[Gluster-devel] important change to syncop infra

Pranith Kumar Karampuri pkarampu at redhat.com
Thu Jan 2 15:46:19 UTC 2014


Avati, Brian,
    Could you guys please do a round of review for the following files and provide your valuable inputs.
http://review.gluster.com/#/c/6475/4/xlators/features/qemu-block/src/bdrv-xlator.c
http://review.gluster.com/#/c/6475/4/xlators/features/qemu-block/src/qb-coroutines.c

Pranith.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>
> To: "Anand Avati" <avati at gluster.org>
> Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:09:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] important change to syncop infra
> 
> hi,
>      If there are no more objections, I will send the final patch on Monday.
> 
> Pranith.
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Anand Avati" <avati at gluster.org>
> > To: "Anand Subramanian" <anands at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>,
> > gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:09:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] important change to syncop infra
> > 
> > The decision of doing away with -O2 is beyond our control, and we shouldn't
> > have code which depend on optimization to be disabled to behave properly.
> > Representing -errno as return is the cleanest fix (that's how other
> > projects which use setcontext/getcontext are behaving too.) If there are
> > any new further issues which arise from setcontext/getcontext, I'm tempted
> > to change the internal implementation to use a a vanilla pthread pool.
> > 
> > Avati
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Anand Subramanian
> > <ansubram at redhat.com>wrote:
> > 
> > > Is doing away with -O2 an option that was ever considered or is it that
> > > we
> > > simply must have O2 on?
> > >
> > > (I understand that turning off O2 can open some so-far-unexposed can of
> > > worms and a lot of soaking maybe required, and also that we may have had
> > > a
> > > good set of perf related reasons to have settled on -O2 in the first
> > > place,
> > > but wanted to understand nevertheless...)
> > >
> > > Anand
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/11/2013 02:21 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> > >
> > >> hi,
> > >>      We found a day-1 bug when syncop_xxx() infra is used inside a
> > >> synctask with compilation optimization (CFLAGS -O2). This bug has been
> > >> dormant for at least 2 years.
> > >> There are around ~400(rebalance, replace-brick, bd, self-heal-daemon,
> > >> quota, fuse lock/fd migration) places where syncop is used in the code
> > >> base
> > >> all of which are potential candidates which can take the hit.
> > >>
> > >> I sent first round of patch at http://review.gluster.com/6475 to catch
> > >> regressions upstream.
> > >> These are the files that are affected by the changes I introduced to fix
> > >> this:
> > >>
> > >>   api/src/glfs-fops.c                             |  36
> > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >>   api/src/glfs-handleops.c                        |  15 ++++++++++++++
> > >>   api/src/glfs-internal.h                         |   7 +++++++
> > >>   api/src/glfs-resolve.c                          |  10 ++++++++++
> > >>   libglusterfs/src/syncop.c                       | 117
> > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >> ++++++++++++-------------------------------------
> > >>   xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr-self-heald.c        |  45
> > >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> > >>   xlators/cluster/afr/src/pump.c                  |  12 ++++++++++--
> > >>   xlators/cluster/dht/src/dht-helper.c            |  24
> > >> +++++++++++++++--------
> > >>   xlators/cluster/dht/src/dht-rebalance.c         | 168
> > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> > >> -------------------------------------
> > >>   xlators/cluster/dht/src/dht-selfheal.c          |   6 ++++--
> > >>   xlators/features/locks/src/posix.c              |   3 ++-
> > >>   xlators/features/qemu-block/src/bdrv-xlator.c   |  15 ++++----------
> > >>   xlators/features/qemu-block/src/qb-coroutines.c |  14 ++++++++++----
> > >>   xlators/mount/fuse/src/fuse-bridge.c            |  16 ++++++++++-----
> > >>
> > >> Please review your respective component for these changes in gerrit.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> Pranith.
