On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:44:13PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This commit introduced a rcu_read_lock() inside
> blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter() - this is problematic for the timout code,
> since we now end up holding the RCU read lock over the timeout code. As
> just one example, nvme ends up doing:
>
> nvme_timeout()
> nvme_dev_disable()
> mutex_lock(&dev->shutdown_lock);
>
> and things are then obviously unhappy...
Yah, there's never been a requirement that tag iterator callbacks be
non-blocking as far as I remember.
The queue's reference in blk_mq_timeout_work looks applicable to any
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter user, so just moving it there looks like it
should do what f5bbbbe4d635 was trying to fix.
---
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-tag.c b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
index 94e1ed667b6e..850577a3de6d 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-tag.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
@@ -320,18 +320,21 @@ void blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(struct request_queue *q,
busy_iter_fn *fn,
struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
int i;
- /*
- * __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues will update the nr_hw_queues and
- * queue_hw_ctx after freeze the queue. So we could use q_usage_counter
- * to avoid race with it. __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues will users
- * synchronize_rcu to ensure all of the users go out of the critical
- * section below and see zeroed q_usage_counter.
+ /* A deadlock might occur if a request is stuck requiring a
+ * timeout at the same time a queue freeze is waiting
+ * completion, since the timeout code would not be able to
+ * acquire the queue reference here.
+ *
+ * That's why we don't use blk_queue_enter here; instead, we use
+ * percpu_ref_tryget directly, because we need to be able to
+ * obtain a reference even in the short window between the queue
+ * starting to freeze, by dropping the first reference in
+ * blk_freeze_queue_start, and the moment the last request is
+ * consumed, marked by the instant q_usage_counter reaches
+ * zero.
*/
- rcu_read_lock();
- if (percpu_ref_is_zero(&q->q_usage_counter)) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter))
return;
- }
queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
struct blk_mq_tags *tags = hctx->tags;
@@ -347,7 +350,7 @@ void blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(struct request_queue *q,
busy_iter_fn *fn,
bt_for_each(hctx, &tags->breserved_tags, fn, priv,
true);
bt_for_each(hctx, &tags->bitmap_tags, fn, priv, false);
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ blk_queue_exit(q);
}
static int bt_alloc(struct sbitmap_queue *bt, unsigned int depth,
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 85a1c1a59c72..28d128450621 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -848,22 +848,6 @@ static void blk_mq_timeout_work(struct work_struct *work)
struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
int i;
- /* A deadlock might occur if a request is stuck requiring a
- * timeout at the same time a queue freeze is waiting
- * completion, since the timeout code would not be able to
- * acquire the queue reference here.
- *
- * That's why we don't use blk_queue_enter here; instead, we use
- * percpu_ref_tryget directly, because we need to be able to
- * obtain a reference even in the short window between the queue
- * starting to freeze, by dropping the first reference in
- * blk_freeze_queue_start, and the moment the last request is
- * consumed, marked by the instant q_usage_counter reaches
- * zero.
- */
- if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter))
- return;
-
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(q, blk_mq_check_expired, &next);
if (next != 0) {
@@ -881,7 +865,6 @@ static void blk_mq_timeout_work(struct work_struct *work)
blk_mq_tag_idle(hctx);
}
}
- blk_queue_exit(q);
}
struct flush_busy_ctx_data {
@@ -2974,10 +2957,7 @@ static void __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues(struct
blk_mq_tag_set *set,
list_for_each_entry(q, &set->tag_list, tag_set_list)
blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
- /*
- * Sync with blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter.
- */
- synchronize_rcu();
+
/*
* Switch IO scheduler to 'none', cleaning up the data associated
* with the previous scheduler. We will switch back once we are done
--
