linux-kernel - Re: Regression v6.11 booting cannot mount harddisks (xfs)

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgO9kMbiKLcD3fY0Yt5PJSPD=9NVH0cs=xQFSk8dU9Z1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:30:02 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, 
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, cassel@...nel.org, handan.babu@...cle.com, 
	djwong@...nel.org, Linux-XFS <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>, hdegoede@...hat.com, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	kernel-team <kernel-team@...udflare.com>
Subject: Re: Regression v6.11 booting cannot mount harddisks (xfs)

On Tue, 10 Sept 2024 at 10:53, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> af2814149883e2c1851866ea2afcd8eadc040f79 is the first bad commit

Just for fun - can you test moving the queue freezing *inside* the
mutex, ie something like

  --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
  +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
  @@ -670,11 +670,11 @@ queue_attr_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct
attribute *attr,
          if (!entry->store)
                  return -EIO;

  -       blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
          mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
  +       blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
          res = entry->store(disk, page, length);
  -       mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
          blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q);
  +       mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
          return res;
   }

(Just do it by hand, my patch is whitespace-damaged on purpose -
untested and not well thought through).

Because I'm wondering whether maybe some IO is done under the
sysfs_lock, and then you might have a deadlock?

              Linus