Am 26.05.2025 um 15:21 hat Fiona Ebner geschrieben:
> This is in preparation to mark bdrv_drained_begin() as GRAPH_UNLOCKED.
> 
> Note that even if bdrv_drained_begin() were already marked as
> GRAPH_UNLOCKED, TSA would not complain about the instance in
> bdrv_change_aio_context() before this change, because it is preceded
> by a bdrv_graph_rdunlock_main_loop() call. It is not correct to
> release the lock here, and in case the caller holds a write lock, it
> wouldn't actually release the lock.
> 
> In combination with block-stream, there is a deadlock that can happen
> because of this [0]. In particular, it can happen that
> main thread              IO thread
> 1. acquires write lock
>                          in blk_co_do_preadv_part():
>                          2. have non-zero blk->in_flight
>                          3. try to acquire read lock
> 4. begin drain
> 
> Steps 3 and 4 might be switched. Draining will poll and get stuck,
> because it will see the non-zero in_flight counter. But the IO thread
> will not make any progress either, because it cannot acquire the read
> lock.
> 
> After this change, all paths to bdrv_change_aio_context() drain:
> bdrv_change_aio_context() is called by:
> 1. bdrv_child_cb_change_aio_ctx() which is only called via the
>    change_aio_ctx() callback, see below.
> 2. bdrv_child_change_aio_context(), see below.
> 3. bdrv_try_change_aio_context(), where a drained section is
>    introduced.
> 
> The change_aio_ctx() callback is called by:
> 1. bdrv_attach_child_common_abort(), where a drained section is
>    introduced.
> 2. bdrv_attach_child_common(), where a drained section is introduced.
> 3. bdrv_parent_change_aio_context(), see below.
> 
> bdrv_child_change_aio_context() is called by:
> 1. bdrv_change_aio_context(), i.e. recursive, so being in a drained
>    section is invariant.
> 2. child_job_change_aio_ctx(), which is only called via the
>    change_aio_ctx() callback, see above.
> 
> bdrv_parent_change_aio_context() is called by:
> 1. bdrv_change_aio_context(), i.e. recursive, so being in a drained
>    section is invariant.
> 
> This resolves all code paths. Note that bdrv_attach_child_common()
> and bdrv_attach_child_common_abort() hold the graph write lock and
> callers of bdrv_try_change_aio_context() might too, so they are not
> actually allowed to drain either. This will be addressed in the
> following commits.
> 
> More granular draining is not trivially possible, because
> bdrv_change_aio_context() can recursively call itself e.g. via
> bdrv_child_change_aio_context().
> 
> [0]: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/73839c04-7616-407e-b057-80ca69e63...@virtuozzo.com/
> 
> Reported-by: Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobys...@virtuozzo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.eb...@proxmox.com>

Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>


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