Re: [PATCH] null_blk: don't enable irqs when in irq

[Jens Axboe]

On 12/25/2015 09:03 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/25/2015 07:26 AM, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > When using irq_mode=NULL_IRQ_TIMER, blk_start_queue() is called from the
> > hrtimer interrupt.  null_request_fn() calls spin_unlock_irq() and this
> > causes the following splat from lockdep since interrupts are being
> > enabled while we're in an interrupt handler.
> >
> > When we're in null_request_fn() we can't know the status of the flags
> > saved before blk_start_queue() was called, but we can use in_irq() to
> > conditionally enable interrupts only if we're not in a hard interrupt in
> > order to handle this case.
>
> Using in_irq() to check for this is... nasty. You have two choices here.
> Either you don't enable interrupts ever. That's safe from the
> perspective of the driver, since we don't block in handling the command.
> That means just unconditionally using spin_unlock() in the request_fn.
> Or you punt queue running to process context, by manually clearing the
> queue stopped flag and using blk_run_queue_async() instead.

Something like this should work, can you test it?


--
Jens Axboe

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index c487b94c59e3..33e2f62d5062 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -207,6 +207,22 @@ void blk_delay_queue(struct request_queue *q, unsigned long msecs)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_delay_queue);
 
 /**
+ * blk_start_queue_async - asynchronously restart a previously stopped queue
+ * @q:    The &struct request_queue in question
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *   blk_start_queue_async() will clear the stop flag on the queue, and
+ *   ensure that the request_fn for the queue is run from an async
+ *   context.
+ **/
+void blk_start_queue_async(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+	queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, q);
+	blk_run_queue_async(q);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_start_queue_async);
+
+/**
  * blk_start_queue - restart a previously stopped queue
  * @q:    The &struct request_queue in question
  *
diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.c b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
index a428e4ef71fd..69064e1f70b0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
@@ -232,20 +232,14 @@ static void end_cmd(struct nullb_cmd *cmd)
 		break;
 	case NULL_Q_BIO:
 		bio_endio(cmd->bio);
-		goto free_cmd;
+		break;
 	}
 
-	/* Restart queue if needed, as we are freeing a tag */
-	if (q && !q->mq_ops && blk_queue_stopped(q)) {
-		unsigned long flags;
-
-		spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
-		if (blk_queue_stopped(q))
-			blk_start_queue(q);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
-	}
-free_cmd:
 	free_cmd(cmd);
+
+	/* Restart queue if needed, as we are freeing a tag */
+	if (queue_mode == NULL_Q_RQ && blk_queue_stopped(q))
+		blk_start_queue_async(q);
 }
 
 static enum hrtimer_restart null_cmd_timer_expired(struct hrtimer *timer)
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 0169ba2e2e64..c70e3588a48c 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -797,6 +797,7 @@ extern int sg_scsi_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t,
 extern int blk_queue_enter(struct request_queue *q, gfp_t gfp);
 extern void blk_queue_exit(struct request_queue *q);
 extern void blk_start_queue(struct request_queue *q);
+extern void blk_start_queue_async(struct request_queue *q);
 extern void blk_stop_queue(struct request_queue *q);
 extern void blk_sync_queue(struct request_queue *q);
 extern void __blk_stop_queue(struct request_queue *q);