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SubjectRe: [PATCH 33/33] aio: fix kioctx not being freed after cancellation at exit time
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:35:50PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
> >
> > The recent changes overhauling fs/aio.c introduced a bug that results in the
> > kioctx not being freed when outstanding kiocbs are cancelled at exit_aio()
> > time. Specifically, a kiocb that is cancelled has its completion events
> > discarded by batch_complete_aio(), which then fails to wake up the process
> > stuck in free_ioctx(). Fix this by removing the event suppression in
> > batch_complete_aio() and modify the wait_event() condition in free_ioctx()
> > appropriately.
>
> Once you remove the event suppression, then it means that every single
> cancelled AIO will result in ki_ctx->reqs_available getting double
> incremented, right?

I'm not sure where you're seeing the double increment...

Previously, when we were supressing the events we needed to increment
reqs_available to account for the fact that we wouldn't be doing a
put_reqs_available() when reaping the io_event.

I think the commit description could've been a bit better - this patch
is changing the behaviour of cancellation, and it makes more sense in
context with some of the other cancellation patches - instead of
returning the io_event via io_cancel(), we're returning it via
io_getevents() as it would be normally.

So all removing the event supression is doing is causing the io_events
from cancelled kiocbs to be handled just like any other io_event.

> But reqs_available gets used in more places than
> just free_ioctx(). It also gets used (for example) by
> get_reqs_available(), which in turn gets used by aio_get_req() to
> decide whether or not it's safe to allocate another aio_request.
> Since reqs_available is getting double allocated, won't we end up
> allowing more AIO requests to be issued --- more than we would have
> room in the ring?
>
> Am I missing something?

You're right about how reqs_available is used, but unless I'm missing
something the accounting is correct. Maybe we should go over it
together?


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