Re: [PATCH V2]nvme-pci: Fixes EEH failure on ppc

[Keith Busch]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:09:38PM -0600, wenxiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> @@ -1189,6 +1183,12 @@ static enum blk_eh_timer_return nvme_timeout(struct request *req, bool reserved)
>  	struct nvme_command cmd;
>  	u32 csts = readl(dev->bar + NVME_REG_CSTS);
>  
> +	/* If PCI error recovery process is happening, we cannot reset or
> +	 * the recovery mechanism will surely fail.
> +	 */
> +	if (pci_channel_offline(to_pci_dev(dev->dev)))
> +		return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER;

So reading csts is what triggers EEH to be detected and get the channel
set offline? If so, don't we need a memory barrier before calling
pci_channel_offline? Otherwise it looks like the compiler optimization
could reorder these.