On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:03:16PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> On 05/25/2012 02:52 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:34:48AM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> >>blk_cleanup_queue() will call blk_drian_queue() to drain all the
> >>requests before queue DEAD marking. If we reset the device before
> >>blk_cleanup_queue() the drain would fail.
> >>
> >>1) if the queue is stopped in do_virtblk_request() because device is
> >>full, the q->request_fn() will not be called.
> >>
> >>blk_drain_queue() {
> >>    while(true) {
> >>       ...
> >>       if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head))
> >>         __blk_run_queue(q) {
> >>        if (queue is not stoped)
> >>            q->request_fn()
> >>    }
> >>       ...
> >>    }
> >>}
> >>
> >>Do no reset the device before blk_cleanup_queue() gives the chance to
> >>start the queue in interrupt handler blk_done().
> >>
> >>2) In commit b79d866c8b7014a51f611a64c40546109beaf24a, We abort requests
> >>dispatched to driver before blk_cleanup_queue(). There is a race if
> >>requests are dispatched to driver after the abort and before the queue
> >>DEAD mark. To fix this, instead of aborting the requests explicitly, we
> >>can just reset the device after after blk_cleanup_queue so that the
> >>device can complete all the requests before queue DEAD marking in the
> >>drain process.
> >>
> >>Cc: Rusty Russell<[email protected]>
> >>Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"<[email protected]>
> >>Cc: [email protected]
> >>Cc: [email protected]
> >>Signed-off-by: Asias He<[email protected]>
> >>---
> >>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   12 +-----------
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> >>index 1bed517..b4fa2d7 100644
> >>--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> >>+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> >>@@ -576,8 +576,6 @@ static void __devexit virtblk_remove(struct 
> >>virtio_device *vdev)
> >>  {
> >>    struct virtio_blk *vblk = vdev->priv;
> >>    int index = vblk->index;
> >>-   struct virtblk_req *vbr;
> >>-   unsigned long flags;
> >>
> >>    /* Prevent config work handler from accessing the device. */
> >>    mutex_lock(&vblk->config_lock);
> >>@@ -585,21 +583,13 @@ static void __devexit virtblk_remove(struct 
> >>virtio_device *vdev)
> >>    mutex_unlock(&vblk->config_lock);
> >>
> >>    del_gendisk(vblk->disk);
> >>+   blk_cleanup_queue(vblk->disk->queue);
> >
> >Device is not reset here yet, so it will process
> >some requests in parallel with blk_cleanup_queue.
> >Is this a problem? Why not?
> 
> No. This is not a problem. Actually, blk_cleanup_queue assumes the
> device can process the requests before queue DEAD marking. Otherwise
> the drain in the blk_cleanup_queue would never success.

I see, thanks for the clarification.

> >
> >>
> >>    /* Stop all the virtqueues. */
> >>    vdev->config->reset(vdev);
> >>
> >>    flush_work(&vblk->config_work);
> >>
> >>-   /* Abort requests dispatched to driver. */
> >>-   spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->lock, flags);
> >>-   while ((vbr = virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(vblk->vq))) {
> >>-           __blk_end_request_all(vbr->req, -EIO);
> >>-           mempool_free(vbr, vblk->pool);
> >>-   }
> >>-   spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->lock, flags);
> >>-
> >>-   blk_cleanup_queue(vblk->disk->queue);
> >>    put_disk(vblk->disk);
> >>    mempool_destroy(vblk->pool);
> >>    vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
> >>--
> >>1.7.10.2
> 
> 
> -- 
> Asias
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