implementation, "exists" is computed simply by counting how many
threads are in the prepare or poll phases.  There are some interesting
points to consider, but the gist of the idea remains:

1) AioContext can be used through GSource as well; as mentioned in the
patch, bit 0 of the counter is reserved for the GSource.

2) the counter need not be updated for a non-blocking aio_poll, because
it won't sleep forever anyway.  This is just a matter of checking
the "blocking" variable.  This requires some changes to the win32
implementation, but is otherwise not too complicated.

3) as mentioned above, the new implementation will not call aio_notify
when there is *no* active aio_poll at all.  The tests have to be
adjusted for this change.  The calls to aio_notify in async.c are fine;
they only want to kick aio_poll out of a blocking wait, but need not
do anything if aio_poll is not running.

4) nested aio_poll: these just work with the new implementation; when
a nested event loop is invoked, the outer event loop is never in the
prepare or poll phases.  The outer event loop thus has already decremented
the counter.

Reported-by: Richard W. M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1437487673-23740-5-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-07-22 12:41:40 +01:00

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#include "qemu-common.h"
#include "block/aio.h"
#include "block/thread-pool.h"
#include "qemu/main-loop.h"
#include "qemu/atomic.h"
/***********************************************************/
/* bottom halves (can be seen as timers which expire ASAP) */
struct QEMUBH {
AioContext *ctx;
QEMUBHFunc *cb;
void *opaque;
QEMUBH *next;
bool scheduled;
bool idle;
bool deleted;
};
QEMUBH *aio_bh_new(AioContext *ctx, QEMUBHFunc *cb, void *opaque)
{
QEMUBH *bh;
bh = g_new(QEMUBH, 1);
*bh = (QEMUBH){
.ctx = ctx,
.cb = cb,
.opaque = opaque,
};
qemu_mutex_lock(&ctx->bh_lock);
bh->next = ctx->first_bh;
/* Make sure that the members are ready before putting bh into list */
smp_wmb();
ctx->first_bh = bh;
qemu_mutex_unlock(&ctx->bh_lock);
return bh;
}
/* Multiple occurrences of aio_bh_poll cannot be called concurrently */
int aio_bh_poll(AioContext *ctx)
{
QEMUBH *bh, **bhp, *next;
int ret;
ctx->walking_bh++;
ret = 0;
for (bh = ctx->first_bh; bh; bh = next) {
/* Make sure that fetching bh happens before accessing its members */
smp_read_barrier_depends();
next = bh->next;
/* The atomic_xchg is paired with the one in qemu_bh_schedule. The
* implicit memory barrier ensures that the callback sees all writes
* done by the scheduling thread. It also ensures that the scheduling
* thread sees the zero before bh->cb has run, and thus will call
* aio_notify again if necessary.
*/
if (!bh->deleted && atomic_xchg(&bh->scheduled, 0)) {
if (!bh->idle)
ret = 1;
bh->idle = 0;
bh->cb(bh->opaque);
}
}
ctx->walking_bh--;
/* remove deleted bhs */
if (!ctx->walking_bh) {
qemu_mutex_lock(&ctx->bh_lock);
bhp = &ctx->first_bh;
while (*bhp) {
bh = *bhp;
if (bh->deleted) {
*bhp = bh->next;
g_free(bh);
} else {
bhp = &bh->next;
}
}
qemu_mutex_unlock(&ctx->bh_lock);
}
return ret;
}
void qemu_bh_schedule_idle(QEMUBH *bh)
{
bh->idle = 1;
/* Make sure that idle & any writes needed by the callback are done
* before the locations are read in the aio_bh_poll.
*/
atomic_mb_set(&bh->scheduled, 1);
}
void qemu_bh_schedule(QEMUBH *bh)
{
AioContext *ctx;
ctx = bh->ctx;
bh->idle = 0;
/* The memory barrier implicit in atomic_xchg makes sure that:
* 1. idle & any writes needed by the callback are done before the
* locations are read in the aio_bh_poll.
* 2. ctx is loaded before scheduled is set and the callback has a chance
* to execute.
*/
if (atomic_xchg(&bh->scheduled, 1) == 0) {
