Re: [PATCH 4/5] dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-baseddm

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Aug 30 2010 - 11:08:18 EST


On 08/30/2010 03:59 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Ah... that's probably from "if (!elv_queue_empty(q))" check below,
> flushes are on a separate queue but I forgot to update
> elv_queue_empty() to check the flush queue. elv_queue_empty() can
> return %true spuriously in which case the queue won't be plugged and
> restarted later leading to queue hang. I'll fix elv_queue_empty().

I think I was too quick to blame elv_queue_empty(). Can you please
test whether the following patch fixes the hang?

Thanks.

---
block/blk-flush.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: block/block/blk-flush.c
===================================================================
--- block.orig/block/blk-flush.c
+++ block/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ unsigned blk_flush_cur_seq(struct reques
}

static struct request *blk_flush_complete_seq(struct request_queue *q,
- unsigned seq, int error)
+ unsigned seq, int error,
+ bool from_end_io)
{
struct request *next_rq = NULL;

@@ -51,6 +52,13 @@ static struct request *blk_flush_complet
if (!list_empty(&q->pending_flushes)) {
next_rq = list_entry_rq(q->pending_flushes.next);
list_move(&next_rq->queuelist, &q->queue_head);
+ /*
+ * Moving a request silently to queue_head may
+ * stall the queue, kick the queue if we
+ * aren't in the issue path already.
+ */
+ if (from_end_io)
+ __blk_run_queue(q);
}
}
return next_rq;
@@ -59,19 +67,19 @@ static struct request *blk_flush_complet
static void pre_flush_end_io(struct request *rq, int error)
{
elv_completed_request(rq->q, rq);
- blk_flush_complete_seq(rq->q, QUEUE_FSEQ_PREFLUSH, error);
+ blk_flush_complete_seq(rq->q, QUEUE_FSEQ_PREFLUSH, error, true);
}

static void flush_data_end_io(struct request *rq, int error)
{
elv_completed_request(rq->q, rq);
- blk_flush_complete_seq(rq->q, QUEUE_FSEQ_DATA, error);
+ blk_flush_complete_seq(rq->q, QUEUE_FSEQ_DATA, error, true);
}

static void post_flush_end_io(struct request *rq, int error)
{
elv_completed_request(rq->q, rq);
- blk_flush_complete_seq(rq->q, QUEUE_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH, error);
+ blk_flush_complete_seq(rq->q, QUEUE_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH, error, true);
}

static void init_flush_request(struct request *rq, struct gendisk *disk)
@@ -165,7 +173,7 @@ struct request *blk_do_flush(struct requ
skip |= QUEUE_FSEQ_DATA;
if (!do_postflush)
skip |= QUEUE_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH;
- return blk_flush_complete_seq(q, skip, 0);
+ return blk_flush_complete_seq(q, skip, 0, false);
}

static void bio_end_flush(struct bio *bio, int err)
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