blktests failures with v5.19-rc1

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Mon Jun 13 19:23:37 PDT 2022


On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 01:09:07AM +0000, Shinichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> (CC+: linux-pci)
> On Jun 11, 2022 / 16:34, Yi Zhang wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:49 PM Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > And I am not even sure this is real. I don't know yet why this is showing up
> > > only now, but this should fix it:
> > 
> > Hi Keith
> > 
> > Confirmed the WARNING issue was fixed with the change, here is the log:
> 
> Thanks. I also confirmed that Keith's change to add __ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP to
> dev_attr_dev_rescan avoids the fix, on v5.19-rc2.
> 
> I took a closer look into this issue and found The deadlock WARN can be
> recreated with following two commands:
> 
> # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:09.0/rescan
> # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:09.0/remove
> 
> And it can be recreated with PCI devices other than NVME controller, such as
> SCSI controller or VGA controller. Then this is not a storage sub-system issue.
> 
> I checked function call stacks of the two commands above. As shown below, it
> looks like ABBA deadlock possibility is detected and warned.

Yeah, I was mistaken on this report, so my proposal to suppress the warning is
definitely not right. If I run both 'echo' commands in parallel, I see it
deadlock frequently. I'm not familiar enough with this code to any good ideas
on how to fix, but I agree this is a generic pci issue.



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