On 11/1/2012 11:12 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On 19/10/2012 23:58, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
>> During PCI error recovery, the calls to wait_for_completion() in the
>> infiniband core path can hang waiting for some tasks that will never
>> complete, since the hardware is nonfunctional.
>>
>> INFO: task eehd:16029 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this
>> message.
>> eehd            D 0000000000000000  9664 16029   3093 0x00000080
>> Call Trace:
>> [c0000000af8430e0] [c0000000be05e200] 0xc0000000be05e200 (unreliable)
>> [c0000000af8432b0] [c000000000014070] .__switch_to+0x130/0x250
>> [c0000000af843360] [c000000000777c5c] .__schedule+0x40c/0x920
>> [c0000000af843600] [c000000000775a10] .schedule_timeout+0x210/0x260
>> [c0000000af8436e0] [c000000000777658] .wait_for_common+0xf8/0x210
>> [c0000000af8437c0] [d000000004113538]
>> .ib_unregister_mad_agent+0x498/0x690 [ib_mad]
>> [c0000000af8438c0] [d0000000042c01f4] .ib_sa_remove_one+0xe4/0x180
>> [ib_sa]
>> [c0000000af843970] [d0000000040952e8] .ib_unregister_device+0x78/0x170
>> [ib_core]
>> [c0000000af843a10] [d000000004183290] .mlx4_ib_remove+0x40/0x1f0
>> [mlx4_ib]
>> [c0000000af843ab0] [d000000003f6ab54] .mlx4_remove_device+0xd4/0x110
>> [mlx4_core]
>> [c0000000af843b40] [d000000003f6abfc]
>> .mlx4_unregister_device+0x6c/0xf0 [mlx4_core]
>> [c0000000af843be0] [d000000003f6f19c] .mlx4_remove_one+0x10c/0x3a0
>> [mlx4_core]
>> [c0000000af843c80] [d000000003f6f448] .mlx4_pci_err_detected+0x18/0x40
>> [mlx4_core]
>> [c0000000af843d00] [c000000000058a50] .eeh_report_error+0x70/0xe0
>> [c0000000af843d90] [c0000000003e4d94] .pci_walk_bus+0xa4/0x140
>> [c0000000af843e50] [c000000000058628] .handle_eeh_events+0x1f8/0x480
>> [c0000000af843f00] [c000000000058dfc] .eeh_event_handler+0x13c/0x1e0
>> [c0000000af843f90] [c00000000002031c] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70
>>
>> This patch fixes the issue by replacing the calls to
>> wait_for_completion() by wait_for_completion_timeout(), providing a
>> timeout of 5 seconds to wait for the normal completion of the task.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza<[email protected]>
>> ---
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c        |    2 +-
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c          |    2 +-
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c         |    4 ++--
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c        |    2 +-
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c         |    4 ++--
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/mad_rmpp.c    |    2 +-
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/multicast.c   |    4 ++--
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c    |    2 +-
> 
> for all the above files, your patch makes sense, since the
> completion/refcount logic
> relate to waiting for event that needs to come from the device.

Is this a fix or a workaround for some other underlying issue which
needs fixing ?

What happens when modules are reloaded after this ? Do things still work
? Are resources lost ?

-- Hal

> 
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c         |    2 +-
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c        |    2 +-
> 
> On these files, as far as I understand this code from quick looking, I'm
> not sure on what
> exactly the completion objects protects, Sean?
> 
> Or.
> 
>>   drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c |    4 ++--
> 
> 
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