aio_notify(ctx);
}
}
/* This func is async.
*/
void qemu_bh_cancel(QEMUBH *bh)
{
bh->scheduled = 0;
}
/* This func is async.The bottom half will do the delete action at the finial
* end.
*/
void qemu_bh_delete(QEMUBH *bh)
{
bh->scheduled = 0;
bh->deleted = 1;
}
int64_t
aio_compute_timeout(AioContext *ctx)
{
int64_t deadline;
int timeout = -1;
QEMUBH *bh;
for (bh = ctx->first_bh; bh; bh = bh->next) {
if (!bh->deleted && bh->scheduled) {
if (bh->idle) {
/* idle bottom halves will be polled at least
* every 10ms */
timeout = 10000000;
} else {
/* non-idle bottom halves will be executed
* immediately */
return 0;
}
}
}
deadline = timerlistgroup_deadline_ns(&ctx->tlg);
if (deadline == 0) {
return 0;
} else {
return qemu_soonest_timeout(timeout, deadline);
}
}
static gboolean
aio_ctx_prepare(GSource *source, gint *timeout)
{
AioContext *ctx = (AioContext *) source;
atomic_or(&ctx->notify_me, 1);
/* We assume there is no timeout already supplied */
*timeout = qemu_timeout_ns_to_ms(aio_compute_timeout(ctx));
if (aio_prepare(ctx)) {
*timeout = 0;
}
return *timeout == 0;
}
static gboolean
aio_ctx_check(GSource *source)
{
AioContext *ctx = (AioContext *) source;
QEMUBH *bh;
atomic_and(&ctx->notify_me, ~1);
for (bh = ctx->first_bh; bh; bh = bh->next) {
if (!bh->deleted && bh->scheduled) {
return true;
}
}
return aio_pending(ctx) || (timerlistgroup_deadline_ns(&ctx->tlg) == 0);
}
static gboolean
aio_ctx_dispatch(GSource *source,
GSourceFunc callback,
gpointer user_data)
{
AioContext *ctx = (AioContext *) source;
assert(callback == NULL);
aio_dispatch(ctx);
return true;
}
static void
aio_ctx_finalize(GSource *source)
{
AioContext *ctx = (AioContext *) source;
thread_pool_free(ctx->thread_pool);
aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &ctx->notifier, NULL);
event_notifier_cleanup(&ctx->notifier);
rfifolock_destroy(&ctx->lock);
qemu_mutex_destroy(&ctx->bh_lock);
timerlistgroup_deinit(&ctx->tlg);
}
static GSourceFuncs aio_source_funcs = {
aio_ctx_prepare,
aio_ctx_check,
aio_ctx_dispatch,
aio_ctx_finalize
};
GSource *aio_get_g_source(AioContext *ctx)
{
g_source_ref(&ctx->source);
return &ctx->source;
}
ThreadPool *aio_get_thread_pool(AioContext *ctx)
{
if (!ctx->thread_pool) {
ctx->thread_pool = thread_pool_new(ctx);
}
return ctx->thread_pool;
}
void aio_notify(AioContext *ctx)
{
/* Write e.g. bh->scheduled before reading ctx->notify_me. Pairs
* with atomic_or in aio_ctx_prepare or atomic_add in aio_poll.
*/
smp_mb();
if (ctx->notify_me) {
event_notifier_set(&ctx->notifier);
}
}
static void aio_timerlist_notify(void *opaque)
{
aio_notify(opaque);
}
static void aio_rfifolock_cb(void *opaque)
{
/* Kick owner thread in case they are blocked in aio_poll() */
aio_notify(opaque);
}
AioContext *aio_context_new(Error **errp)
{
int ret;
AioContext *ctx;
ctx = (AioContext *) g_source_new(&aio_source_funcs, sizeof(AioContext));
ret = event_notifier_init(&ctx->notifier, false);
if (ret < 0) {
g_source_destroy(&ctx->source);
error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Failed to initialize event notifier");
return NULL;
}
g_source_set_can_recurse(&ctx->source, true);
aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &ctx->notifier,
(EventNotifierHandler *)
event_notifier_test_and_clear);
ctx->thread_pool = NULL;
qemu_mutex_init(&ctx->bh_lock);
rfifolock_init(&ctx->lock, aio_rfifolock_cb, ctx);
timerlistgroup_init(&ctx->tlg, aio_timerlist_notify, ctx);
return ctx;
}
void aio_context_ref(AioContext *ctx)
{
g_source_ref(&ctx->source);
}
void aio_context_unref(AioContext *ctx)
{
g_source_unref(&ctx->source);
}
void aio_context_acquire(AioContext *ctx)
{
rfifolock_lock(&ctx->lock);
}
void aio_context_release(AioContext *ctx)
{
rfifolock_unlock(&ctx->lock);
}