linux-kernel - Re: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per device for shared queue tag host

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:34:48 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Ed Lin <ed.lin@...mise.com>
Cc:	David Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@...gic.com>,
	Michael Reed <mdr@....com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"james.Bottomley" <james.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	jeff <jeff@...zik.org>, Promise_Linux <Promise_Linux@...mise.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per device for shared queue tag host

On Wed, Jan 24 2007, Ed Lin wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Somayajulu [mailto:david.somayajulu@...gic.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:03 PM
> > To: Ed Lin; Michael Reed
> > Cc: linux-scsi; linux-kernel; james.Bottomley; jeff; 
> > Promise_Linux; Jens Axboe
> > Subject: RE: [patch] scsi: use lock per host instead of per 
> > device for shared queue tag host
> > 
> > 
> > > It seems another driver(qla4xxx) is also using shared queue tag.
> > > It is natural to imagine there might be same symptom in that
> > > driver. But I don't know the driver and have no hardware so I
> > > can not say anything certain about it.
> > 
> > qla4xxx implements slightly differently, in the sense we 
> > don't have the
> > equivalent of         
> > struct st_ccb ccb[MU_MAX_REQUEST]; 
> > which is in struct st_hba. In other words we don't have a local array
> > which like stex to keep track of the outstanding commands to the hba.
> > 
> > We had a discussion on this one while implementing block-layer tagging
> > in qla4xxx and Jens Axboe added the test_and_set_bit() in the 
> > following
> > code in blk_queue_start_tag() to take care of it.
> > 	do {
> > 		tag = find_first_zero_bit(bqt->tag_map, bqt->max_depth);
> > 		if (tag >= bqt->max_depth)
> > 			return 1;
> > 	} while (test_and_set_bit(tag, bqt->tag_map));
> > Please see the following link for the discussion
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115886351206726&w=2
> > 
> > Cheers
> > David Somayajulu
> > QLogic Corporation
> >
> 
> Yes, this piece of code of allocating tag, in itself, is safe.
> But the following
> 
> 	if (unlikely(!__test_and_clear_bit(tag, bqt->tag_map))) {
> 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: attempt to clear non-busy tag
> (%d)\n",
> 		       __FUNCTION__, tag);
> 		return;
> 	}
> 
> code of freeing tag (in blk_queue_end_tag())seems to be using
> unsafe __test_and_clear_bit instead of test_and_clear_bit.
> I once changed it to test_and_clear_bit and thought it was fixed.
> But the panic happened thereafter nonetheless(using gcc 3.4.6.
> gcc 4.1.0 is better but still with kernel errors). bqt also needs
> to be protected in this case. Replacing queue lock per device with
> a host lock is a simple but logical fix for it. To introduce a
> more refined lock is possible, but seems too tedious and elaborate
> for this issue, since a queue lock is already out there, and a
> hostwide lock is needed anyway.

Does this fix it? There really should be no need to add extra locking
for this, it would be a shame.

diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index fb67897..e752e5d 100644
--- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -1072,12 +1072,16 @@ void blk_queue_end_tag(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
 		 */
 		return;
 
-	if (unlikely(!__test_and_clear_bit(tag, bqt->tag_map))) {
+	smp_mb__before_clear_bit();
+
+	if (unlikely(!test_and_clear_bit(tag, bqt->tag_map))) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: attempt to clear non-busy tag (%d)\n",
 		       __FUNCTION__, tag);
 		return;
 	}
 
+	smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
+
 	list_del_init(&rq->queuelist);
 	rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_QUEUED;
 	rq->tag = -1;

-- 
Jens Axboe

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