block: fix blk-iolatency accounting underflow

The blk-iolatency controller measures the time from rq_qos_throttle() to
rq_qos_done_bio() and attributes this time to the first bio that needs
to create the request. This means if a bio is plug-mergeable or
bio-mergeable, it gets to bypass the blk-iolatency controller.

The recent series [1], to tag all bios w/ blkgs undermined how iolatency
was determining which bios it was charging and should process in
rq_qos_done_bio(). Because all bios are being tagged, this caused the
atomic_t for the struct rq_wait inflight count to underflow and result
in a stall.

This patch adds a new flag BIO_TRACKED to let controllers know that a
bio is going through the rq_qos path. blk-iolatency now checks if this
flag is set to see if it should process the bio in rq_qos_done_bio().

Overloading BLK_QUEUE_ENTERED works, but makes the flag rules confusing.
BIO_THROTTLED was another candidate, but the flag is set for all bios
that have gone through blk-throttle code. Overloading a flag comes with
the burden of making sure that when either implementation changes, a
change in setting rules for one doesn't cause a bug in the other. So
here, we unfortunately opt for adding a new flag.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181205171039.73066-1-dennis@kernel.org/

Fixes: 5cdf2e3fea5e ("blkcg: associate blkg when associating a device")
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-rq-qos.h b/block/blk-rq-qos.h
index 3c85f26d3846..564851889550 100644
--- a/block/blk-rq-qos.h
+++ b/block/blk-rq-qos.h
@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ static inline void rq_qos_done_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 
 static inline void rq_qos_throttle(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 {
+	/*
+	 * BIO_TRACKED lets controllers know that a bio went through the
+	 * normal rq_qos path.
+	 */
+	bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_TRACKED);
 	if (q->rq_qos)
 		__rq_qos_throttle(q->rq_qos, bio);
 }