Bug 1191030

Summary: Use rcu to protect concurrent access to data structures in GlusterD
Product: [Community] GlusterFS Reporter: Kaushal <kaushal>
Component: glusterdAssignee: Kaushal <kaushal>
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Fixed In Version: glusterfs-3.7.0 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-05-14 17:29:06 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Kaushal 2015-02-10 10:11:15 UTC
GlusterD has issues with concurrent access to data structures, which exist even with the usage of big-lock. To fix these issues, we will use RCU as the synchronization protection mechanism and use the userspace-rcu library to help with the implementation.

More details regarding the existing issues and RCU can be found in the mailing thread archived at http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2014-December/043382.html

Comment 1 Anand Avati 2015-02-10 10:21:06 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9605 (Add liburcu to build system) posted (#2) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 2 Anand Avati 2015-02-10 10:21:09 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9624 (glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists) posted (#1) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 3 Anand Avati 2015-02-13 13:42:05 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9605 (Add liburcu to build system) posted (#3) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 4 Anand Avati 2015-02-19 10:09:01 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9605 (build, glusterd: Add liburcu to build system) posted (#4) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 5 Anand Avati 2015-02-19 10:09:04 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9624 (glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists) posted (#2) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 6 Anand Avati 2015-02-19 10:09:07 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#1) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 7 Anand Avati 2015-02-20 17:48:46 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9605 (build, glusterd: Add liburcu to build system) posted (#5) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 8 Anand Avati 2015-02-20 17:48:49 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9624 (glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists) posted (#3) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 9 Anand Avati 2015-02-20 17:48:52 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#2) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 10 Anand Avati 2015-02-23 12:35:41 UTC
COMMIT: http://review.gluster.org/9605 committed in master by Krishnan Parthasarathi (kparthas) 
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commit 30357bcfcd4a7c92e0e59ff58a26d48c8416c564
Author: Kaushal M <kaushal>
Date:   Tue Jan 6 15:12:59 2015 +0530

    build, glusterd: Add liburcu to build system
    
    This patch adds liburcu related checks to the build system and updates
    the spec file to require 'userspace-rcu'.
    
    liburcu >= 0.7 is required to build GlusterFS, but 0.8 and above is
    preferred. For cases when liburcu 0.7.x is the available version, some
    function definitions (currently just one) from liburcu-0.8.6 have been
    made available in /contrib/userspace-rcu/.
    
    This change was developed on the git branch at [1]. This commit is a
    combination of the following commits on the development branch.
      a5cd6bd Add userspace-rcu checks to configure.ac
      fe5ced3 Add URCU libs to glusterd libtool flags
      1e43302 Add local definition of cds_list_add_tail_rcu for
              liburcu-0.7
      98da755 Move local definition of cds_list_add_tail_rcu into contrib
      8c44dfd Update spec file to include userspace-rcu0466e33 Rename
      rculist-additional.h to rculist-extra.h
      947c7b3 Add rculist-extra.h to dist
      19f32ad Address review comments 9605/1
    
    [1]: https://github.com/kshlm/glusterfs/tree/urcu
    
    Change-Id: Ifbb617d0dacce8fa01214f894badb9d8cdcaf56f
    BUG: 1191030
    Signed-off-by: Kaushal M <kaushal>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9605
    Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins.com>
    Reviewed-by: Atin Mukherjee <amukherj>
    Reviewed-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos>
    Reviewed-by: Krishnan Parthasarathi <kparthas>
    Tested-by: Krishnan Parthasarathi <kparthas>

Comment 11 Anand Avati 2015-02-24 12:02:51 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9624 (glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists) posted (#4) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 12 Anand Avati 2015-02-26 08:54:16 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9624 (glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists) posted (#5) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 13 Anand Avati 2015-02-26 08:54:19 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#3) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 14 Anand Avati 2015-02-26 10:01:45 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9624 (glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists) posted (#6) for review on master by Atin Mukherjee (amukherj)

Comment 15 Anand Avati 2015-02-26 10:01:53 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#4) for review on master by Atin Mukherjee (amukherj)

Comment 16 Anand Avati 2015-02-26 10:02:04 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9755 (glusterd: protect vol_list and volinfo with RCU) posted (#1) for review on master by Atin Mukherjee (amukherj)

Comment 17 Anand Avati 2015-03-02 06:45:45 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9624 (glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists) posted (#7) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 18 Anand Avati 2015-03-02 06:45:58 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#5) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 19 Anand Avati 2015-03-04 07:50:28 UTC
COMMIT: http://review.gluster.org/9624 committed in master by Krishnan Parthasarathi (kparthas) 
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commit 673ba2659cebe22ee30c43f9fb080f330150f55e
Author: Kaushal M <kaushal>
Date:   Tue Jan 6 18:23:41 2015 +0530

    glusterd: Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists
    
    This patch replaces usage of the libglusterfs lists data structures and
    API in glusterd with the lists data structures and API from liburcu. The
    liburcu data structes and APIs are a drop-in replacement for
    libglusterfs lists.
    
