linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.3 302/344] block: mq-deadline: Fix queue restart handling

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Message-Id: <20191003154609.217449351@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu,  3 Oct 2019 17:54:27 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Hans Holmberg <Hans.Holmberg@....com>,
        Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 5.3 302/344] block: mq-deadline: Fix queue restart handling

From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>

commit cb8acabbe33b110157955a7425ee876fb81e6bbc upstream.

Commit 7211aef86f79 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion
handling") added a call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() in
dd_dispatch_request() to make sure that write request dispatching does
not stall when all target zones are locked. This fix left a subtle race
when a write completion happens during a dispatch execution on another
CPU:

CPU 0: Dispatch			CPU1: write completion

dd_dispatch_request()
    lock(&dd->lock);
    ...
    lock(&dd->zone_lock);	dd_finish_request()
    rq = find request		lock(&dd->zone_lock);
    unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
    				zone write unlock
				unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
				...
				__blk_mq_free_request
                                      check restart flag (not set)
				      -> queue not run
    ...
    if (!rq && have writes)
        blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx()
    unlock(&dd->lock)

Since the dispatch context finishes after the write request completion
handling, marking the queue as needing a restart is not seen from
__blk_mq_free_request() and blk_mq_sched_restart() not executed leading
to the dispatch stall under 100% write workloads.

Fix this by moving the call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() from
dd_dispatch_request() into dd_finish_request() under the zone lock to
ensure full mutual exclusion between write request dispatch selection
and zone unlock on write request completion.

Fixes: 7211aef86f79 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion handling")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Hans Holmberg <Hans.Holmberg@....com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@....com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 block/mq-deadline.c |   19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/block/mq-deadline.c
+++ b/block/mq-deadline.c
@@ -377,13 +377,6 @@ done:
  * hardware queue, but we may return a request that is for a
  * different hardware queue. This is because mq-deadline has shared
  * state for all hardware queues, in terms of sorting, FIFOs, etc.
- *
- * For a zoned block device, __dd_dispatch_request() may return NULL
- * if all the queued write requests are directed at zones that are already
- * locked due to on-going write requests. In this case, make sure to mark
- * the queue as needing a restart to ensure that the queue is run again
- * and the pending writes dispatched once the target zones for the ongoing
- * write requests are unlocked in dd_finish_request().
  */
 static struct request *dd_dispatch_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 {
@@ -392,9 +385,6 @@ static struct request *dd_dispatch_reque
 
 	spin_lock(&dd->lock);
 	rq = __dd_dispatch_request(dd);
-	if (!rq && blk_queue_is_zoned(hctx->queue) &&
-	    !list_empty(&dd->fifo_list[WRITE]))
-		blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(hctx);
 	spin_unlock(&dd->lock);
 
 	return rq;
@@ -561,6 +551,13 @@ static void dd_prepare_request(struct re
  * spinlock so that the zone is never unlocked while deadline_fifo_request()
  * or deadline_next_request() are executing. This function is called for
  * all requests, whether or not these requests complete successfully.
+ *
+ * For a zoned block device, __dd_dispatch_request() may have stopped
+ * dispatching requests if all the queued requests are write requests directed
+ * at zones that are already locked due to on-going write requests. To ensure
+ * write request dispatch progress in this case, mark the queue as needing a
+ * restart to ensure that the queue is run again after completion of the
+ * request and zones being unlocked.
  */
 static void dd_finish_request(struct request *rq)
 {
@@ -572,6 +569,8 @@ static void dd_finish_request(struct req
 
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->zone_lock, flags);
 		blk_req_zone_write_unlock(rq);
+		if (!list_empty(&dd->fifo_list[WRITE]))
+			blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(rq->mq_hctx);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dd->zone_lock, flags);
 	}
 }