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Commit cb8acabb authored by Damien Le Moal's avatar Damien Le Moal Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: mq-deadline: Fix queue restart handling

Commit 7211aef8 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion
handling") added a call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() in
dd_dispatch_request() to make sure that write request dispatching does
not stall when all target zones are locked. This fix left a subtle race
when a write completion happens during a dispatch execution on another
CPU:

CPU 0: Dispatch			CPU1: write completion

dd_dispatch_request()
    lock(&dd->lock);
    ...
    lock(&dd->zone_lock);	dd_finish_request()
    rq = find request		lock(&dd->zone_lock);
    unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
    				zone write unlock
				unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
				...
				__blk_mq_free_request
                                      check restart flag (not set)
				      -> queue not run
    ...
    if (!rq && have writes)
        blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx()
    unlock(&dd->lock)

Since the dispatch context finishes after the write request completion
handling, marking the queue as needing a restart is not seen from
__blk_mq_free_request() and blk_mq_sched_restart() not executed leading
to the dispatch stall under 100% write workloads.

Fix this by moving the call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() from
dd_dispatch_request() into dd_finish_request() under the zone lock to
ensure full mutual exclusion between write request dispatch selection
and zone unlock on write request completion.

Fixes: 7211aef8

 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion handling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarHans Holmberg <Hans.Holmberg@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 0feacaa2
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