bcache: do not mark writeback_running too early
authorShenghui Wang <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:53:50 +0000 (22:53 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:20:07 +0000 (09:20 +0100)
commitb2d84967f07658bab63e6157bd2758db5cc68c86
treef671cf4c3340d546074c39d5545866acb0c6a6e9
parent6f48e23888b92cacab7c610a6220429256b348cf
bcache: do not mark writeback_running too early

[ Upstream commit 79b791466e525c98f6aeee9acf5726e7b27f4231 ]

A fresh backing device is not attached to any cache_set, and
has no writeback kthread created until first attached to some
cache_set.

But bch_cached_dev_writeback_init run
"
dc->writeback_running = true;
WARN_ON(test_and_clear_bit(BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING,
&dc->disk.flags));
"
for any newly formatted backing devices.

For a fresh standalone backing device, we can get something like
following even if no writeback kthread created:
------------------------
/sys/block/bcache0/bcache# cat writeback_running
1
/sys/block/bcache0/bcache# cat writeback_rate_debug
rate: 512.0k/sec
dirty: 0.0k
target: 0.0k
proportional: 0.0k
integral: 0.0k
change: 0.0k/sec
next io: -15427384ms

The none ZERO fields are misleading as no alive writeback kthread yet.

Set dc->writeback_running false as no writeback thread created in
bch_cached_dev_writeback_init().

We have writeback thread created and woken up in bch_cached_dev_writeback
_start(). Set dc->writeback_running true before bch_writeback_queue()
called, as a writeback thread will check if dc->writeback_running is true
before writing back dirty data, and hung if false detected.

After the change, we can get the following output for a fresh standalone
backing device:
-----------------------
/sys/block/bcache0/bcache$ cat writeback_running
0
/sys/block/bcache0/bcache# cat writeback_rate_debug
rate: 0.0k/sec
dirty: 0.0k
target: 0.0k
proportional: 0.0k
integral: 0.0k
change: 0.0k/sec
next io: 0ms

v1 -> v2:
  Set dc->writeback_running before bch_writeback_queue() called,

Signed-off-by: Shenghui Wang <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c