    All usages have been changed to keep the code consistent, and free from
    confusion.
    
    NOTE: glusterd_conf_t->xprt_list still uses the libglusterfs data
    structures and API, as it holds rpc_transport_t objects, which is not a
    part of glusterd and is not being changed in this patch.
    
    This change was developed on the git branch at [1]. This commit is a
    combination of the following commits on the development branch.
      6dac576 Replace libglusterfs lists with liburcu lists
      a51b5ab Fix compilation issues
      d98a06f Fix merge issues
      a5d918e Remove merge remnant
      1cca113 More style cleanup
      1917be3 Address review comments on 9624/1
      8d10f13 Use cds_lists for glusterd_svc_t
      524ad5d Add rculist header in glusterd-conn-helper.c
      646f294 glusterd: add list_add_order API honouring rcu
    
    [1]: https://github.com/kshlm/glusterfs/tree/urcu
    
    Change-Id: Ic613c5b6e496a677b9d3de15fc042a0492109fb0
    BUG: 1191030
    Signed-off-by: Kaushal M <kaushal>
    Signed-off-by: Krishnan Parthasarathi <kparthas>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9624
    Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins.com>
    Reviewed-by: Atin Mukherjee <amukherj>
    Reviewed-by: Gaurav Kumar Garg <ggarg>
    Reviewed-by: Anand Nekkunti <anekkunt>

Comment 20 Anand Avati 2015-03-05 13:52:15 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#6) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 21 Anand Avati 2015-03-06 06:04:34 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#7) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 22 Kaushal 2015-03-09 10:18:18 UTC
http://review.gluster.org/9695 implements most of the protection for peerinfos and the peers list. But it still leaves peerinfo protection during a volume transaction, especially the transaction peers list, open.

Comment 23 Anand Avati 2015-03-09 11:14:23 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#8) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 24 Anand Avati 2015-03-10 09:26:21 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#9) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 25 Kaushal 2015-03-10 10:50:38 UTC
Need to also address the issue the glusterd_quorum_count macro.

Comment 26 Anand Avati 2015-03-13 10:32:12 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9695 (glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.) posted (#10) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 27 Anand Avati 2015-03-16 09:19:18 UTC
COMMIT: http://review.gluster.org/9695 committed in master by Krishnan Parthasarathi (kparthas) 
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commit c7785f78420c94220954eef538ed4698713ebcdb
Author: Kaushal M <kaushal>
Date:   Thu Jan 8 19:24:59 2015 +0530

    glusterd: Protect the peer list and peerinfos with RCU.
    
    The peer list and the peerinfo objects are now protected using RCU.
    Design patterns described in the Paul McKenney's RCU dissertation [1]
    (sections 5 and 6) have been used to convert existing non-RCU protected
    code to RCU protected code.
    
    Currently, we are only targetting guaranteeing the existence of the
    peerinfo objects, ie., we are only looking to protect deletes, not all
    updaters. We chose this, as protecting all updates is a much more
    complex task.
    
    The steps used to accomplish this are,
    
    1. Remove all long lived direct references to peerinfo objects (apart
    from the peerinfo list). This includes references in glusterd_peerctx_t
    (RPC), glusterd_friend_sm_event_t (friend state machine) and others.
    This way no one has a reference to deleted peerinfo object.
    
    2. Replace the direct references with indirect references, ie., use
    peer uuid and peer hostname as indirect references to the peerinfo
    object. Any reader or updater now uses the indirect references to get to
    the actual peerinfo object, using glusterd_peerinfo_find. Cases where a
    peerinfo cannot be found are handled gracefully.
    
    3. The readers get and use the peerinfo object only within a RCU read
    critical section. This prevents the object from being deleted/freed when
    in actual use.
    
    4. The deletion of a peerinfo object is done in a ordered manner
    (glusterd_peerinfo_destroy). The object is first removed from the
    peerinfo list using an atomic list remove, but the list head is not
    reset to allow existing list readers to complete correctly. We wait for
    readers to complete, before resetting the list head. This removes the
    object from the list completely. After this no new readers can get a
    reference to the object, and it can be freed.
    
