linux-kernel - Re: 4.14: WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 2895 at block/blk-mq.c:1144 with virtio-blk (also 4.12 stable)

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Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:27:04 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        "mst@...hat.com" <mst@...hat.com>,
        "jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: 4.14: WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 2895 at block/blk-mq.c:1144 with
 virtio-blk (also 4.12 stable)

On 11/21/2017 03:14 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Bisect points to
> 
> 1b5a7455d345b223d3a4658a9e5fce985b7998c1 is the first bad commit
> commit 1b5a7455d345b223d3a4658a9e5fce985b7998c1
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Date:   Mon Jun 26 12:20:57 2017 +0200
> 
>     blk-mq: Create hctx for each present CPU
>     
>     commit 4b855ad37194f7bdbb200ce7a1c7051fecb56a08 upstream.
>     
>     Currently we only create hctx for online CPUs, which can lead to a lot
>     of churn due to frequent soft offline / online operations.  Instead
>     allocate one for each present CPU to avoid this and dramatically simplify
>     the code.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>     Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
>     Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
>     Cc: linux-block@...r.kernel.org
>     Cc: linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org
>     Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626102058.10200-3-hch@lst.de
>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>     Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>
>     Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

I wonder if we're simply not getting the masks updated correctly. I'll
take a look.

-- 
Jens Axboe