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blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request 

Reserving a tag (request) for flush to avoid dead lock is a overkill. A
tag is valuable resource. We can track the number of flush requests and
disallow having too many pending flush requests allocated. With this
patch, blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned() could do a busy nop (but not a dead
loop) if too many pending requests are allocated and new flush request
is allocated. But this should not be a problem, too many pending flush
requests are very rare case.

I verified this can fix the deadlock caused by too many pending flush
requests.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Shaohua Li 2013-12-31 11:38:50 +08:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent d835502f3d
commit f0276924fa
3 changed files with 38 additions and 19 deletions
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8
block/blk-flush.c
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@ -284,9 +284,8 @@ static void mq_flush_work(struct work_struct *work)
q = container_of(work, struct request_queue, mq_flush_work);
/* We don't need set REQ_FLUSH_SEQ, it's for consistency */
rq = blk_mq_alloc_request(q, WRITE_FLUSH|REQ_FLUSH_SEQ,
__GFP_WAIT|GFP_ATOMIC, true);
__GFP_WAIT|GFP_ATOMIC, false);
rq->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_FS;
rq->end_io = flush_end_io;
@ -408,8 +407,11 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq)
/*
* @policy now records what operations need to be done. Adjust
* REQ_FLUSH and FUA for the driver.
* We keep REQ_FLUSH for mq to track flush requests. For !FUA,
* we never dispatch the request directly.
*/
rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH;
if (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FUA)
rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH;
if (!(fflags & REQ_FUA))
rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FUA;

46
block/blk-mq.c
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@ -194,9 +194,27 @@ static void blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(struct request_queue *q, struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx,
}
static struct request *__blk_mq_alloc_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
gfp_t gfp, bool reserved)
gfp_t gfp, bool reserved,
int rw)
{
return blk_mq_alloc_rq(hctx, gfp, reserved);
struct request *req;
bool is_flush = false;
/*
* flush need allocate a request, leave at least one request for
* non-flush IO to avoid deadlock
*/
if ((rw & REQ_FLUSH) && !(rw & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ)) {
if (atomic_inc_return(&hctx->pending_flush) >=
hctx->queue_depth - hctx->reserved_tags - 1) {
atomic_dec(&hctx->pending_flush);
return NULL;
}
is_flush = true;
}
req = blk_mq_alloc_rq(hctx, gfp, reserved);
if (!req && is_flush)
atomic_dec(&hctx->pending_flush);
return req;
}
static struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned(struct request_queue *q,
@ -209,7 +227,7 @@ static struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned(struct request_queue *q,
struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx = blk_mq_get_ctx(q);
struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, ctx->cpu);
rq = __blk_mq_alloc_request(hctx, gfp & ~__GFP_WAIT, reserved);
rq = __blk_mq_alloc_request(hctx, gfp & ~__GFP_WAIT, reserved, rw);
if (rq) {
blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(q, ctx, rq, rw);
break;
@ -272,6 +290,9 @@ static void __blk_mq_free_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
const int tag = rq->tag;
struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
if ((rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH) && !(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ))
atomic_dec(&hctx->pending_flush);
blk_mq_rq_init(hctx, rq);
blk_mq_put_tag(hctx->tags, tag);
@ -900,14 +921,14 @@ static void blk_mq_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, ctx->cpu);
trace_block_getrq(q, bio, rw);
rq = __blk_mq_alloc_request(hctx, GFP_ATOMIC, false);
rq = __blk_mq_alloc_request(hctx, GFP_ATOMIC, false, bio->bi_rw);
if (likely(rq))
blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(q, ctx, rq, rw);
blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(q, ctx, rq, bio->bi_rw);
else {
blk_mq_put_ctx(ctx);
trace_block_sleeprq(q, bio, rw);
rq = blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned(q, rw, __GFP_WAIT|GFP_ATOMIC,
false);
rq = blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned(q, bio->bi_rw,
__GFP_WAIT|GFP_ATOMIC, false);
ctx = rq->mq_ctx;
hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, ctx->cpu);
}
@ -1184,7 +1205,9 @@ static int blk_mq_init_hw_queues(struct request_queue *q,
hctx->queue_num = i;
hctx->flags = reg->flags;
hctx->queue_depth = reg->queue_depth;
hctx->reserved_tags = reg->reserved_tags;
hctx->cmd_size = reg->cmd_size;
atomic_set(&hctx->pending_flush, 0);
blk_mq_init_cpu_notifier(&hctx->cpu_notifier,
blk_mq_hctx_notify, hctx);
@ -1309,15 +1332,6 @@ struct request_queue *blk_mq_init_queue(struct blk_mq_reg *reg,
reg->queue_depth = BLK_MQ_MAX_DEPTH;
}
/*
* Set aside a tag for flush requests. It will only be used while
* another flush request is in progress but outside the driver.
*
* TODO: only allocate if flushes are supported
*/
reg->queue_depth++;
reg->reserved_tags++;
if (reg->queue_depth < (reg->reserved_tags + BLK_MQ_TAG_MIN))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

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include/linux/blk-mq.h
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@ -36,12 +36,15 @@ struct blk_mq_hw_ctx {
struct list_head page_list;
struct blk_mq_tags *tags;
atomic_t pending_flush;
unsigned long queued;
unsigned long run;
#define BLK_MQ_MAX_DISPATCH_ORDER 10
unsigned long dispatched[BLK_MQ_MAX_DISPATCH_ORDER];
unsigned int queue_depth;
unsigned int reserved_tags;
unsigned int numa_node;
unsigned int cmd_size; /* per-request extra data */