From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
To: andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com
Cc: devel@openvz.org
Subject: [Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 0/4] dm-ploop: fix the pio submission stop around cmds
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 09:36:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261103083630.130596-1-den@openvz.org> (raw)
A cmd stops pio submission and waits for the inflight pios before it
rewrites the BAT levels or deltas[], and expects nothing to touch them
until it resumes. Konstantin found three ways this does not hold while
reviewing the VSTOR-151979 series (VSTOR-152985, VSTOR-152984,
VSTOR-152981):
- a submitter racing the stop either runs without the cmd waiting for
it, or is parked after resume and never completes (patch 1);
- the ploop_allocator() thread is not stopped at all. It truncates the
top delta while merge or flip moves it in deltas[], cutting the live
image to the preallocation size (patch 3). The thread can also miss a
wakeup, which stalls the device by itself and would hang the new wait,
so patch 2 fixes that first;
- a grow failing to copy a cluster resumes submission with that
cluster's BAT page still busy, and writes to it hang (patch 4).
Patch 3 is the one losing data: a snapshot delete under write load is
enough.
Tested on dev-cl04, stock 6.12.0-211.52.1.22.11.vz10, dm-ploop built
out of tree:
- each bug reproduced on the stock module, the races with a test-only
kprobe module widening the window: a pio running past the suspend of
a cmd; a pio never completing after resume; the top image truncated
from 512M to 128M by a merge and to 256M by a flip; after a grow
failing with ENOSPC on a full host fs, a writer stuck in D state, an
unsuspendable device and a later cmd failing with ETIMEDOUT. None of
them reproduce with the series;
- fio 4k random reads and writes, O_DIRECT, 1 to 48 jobs, on a fully
allocated image over brd: IOPS and system CPU stay within the
run-to-run spread of the stock module. This setup tops out at about
420K IOPS elsewhere in dm-ploop and would not show a lock taken on
submission either, so patch 1 keeps that path lockless;
- the ploop pytest suite, ploop and qcow2 formats, passes. A test for
patch 4 goes to the ploop tests separately.
Denis V. Lunev (4):
dm-ploop: fix pio submission racing with the suspend and resume of a
cmd
dm-ploop: fix a lost wakeup of the ploop_allocator() thread
dm-ploop: wait for the ploop_allocator() thread before changing
deltas[]
dm-ploop: fix a failed cluster copy on grow leaving the BAT page busy
drivers/md/dm-ploop-cmd.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
drivers/md/dm-ploop-target.c | 4 ++++
drivers/md/dm-ploop.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
base-commit: 09eb9a82fe872048d082391415d1cdeda2ac6879
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2026-11-03 8:36 Denis V. Lunev [this message]
2026-11-03 8:36 Denis V. Lunev
2026-11-04 13:24 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-11-04 17:14 ` Konstantin Khorenko
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