Re: [REGRESSION 3.17] scsi (uas) disks no longer using tagged command queuing

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 09 2014 - 11:27:37 EST


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:15:24AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Taking the uas.c file from 3.17, and building it for 3.16 restores
> the use of tcq (debugged by adding a printk blk_rq_tagged + request->tag).
>
> So either uas is doing something wrong which happened to work in
> 3.16, or something has broken in 3.17.
>
> I've already added debug printk-s of scsi_device->tagged_supported,
> queue_depth, ordered_tags and simple_tags and those all look good
> (1, 29, 1, 1).
>
> I've also tried setting disable_blk_mq and that does not help.
>
> Any hints to help debugging this further (other then a bisect) are
> appreciated. If no-one has any smart ideas I guess I'll end up doing
> a full bisect.

scsi-mq isn't enabled by default, so setting disable_blk_mq should
indeed not make a difference.

One interesting thing with uas is that it uses scsi_init_shared_tag_map,
which only few drivers do.

Can you apply a debug patch like the one below and see if that helps to
poinpoint down the issue?

diff --git a/block/blk-tag.c b/block/blk-tag.c
index a185b86..584db25 100644
--- a/block/blk-tag.c
+++ b/block/blk-tag.c
@@ -175,8 +175,10 @@ int blk_queue_init_tags(struct request_queue *q, int depth,
return rc;
queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED, q);
return 0;
- } else
+ } else {
+ printk("%s: grabbing reference to shared tag structure!\n", __func__);
atomic_inc(&tags->refcnt);
+ }

/*
* assign it, all done
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h b/include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h
index cdcc90b..7f3b5cb 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h
@@ -164,8 +164,13 @@ static inline int scsi_init_shared_tag_map(struct Scsi_Host *shost, int depth)
*/
if (!shost->bqt) {
shost->bqt = blk_init_tags(depth);
- if (!shost->bqt)
+ if (!shost->bqt) {
+ printk("failed to init host-wide tag map!\n");
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ printk("initialized host-wide tag map!\n");
+ } else {
+ printk("host-wide tag map already set!\n");
}

return 0;
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