** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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Title:
Ubuntu 16.04 (4.4.0-127) hangs on boot with virtio-scsi MQ enabled
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
== SRU Justification ==
The bug reporter noticed that Xenial guests running on Nutanix AHV stopped
booting after they were upgraded to 4.4.0-127. Only guests with scsi mq
enabled suffered from this problem. AHV is one of the few hypervisor
products to offer multiqueue for virtio-scsi devices.
Upon further investigation, the saw that the kernel would hang during the
scanning of scsi targets. More specifically, immediately after coming
across a target without any luns present.
It was found the following commit introduced this regression:
commit f1f609d8015e1d34d39458924dcd9524fccd4307
Author: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Apr 19 21:40:00 2018 +0200
The patch spins on the target's 'reqs' counter waiting for the target
to quiesce.
Further study revealed that virtio-scsi itself is broken in a way that it
doesn't increment the 'reqs' counter when submitting requests on MQ in
certain conditions. That caused the counter to go to -1 (on the completion
of the first request) and the CPU to hang indefinitely.
This regression is fixed by the requested SAUCE patch.
== Fix ==
UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) virtio-scsi: Increment reqs counter.
== Regression Potential ==
Low. Limited to virtio and fixes a regression.
== Test Case ==
A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug
reporter.
The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
We noticed that Ubuntu 16.04 guests running on Nutanix AHV stopped
booting after they were upgraded to the latest kernel (4.4.0-127).
Only guests with scsi mq enabled suffered from this problem. AHV is
one of the few hypervisor products to offer multiqueue for virtio-scsi
devices.
Upon further investigation, we could see that the kernel would hang
during the scanning of scsi targets. More specifically, immediately
after coming across a target without any luns present. That's the
first time the kernel destroys a target (given it doesn't have luns).
This could be confirmed with gdb (attached to qemu's gdbserver):
#0 0xffffffffc0045039 in ?? ()
#1 0xffff88022c753c98 in ?? ()
#2 0xffffffff815d1de6 in scsi_target_destroy (starget=0xffff88022ad62400)
at /build/linux-E14mqW/linux-4.4.0/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c:322
This shows the guest vCPU stuck on virtio-scsi's implementation of
target_destroy. Despite lacking symbols, we managed to examine the
virtio_scsi_target_state to see that the 'reqs' counter was invalid:
(gdb) p *(struct virtio_scsi_target_state *)starget->hostdata
$6 = {tgt_seq = {sequence = 0}, reqs = {counter = -1}, req_vq =
0xffff88022cbdd9e8}
(gdb)
This drew our attention to the following patch which is exclusive to the
Ubuntu kernel:
commit f1f609d8015e1d34d39458924dcd9524fccd4307
Author: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Apr 19 21:40:00 2018 +0200
In a nutshell, the patch spins on the target's 'reqs' counter waiting for the
target to quiesce:
--- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
@@ -785,6 +785,10 @@ static int virtscsi_target_alloc(struct scsi_target
*starget)
static void virtscsi_target_destroy(struct scsi_target *starget)
{
struct virtio_scsi_target_state *tgt = starget->hostdata;
+
+ /* we can race with concurrent virtscsi_complete_cmd */
+ while (atomic_read(&tgt->reqs))
+ cpu_relax();
kfree(tgt);
}
Personally, I think this is a catastrophic way of waiting for a target
to quiesce since virtscsi_target_destroy() is called with IRQs
disabled from scsi_scan.c:scsi_target_destroy(). Devices which take a
long time to quiesce during a target_destroy() could hog the CPU for
relatively long periods of time.
Nevertheless, further study revealed that virtio-scsi itself is broken
in a way that it doesn't increment the 'reqs' counter when submitting
requests on MQ in certain conditions. That caused the counter to go to
-1 (on the completion of the first request) and the CPU to hang
indefinitely.
The following patch fixes the issue:
--- old/linux-4.4.0/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c 2018-06-04
10:23:07.000000000 -0700
+++ new/linux-4.4.0/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c 2018-06-05
10:03:29.083428545 -0700
@@ -641,9 +641,10 @@
scsi_target(sc->device)->hostdata;
struct virtio_scsi_vq *req_vq;
- if (shost_use_blk_mq(sh))
+ if (shost_use_blk_mq(sh)) {
req_vq = virtscsi_pick_vq_mq(vscsi, sc);
- else
+ atomic_inc(&tgt->reqs);
+ } else
req_vq = virtscsi_pick_vq(vscsi, tgt);
return virtscsi_queuecommand(vscsi, req_vq, sc);
Signed-off-by: Felipe Franciosi <[email protected]>
Please consider this a urgent fix as all of our customers which use
Ubuntu 16.04 and have MQ enabled for better performance will be
affected by your latest update. Our workaround is to recommend that
they disable SCSI MQ while you work on the issue.
Best regards,
Felipe
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