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    rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two · 11c7aa0d
    Jan Kara authored
    Commit 545fbd07 ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
    tried to fix a problem that a process could be sleeping in rq_qos_wait()
    without anyone to wake it up. However the fix is not complete and the
    following can still happen:
    
    CPU1 (waiter1)		CPU2 (waiter2)		CPU3 (waker)
    rq_qos_wait()		rq_qos_wait()
      acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
    			  acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
    
    						completes IOs, inflight
    						  decreased
      prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
    			  prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
      has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true as there are two sleepers
    			  has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true
      io_schedule()		  io_schedule()
    
    Deadlock as now there's nobody to wakeup the two waiters. The logic
    automatically blocking when there are already sleepers is really subtle
    and the only way to make it work reliably is that we check whether there
    are some waiters in the queue when adding ourselves there. That way, we
    are guaranteed that at least the first process to enter the wait queue
    will recheck the waiting condition before going to sleep and thus
    guarantee forward progress.
    
    Fixes: 545fbd07
    
     ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607112613.25344-1-jack@suse.cz
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    11c7aa0d