> > >>
> > >> Detailed explanation of the Root cause:
> > >> We found the bug in 'gf_defrag_migrate_data' in rebalance operation:
> > >>
> > >> Lets look at interesting parts of the function:
> > >>
> > >> int
> > >> gf_defrag_migrate_data (xlator_t *this, gf_defrag_info_t *defrag, loc_t
> > >> *loc,
> > >>                          dict_t *migrate_data)
> > >> {
> > >> .....
> > >> code section - [ Loop ]
> > >>          while ((ret = syncop_readdirp (this, fd, 131072, offset, NULL,
> > >>                                         &entries)) != 0) {
> > >> .....
> > >> code section - [ ERRNO-1 ] (errno of readdirp is stored in
> > >> readdir_operrno by a thread)
> > >>                  /* Need to keep track of ENOENT errno, that means,
> > >>                  there
> > >> is no
> > >>                     need to send more readdirp() */
> > >>                  readdir_operrno = errno;
> > >> .....
> > >> code section - [ SYNCOP-1 ] (syncop_getxattr is called by a thread)
> > >>                          ret = syncop_getxattr (this, &entry_loc, &dict,
> > >>                                                 GF_XATTR_LINKINFO_KEY);
> > >> code section - [ ERRNO-2]   (checking for failures of syncop_getxattr().
> > >> This may not always be executed in same thread which executed
> > >> [SYNCOP-1])
> > >>                          if (ret < 0) {
> > >>                                  if (errno != ENODATA) {
> > >>                                          loglevel = GF_LOG_ERROR;
> > >>                                          defrag->total_failures += 1;
> > >> .....
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> the function above could be executed by thread(t1) till [SYNCOP-1] and
> > >> code from [ERRNO-2] can be executed by a different thread(t2) because of
> > >> the way syncop-infra schedules the tasks.
> > >>
> > >> when the code is compiled with -O2 optimization this is the assembly
> > >> code
> > >> that is generated:
> > >>   [ERRNO-1]
> > >> 1165                        readdir_operrno = errno; <<---- errno gets
> > >> expanded as *(__errno_location())
> > >>     0x00007fd149d48b60 <+496>:        callq  0x7fd149d410c0
> > >> <__errno_location at plt>
> > >>     0x00007fd149d48b72 <+514>:        mov    %rax,0x50(%rsp) <<------
> > >> Address returned by __errno_location() is stored in a special location
> > >> in
> > >> stack for later use.
> > >>     0x00007fd149d48b77 <+519>:        mov    (%rax),%eax
> > >>     0x00007fd149d48b79 <+521>:        mov    %eax,0x78(%rsp)
> > >> ....
> > >>   [ERRNO-2]
> > >> 1281                                        if (errno != ENODATA) {
> > >>     0x00007fd149d492ae <+2366>:        mov    0x50(%rsp),%rax <<-----
> > >>  Because it already stored the address returned by __errno_location(),
> > >>  it
> > >> just dereferences the address to get the errno value. BUT THIS CODE NEED
> > >> NOT BE EXECUTED BY SAME THREAD!!!
> > >>     0x00007fd149d492b3 <+2371>:        mov    $0x9,%ebp
> > >>     0x00007fd149d492b8 <+2376>:        mov    (%rax),%edi
> > >>     0x00007fd149d492ba <+2378>:        cmp    $0x3d,%edi
> > >>
> > >> The problem is that __errno_location() value of t1 and t2 are different.
> > >> So [ERRNO-2] ends up reading errno of t1 instead of errno of t2 even
> > >> though
> > >> t2 is executing [ERRNO-2] code section.
> > >>
> > >> When code is compiled without any optimization for [ERRNO-2]:
> > >> 1281                                        if (errno != ENODATA) {
> > >>     0x00007fd58e7a326f <+2237>:        callq  0x7fd58e797300
> > >> <__errno_location at plt><<--- As it is calling __errno_location() again it
> > >> gets the location from t2 so it works as intended.
> > >>     0x00007fd58e7a3274 <+2242>:        mov    (%rax),%eax
> > >>     0x00007fd58e7a3276 <+2244>:        cmp    $0x3d,%eax
> > >>     0x00007fd58e7a3279 <+2247>:        je     0x7fd58e7a32a1
> > >> <gf_defrag_migrate_data+2287>
> > >>
> > >> Fix:
> > >> We decided to make syncop_xxx() return (-errno) value as the return
> > >> value
> > >> in case of errors and all the functions which make syncop_xxx() will
> > >> need
> > >> to use (-ret) to figure out the reason for failure in case of
> > >> syncop_xxx()
> > >> failures.
> > >>
> > >> Pranith
> > >>
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