[PATCH v4] scsi: ufs: Cleanup completed request without interrupt notification

Can Guo cang at codeaurora.org
Fri Jul 31 19:17:08 EDT 2020


Hi Bart,

On 2020-08-01 00:51, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2020-07-31 01:00, Can Guo wrote:
>> AFAIK, sychronization of scsi_done is not a problem here, because scsi
>> layer
>> use the atomic state, namely SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE, of a scsi cmd to 
>> prevent
>> the concurrency of abort and real completion of it.
>> 
>> Check func scsi_times_out(), hope it helps.
>> 
>> enum blk_eh_timer_return scsi_times_out(struct request *req)
>> {
>> ...
>>         if (rtn == BLK_EH_DONE) {
>>                 /*
>>                  * Set the command to complete first in order to 
>> prevent
>> a real
>>                  * completion from releasing the command while error
>> handling
>>                  * is using it. If the command was already completed,
>> then the
>>                  * lower level driver beat the timeout handler, and it
>> is safe
>>                  * to return without escalating error recovery.
>>                  *
>>                  * If timeout handling lost the race to a real
>> completion, the
>>                  * block layer may ignore that due to a fake timeout
>> injection,
>>                  * so return RESET_TIMER to allow error handling 
>> another
>> shot
>>                  * at this command.
>>                  */
>>                 if (test_and_set_bit(SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE, 
>> &scmd->state))
>>                         return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER;
>>                 if (scsi_abort_command(scmd) != SUCCESS) {
>>                         set_host_byte(scmd, DID_TIME_OUT);
>>                         scsi_eh_scmd_add(scmd);
>>                 }
>>         }
>> }
> 
> I am familiar with this mechanism. My concern is that both the regular
> completion path and the abort handler must call scsi_dma_unmap() before
> calling cmd->scsi_done(cmd). I don't see how
> test_and_set_bit(SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE, &scmd->state) could prevent that
> the regular completion path and the abort handler call scsi_dma_unmap()
> concurrently since both calls happen before the SCMD_STATE_COMPLETE bit
> is set?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.

For scsi_dma_unmap() part, that is true - we should make it serialized 
with
any other completion paths. I've found it during my fault injection 
test, so
I've made a patch to fix it, but it only comes in my next error recovery
enhancement patch series. Please check the attachment.

Thanks,

Can Guo.

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