    This change was developed on the git branch at [2]. This commit is a
    combination of the following commits on the development branch.
      d7999b9 Protect the glusterd_conf_t->peers_list with RCU.
      0da85c4 Synchronize before INITing peerinfo list head after removing
              from list.
      32ec28a Add missing rcu_read_unlock
      8fed0b8 Correctly exit read critical section once peer is found.
      63db857 Free peerctx only on rpc destruction
      56eff26 Cleanup style issues
      e5f38b0 Indirection for events and friend_sm
      3c84ac4 In __glusterd_probe_cbk goto unlock only if peer already
              exists
      141d855 Address review comments on 9695/1
      aaeefed Protection during peer updates
      6eda33d Revert "Synchronize before INITing peerinfo list head after
              removing from list."
      f69db96 Remove unneeded line
      b43d2ec Address review comments on 9695/4
      7781921 Address review comments on 9695/5
      eb6467b Add some missing semi-colons
      328a47f Remove synchronize_rcu from
              glusterd_friend_sm_transition_state
      186e429 Run part of glusterd_friend_remove in critical section
      55c0a2e Fix gluster (peer status/ pool list) with no peers
      93f8dcf Use call_rcu to free peerinfo
      c36178c Introduce composite struct, gd_rcu_head
    
    [1]: http://www.rdrop.com/~paulmck/RCU/RCUdissertation.2004.07.14e1.pdf
    [2]: https://github.com/kshlm/glusterfs/tree/urcu
    
    Change-Id: Ic1480e59c86d41d25a6a3d159aa3e11fbb3cbc7b
    BUG: 1191030
    Signed-off-by: Kaushal M <kaushal>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9695
    Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins.com>
    Reviewed-by: Atin Mukherjee <amukherj>
    Reviewed-by: Anand Nekkunti <anekkunt>
    Reviewed-by: Krishnan Parthasarathi <kparthas>
    Tested-by: Krishnan Parthasarathi <kparthas>

Comment 28 Anand Avati 2015-03-18 07:24:15 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9922 (glusterd: Remove compilation warning) posted (#1) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 29 Anand Avati 2015-03-18 09:56:17 UTC
COMMIT: http://review.gluster.org/9922 committed in master by Kaushal M (kaushal) 
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commit 1250003956bc9fe7f030f0541f1c823cb282a07a
Author: Kaushal M <kaushal>
Date:   Tue Mar 17 12:06:25 2015 +0530

    glusterd: Remove compilation warning
    
    In glusterd_peerinfo_destroy, cast the passed 'strcut rcu_head *'
    pointer to 'gd_rcu_head *' before use in caa_container_of() to prevent
    the incompatible-pointer compilation warning.
    
    Also, refactor peerinfo->head to peerinfo->rcu_head to reduce confusion
    when reading code.
    
    This change was developed on the git branch at [1]. This commit is a
    combination of the following commits on the development branch.
      aa4a0bc Rename peerinfo->head to peerinfo->rcu_head
      c79144b Cast struct rcu_head * to gd_rcu_head * to prevent warning
      1d222c3 More head -> rcu_head renames
    
    [1]: https://github.com/kshlm/glusterfs/tree/urcu
    
    BUG: 1191030
    Change-Id: I7ede02090413839563ce44fdf6289697b28777e7
    Signed-off-by: Kaushal M <kaushal>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9922
    Reviewed-by: Atin Mukherjee <amukherj>
    Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins.com>

Comment 30 Anand Avati 2015-03-24 07:10:45 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9978 (glusterd: Prevent possible deadlock due to glusterd_quorum_count) posted (#1) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 31 Anand Avati 2015-03-24 07:30:49 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9978 (glusterd: Prevent possible deadlock due to glusterd_quorum_count) posted (#2) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 32 Anand Avati 2015-03-24 07:30:53 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/9979 (glusterd: Prevent possible dealock in glusterd_friend_remove) posted (#1) for review on master by Kaushal M (kaushal)

Comment 33 Kaushal 2015-03-24 12:26:39 UTC
Created a new bug to track the TODOs remaining for GlusterFS-3.7.0 release. Removing this bug as a blocker on glusterfs-3.7.0.

Comment 34 Niels de Vos 2015-05-14 17:29:06 UTC
This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.7.0, please open a new bug report.

glusterfs-3.7.0 has been announced on the Gluster mailinglists [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/10939
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user

Comment 35 Niels de Vos 2015-05-14 17:35:50 UTC
This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.7.0, please open a new bug report.

glusterfs-3.7.0 has been announced on the Gluster mailinglists [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/10939
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user

Comment 36 Niels de Vos 2015-05-14 17:38:12 UTC
This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.7.0, please open a new bug report.

glusterfs-3.7.0 has been announced on the Gluster mailinglists [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/10939
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user

Comment 37 Niels de Vos 2015-05-14 17:45:59 UTC
This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.7.0, please open a new bug report.

glusterfs-3.7.0 has been announced on the Gluster mailinglists [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/10939
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user

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