[PATCH] lib/group_cpus.c: avoid to acquire cpu hotplug lock in group_cpus_evenly

[Ming Lei]

group_cpus_evenly() could be part of storage driver's error handler,
such as nvme driver, when may happen during CPU hotplug, in which
storage queue has to drain its pending IOs because all CPUs associated
with the queue are offline and the queue is becoming inactive. And
handling IO needs error handler to provide forward progress.

Then dead lock is caused:

1) inside CPU hotplug handler, CPU hotplug lock is held, and blk-mq's
handler is waiting for inflight IO

2) error handler is waiting for CPU hotplug lock

3) inflight IO can't be completed in blk-mq's CPU hotplug handler because
error handling can't provide forward progress.

Solve the deadlock by not holding CPU hotplug lock in group_cpus_evenly(),
in which two stage spreads are taken: 1) the 1st stage is over all present
CPUs; 2) the end stage is over all other CPUs.

Turns out the two stage spread just needs consistent 'cpu_present_mask', and
remove the CPU hotplug lock by storing it into one local cache. This way
doesn't change correctness, because all CPUs are still covered.

Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-nvme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Guangwu Zhang <guazhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 lib/group_cpus.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/group_cpus.c b/lib/group_cpus.c
index aa3f6815bb12..15006e79196f 100644
--- a/lib/group_cpus.c
+++ b/lib/group_cpus.c
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
 {
 	unsigned int curgrp = 0, nr_present = 0, nr_others = 0;
 	cpumask_var_t *node_to_cpumask;
+	cpumask_var_t local_cpu_present_mask;
 	cpumask_var_t nmsk, npresmsk;
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	struct cpumask *masks = NULL;
@@ -355,6 +356,16 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&local_cpu_present_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
+		goto fail_local_pres_mask;
+
+	/*
+	 * Make a local cache of 'cpu_present_mask', so the two stages
+	 * spread can observe consistent 'cpu_present_mask' without holding
+	 * cpu hotplug lock.
+	 */
+	cpumask_copy(local_cpu_present_mask, cpu_present_mask);
+
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&npresmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
 		goto fail_nmsk;
 
@@ -366,13 +377,11 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
 	if (!masks)
 		goto fail_node_to_cpumask;
 
-	/* Stabilize the cpumasks */
-	cpus_read_lock();
 	build_node_to_cpumask(node_to_cpumask);
 
 	/* grouping present CPUs first */
 	ret = __group_cpus_evenly(curgrp, numgrps, node_to_cpumask,
-				  cpu_present_mask, nmsk, masks);
+				  local_cpu_present_mask, nmsk, masks);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto fail_build_affinity;
 	nr_present = ret;
@@ -387,15 +396,13 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
 		curgrp = 0;
 	else
 		curgrp = nr_present;
-	cpumask_andnot(npresmsk, cpu_possible_mask, cpu_present_mask);
+	cpumask_andnot(npresmsk, cpu_possible_mask, local_cpu_present_mask);
 	ret = __group_cpus_evenly(curgrp, numgrps, node_to_cpumask,
 				  npresmsk, nmsk, masks);
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		nr_others = ret;
 
  fail_build_affinity:
-	cpus_read_unlock();
-
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		WARN_ON(nr_present + nr_others < numgrps);
 
@@ -406,6 +413,9 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
 	free_cpumask_var(npresmsk);
 
  fail_nmsk:
+	free_cpumask_var(local_cpu_present_mask);
+
+ fail_local_pres_mask:
 	free_cpumask_var(nmsk);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		kfree(masks);
-- 
2.40.1