Re: [usb-storage] [RFC PATCH] usb: storage: uas: limit consecutive device resets in error handling

From: Sergey Senozhatsky

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 04:35:29 EST


On (26/07/02 10:08), Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On 02.07.26 04:25, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>
> > <4>[ 750.651133] rq: tag=0 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13860872 len=524288 age=76536 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 750.651205] rq: tag=1 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13865992 len=524288 age=76536 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 750.651263] rq: tag=2 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13863944 len=524288 age=76536 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 750.651320] rq: tag=3 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13862920 len=524288 age=76536 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 750.651379] rq: tag=4 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13861896 len=524288 age=76536 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 750.651437] rq: tag=5 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13864968 len=524288 age=76536 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
>
> [..]
> > <4>[ 812.091136] rq: tag=0 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13863944 len=524288 age=137976 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 812.091194] rq: tag=1 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13862920 len=524288 age=137976 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 812.091242] rq: tag=2 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13861896 len=524288 age=137976 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 812.091289] rq: tag=3 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13860872 len=524288 age=137976 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 812.091335] rq: tag=4 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13865992 len=524288 age=137976 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
> > <4>[ 812.091381] rq: tag=5 hctx=0 op=WRITE sector=13864968 len=524288 age=137976 ms pid=11900 comm=image_burner state=D
>
> This looks to me like the block layer keeps writing to the same sectors.
> In other words the issue I see is with the block layer.

Oh, this is just our simple blk-mq watchdog. Those are the same 5
stalled requests (WRITES), it's just they got reported twice - same
tags, same sectors, etc. they just got older (age 78k ms -> 137k ms
since submission).

> Do you know what triggers the error handler at the very first timeß

Unfortunately, no.