Re: [PATCH v1] virtio_blk: fix race between start and stop queue

[Jens Axboe]

On 2014-05-16 09:31, Ming Lei wrote:
> When there isn't enough vring descriptor for adding to vq,
> blk-mq will be put as stopped state until some of pending
> descriptors are completed & freed.
>
> Unfortunately, the vq's interrupt may come just before
> blk-mq's BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED flag is set, so the blk-mq will
> still be kept as stopped even though lots of descriptors
> are completed and freed in the interrupt handler. The worst
> case is that all pending descriptors are freed in the
> interrupt handler, and the queue is kept as stopped forever.
>
> This patch fixes the problem by starting/stopping blk-mq
> with holding vq_lock.

Thanks, this looks good, I'll apply it for 3.16 (with a stable marker, 
even if it is an unlikely event).

--
Jens Axboe

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