Re: [PATCH 3/3] Make scsi_free_queue() abort pending requests

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>]

On 05/14/12 18:43, Bart Van Assche wrote:

> On 05/07/12 00:44, Mike Christie wrote:
>> On 05/05/2012 01:07 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>> On 05/04/12 20:32, Mike Christie wrote:
>>>> Oh not wait. I do not get the patch. After blk_cleanup_queue runs then
>>>> no IO should be running and no new IO can be queued can it?
>>>>
>>>>>>  	 */
>>>>>>  	blk_cleanup_queue(q);
>>>>>> +	blk_abort_queue(q);
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  	if (sdev->is_visible) {
>>>>>>  		if (scsi_device_set_state(sdev, SDEV_CANCEL) != 0)
>>>
>>> After blk_cleanup_queue() finished no new requests will be queued to a
>>> SCSI LLD. However, that function doesn't wait for already queued
>>> requests to finish. I have verified with ib_srp LLD that the\
>>
>> It does for me. It is supposed to isn't it? For BLOCK FS requests
>> blk_drain_queue will wait for the q->in_flight counters to go to zero.
>> They get incremented at scsi_request_fn-> blk_start_request ->
>> blk_dequeue_request time and decremented in scsi_end_request ->
>> blk_end_request ->  blk_end_bidi_request -> blk_finish_request ->
>> blk_put_request -> elv_completed_request. For BLOCK PC and other
>> requests there is the rq.count tracking.
> 
> I've had a closer look at this and noticed that the q->in_flight[]
> decrement in elv_completed_request() is non-atomic and also that that
> function is called from one context with the queue lock held
> (__blk_put_request()) but from another context without the queue lock
> held (blk_execute_rq_nowait() -> flush_end_io() ->
> elv_completed_request()). I'd appreciate it if someone who is more
> familiar with the block layer than myself could comment on this.


(replying to my own e-mail)

Does the patch below make sense ? It ensures that the queue lock
is held around all end_io invocations.

---
 block/blk-core.c  |    4 ++++
 block/blk-exec.c  |    2 +-
 block/blk-flush.c |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 1f61b74..41ff2af 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ void blk_drain_queue(struct request_queue *q, bool drain_all)
 			}
 		}
 
+		WARN_ON(drain == 0 && !list_empty(&q->timeout_list));
+
 		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 
 		if (!drain)
@@ -2287,6 +2289,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_unprep_request);
  */
 static void blk_finish_request(struct request *req, int error)
 {
+	lockdep_assert_held(req->q->queue_lock);
+
 	if (blk_rq_tagged(req))
 		blk_queue_end_tag(req->q, req);
 
diff --git a/block/blk-exec.c b/block/blk-exec.c
index fb2cbd5..6724fab 100644
--- a/block/blk-exec.c
+++ b/block/blk-exec.c
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ void blk_execute_rq_nowait(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
 	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 
 	if (unlikely(blk_queue_dead(q))) {
-		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 		rq->errors = -ENXIO;
 		if (rq->end_io)
 			rq->end_io(rq, rq->errors);
+		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 		return;
 	}
 
diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 720ad60..7bb8ed0 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ static void flush_end_io(struct request *flush_rq, int error)
 	bool queued = false;
 	struct request *rq, *n;
 
+	lockdep_assert_held(q->queue_lock);
+
 	BUG_ON(q->flush_pending_idx == q->flush_running_idx);
 
 	/* account completion of the flush request */
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