On Wed, Aug 31 2016 at  6:18pm -0400,
Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote:

> If pg_init_retries is set and a request is queued against a
> multipath device with all underlying block devices in the "dying"
> state then an infinite loop is triggered because activate_path()
> never succeeds and hence never calls pg_init_done(). Fix this by
> making ql_select_path() skip dying paths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>

Assuming DM multipath needs to be sprinkling these dying queue checks so
deep (which I'm not yet sold on):

Same would be needed in service-time and round-robin right?

> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c b/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c
> index 23f1786..a283c66 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c
> @@ -199,11 +199,12 @@ static struct dm_path *ql_select_path(struct 
> path_selector *ps, size_t nr_bytes)
>       list_move_tail(s->valid_paths.next, &s->valid_paths);
>  
>       list_for_each_entry(pi, &s->valid_paths, list) {
> -             if (!best ||
> -                 (atomic_read(&pi->qlen) < atomic_read(&best->qlen)))
> +             if ((!best ||
> +                  atomic_read(&pi->qlen) < atomic_read(&best->qlen)) &&
> +                 !blk_queue_dying(pi->path->dev->bdev->bd_queue))
>                       best = pi;
>  
> -             if (!atomic_read(&best->qlen))
> +             if (best && atomic_read(&best->qlen) == 0)
>                       break;
>       }
>  
> -- 
> 2.9.3
> 

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