linux-kernel - [PATCH] blk-mq: fix a hung issue when fsync

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Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:01:56 +0800
From:   Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@...cle.com>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     m19@...rianstecker.de, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] blk-mq: fix a hung issue when fsync

Florian reported a io hung issue when fsync(). It should be
triggered by following race condition.

data + post flush         a flush

blk_flush_complete_seq
  case REQ_FSEQ_DATA
    blk_flush_queue_rq
    issued to driver      blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list
                            try to issue a flush req
                            failed due to NON-NCQ command
                            .queue_rq return BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE

request completion
  req->end_io // doesn't check RESTART
  mq_flush_data_end_io
    case REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH
      blk_kick_flush
        do nothing because previous flush
        has not been completed
     blk_mq_run_hw_queue
                              insert rq to hctx->dispatch
                              due to RESTART is still set, do nothing

To fix this, replace the blk_mq_run_hw_queue in mq_flush_data_end_io
with blk_mq_sched_restart to check and clear the RESTART flag.

Fixes: bd166ef1 (blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulers)
Reported-by: Florian Stecker <m19@...rianstecker.de>
Tested-by: Florian Stecker <m19@...rianstecker.de>
Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@...cle.com>
---
 block/blk-flush.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index a3fc7191..6e0f2d9 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static void mq_flush_data_end_io(struct request *rq, blk_status_t error)
 	blk_flush_complete_seq(rq, fq, REQ_FSEQ_DATA, error);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fq->mq_flush_lock, flags);
 
-	blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, true);
+	blk_mq_sched_restart(hctx);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.7.4