linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2]nvme-pci: Fixes EEH failure on ppc

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Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 14:12:02 -0700
From:   Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
To:     wenxiong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, axboe@...com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wenxiong@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2]nvme-pci: Fixes EEH failure on ppc

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:09:38PM -0600, wenxiong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> @@ -1189,6 +1183,12 @@ static enum blk_eh_timer_return nvme_timeout(struct request *req, bool reserved)
>  	struct nvme_command cmd;
>  	u32 csts = readl(dev->bar + NVME_REG_CSTS);
>  
> +	/* If PCI error recovery process is happening, we cannot reset or
> +	 * the recovery mechanism will surely fail.
> +	 */
> +	if (pci_channel_offline(to_pci_dev(dev->dev)))
> +		return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER;

So reading csts is what triggers EEH to be detected and get the channel
set offline? If so, don't we need a memory barrier before calling
pci_channel_offline? Otherwise it looks like the compiler optimization
could reorder these.