linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.8 171/255] blk-mq: order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED

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Date:   Tue,  1 Sep 2020 17:10:27 +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, kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        David Jeffery <djeffery@...hat.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 5.8 171/255] blk-mq: order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED_RESTART

From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>

commit d7d8535f377e9ba87edbf7fbbd634ac942f3f54f upstream.

SCHED_RESTART code path is relied to re-run queue for dispatch requests
in hctx->dispatch. Meantime the SCHED_RSTART flag is checked when adding
requests to hctx->dispatch.

memory barriers have to be used for ordering the following two pair of OPs:

1) adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED_RESTART in
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()

2) clearing SCHED_RESTART and checking if there is request in hctx->dispatch
in blk_mq_sched_restart().

Without the added memory barrier, either:

1) blk_mq_sched_restart() may miss requests added to hctx->dispatch meantime
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() observes SCHED_RESTART, and not run queue in
dispatch side

or

2) blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list still sees SCHED_RESTART, and not run queue
in dispatch side, meantime checking if there is request in
hctx->dispatch from blk_mq_sched_restart() is missed.

IO hang in ltp/fs_fill test is reported by kernel test robot:

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/26/77

Turns out it is caused by the above out-of-order OPs. And the IO hang
can't be observed any more after applying this patch.

Fixes: bd166ef183c2 ("blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@...hat.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 block/blk-mq-sched.c |    9 +++++++++
 block/blk-mq.c       |    9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ void blk_mq_sched_restart(struct blk_mq_
 		return;
 	clear_bit(BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART, &hctx->state);
 
+	/*
+	 * Order clearing SCHED_RESTART and list_empty_careful(&hctx->dispatch)
+	 * in blk_mq_run_hw_queue(). Its pair is the barrier in
+	 * blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(). So dispatch code won't see SCHED_RESTART,
+	 * meantime new request added to hctx->dispatch is missed to check in
+	 * blk_mq_run_hw_queue().
+	 */
+	smp_mb();
+
 	blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, true);
 }
 
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -1324,6 +1324,15 @@ bool blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(struct requ
 		spin_unlock(&hctx->lock);
 
 		/*
+		 * Order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking
+		 * SCHED_RESTART flag. The pair of this smp_mb() is the one
+		 * in blk_mq_sched_restart(). Avoid restart code path to
+		 * miss the new added requests to hctx->dispatch, meantime
+		 * SCHED_RESTART is observed here.
+		 */
+		smp_mb();
+
+		/*
 		 * If SCHED_RESTART was set by the caller of this function and
 		 * it is no longer set that means that it was cleared by another
 		 * thread and hence that a queue rerun is needed.