blk-mq: order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED_RESTART
SCHED_RESTART code path is relied to re-run queue for dispatch requests
in hctx->dispatch. Meantime the SCHED_RSTART flag is checked when adding
requests to hctx->dispatch.
memory barriers have to be used for ordering the following two pair of OPs:
1) adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED_RESTART in
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()
2) clearing SCHED_RESTART and checking if there is request in hctx->dispatch
in blk_mq_sched_restart().
Without the added memory barrier, either:
1) blk_mq_sched_restart() may miss requests added to hctx->dispatch meantime
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() observes SCHED_RESTART, and not run queue in
dispatch side
or
2) blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list still sees SCHED_RESTART, and not run queue
in dispatch side, meantime checking if there is request in
hctx->dispatch from blk_mq_sched_restart() is missed.
IO hang in ltp/fs_fill test is reported by kernel test robot:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/26/77
Turns out it is caused by the above out-of-order OPs. And the IO hang
can't be observed any more after applying this patch.
Fixes: bd166ef183c2 ("blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index a19cdf1..d2790e5 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ void blk_mq_sched_restart(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
return;
clear_bit(BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART, &hctx->state);
+ /*
+ * Order clearing SCHED_RESTART and list_empty_careful(&hctx->dispatch)
+ * in blk_mq_run_hw_queue(). Its pair is the barrier in
+ * blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(). So dispatch code won't see SCHED_RESTART,
+ * meantime new request added to hctx->dispatch is missed to check in
+ * blk_mq_run_hw_queue().
+ */
+ smp_mb();
+
blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, true);
}