v4.16-rc2 nvme_rdma ib_destroy_qp() warns about MRs

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Sun Feb 25 10:06:15 PST 2018



On 02/25/2018 08:02 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
> 
> Hi Bart,
> 
>> With the v4.16-rc2 nvme_rdma driver on top of the rdma_rxe driver the
>> following kernel warning appeared in the kernel log:
>>
>> CPU: 3 PID: 152 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc2-dbg+ #3
>> Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_rdma_error_recovery_work [nvme_rdma]
>> RIP: 0010:ib_destroy_qp+0x177/0x1a0 [ib_core]
>> Call Trace:
>>   nvme_rdma_destroy_queue_ib+0x32/0x70 [nvme_rdma]
>>   nvme_rdma_free_queue+0x2e/0x90 [nvme_rdma]
>>   nvme_rdma_destroy_io_queues+0x5d/0xb0 [nvme_rdma]
>>   nvme_rdma_error_recovery_work+0x4c/0xb0 [nvme_rdma]
>>   process_one_work+0x20b/0x6a0
>>   worker_thread+0x35/0x380
>>   kthread+0x117/0x130
>>   ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30
> 
> Thanks for reporting.
> 
>> Does this mean that the nvme_rdma driver calls ib_destroy_qp() before 
>> all MRs
>> associated with the QP have been destroyed?
> 
> That's the warning... But I'm having troubles understanding how can this
> be a nvme-rdma issue. We only allocate in .queue_rq if we passed which
> means that the queue has READY on, and before we destroy the qp only
> after we:
> 1. quiesced all the request queues
> 2. cancel all started requests (which trigger nvme_rdma_complete_request
> that returns the mr to the pool)
> 
> So the only way I see that we can get here, is if
> blk_mq_complete_request does not call __blk_mq_complete_request.
> 
> This can happen when:
> -- 
>          /*
>           * If @rq->aborted_gstate equals the current instance, timeout is
>           * claiming @rq and we lost.  This is synchronized through
>           * hctx_lock().  See blk_mq_timeout_work() for details.
>           *
>           * Completion path never blocks and we can directly use RCU here
>           * instead of hctx_lock() which can be either RCU or SRCU.
>           * However, that would complicate paths which want to synchronize
>           * against us.  Let stay in sync with the issue path so that
>           * hctx_lock() covers both issue and completion paths.
>           */
>          hctx_lock(hctx, &srcu_idx);
>          if (blk_mq_rq_aborted_gstate(rq) != rq->gstate)
>                  __blk_mq_complete_request(rq);
>          hctx_unlock(hctx, srcu_idx);
> -- 
> 
> Does this mean that the block driver must not assume that .complete will
> be called on a timed out request for sure?
> 
> Is this easy to reproduce Bart? Does this patch help?
> -- 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
> index 2ef761b5a26e..ffc9362a3a82 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
> @@ -1585,6 +1585,11 @@ nvme_rdma_timeout(struct request *rq, bool reserved)
>                   "I/O %d QID %d timeout, reset controller\n",
>                   rq->tag, nvme_rdma_queue_idx(req->queue));
> 
> +       if (req->mr) {
> +               ib_mr_pool_put(queue->qp, &queue->qp->rdma_mrs, req->mr);
> +               req->mr = NULL;
> +       }
> +
>          /* queue error recovery */
>          nvme_rdma_error_recovery(req->queue->ctrl);
> -- 

Now with a patch that actually compiles :)
--
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
index 2ef761b5a26e..4c32518a6c81 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
@@ -1585,6 +1585,11 @@ nvme_rdma_timeout(struct request *rq, bool reserved)
                  "I/O %d QID %d timeout, reset controller\n",
                  rq->tag, nvme_rdma_queue_idx(req->queue));

+       if (req->mr) {
+               ib_mr_pool_put(req->queue->qp, 
&req->queue->qp->rdma_mrs, req->mr);
+               req->mr = NULL;
+       }
+
         /* queue error recovery */
         nvme_rdma_error_recovery(req->queue->ctrl);
--



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