[PATCH 1/2] nvme: fix race between removing and reseting failure

[yizhan]

On 05/20/2017 12:40 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 08:41:13AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 05/16/2017 07:27 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
>>> When one NVMe PCI device is being resetted and found reset failue,
>>> nvme_remove_dead_ctrl() is called to handle the failure: blk-mq hw queues
>>> are put into stopped first, then schedule .remove_work to release the driver.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately if the driver is being released via sysfs store
>>> just before the .remove_work is run, del_gendisk() from
>>> nvme_remove() may hang forever because hw queues are stopped and
>>> the submitted writeback IOs from fsync_bdev() can't be completed at all.
>>>
>>> This patch fixes the following issue[1][2] by moving nvme_kill_queues()
>>> into nvme_remove_dead_ctrl() to avoid the issue because nvme_remove()
>>> flushs .reset_work, and this way is reasonable and safe because
>>> nvme_dev_disable() has started to suspend queues and canceled requests
>>> already.
>>>
>>> [1] test script
>>> 	fio -filename=$NVME_DISK -iodepth=1 -thread -rw=randwrite -ioengine=psync \
>>> 	    -bssplit=5k/10:9k/10:13k/10:17k/10:21k/10:25k/10:29k/10:33k/10:37k/10:41k/10 \
>>> 	    -bs_unaligned -runtime=1200 -size=-group_reporting -name=mytest -numjobs=60
>>>
>>> 	sleep 35
>>> 	echo 1 > $SYSFS_NVME_PCI_PATH/rescan
>>> 	echo 1 > $SYSFS_NVME_PCI_PATH/reset
>>> 	echo 1 > $SYSFS_NVME_PCI_PATH/remove
>>> 	echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
>> The patch looks good to me. But since you have a nice reproducer, how about
>> turning that into a blktests [1] test case?
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/osandov/blktests
> Forget to mention, this test case is written by Zhang Yi.
>
> Zhang Yi, maybe you can try to integrate your NVMe test case into
> blktests if you are interested, :-)
Sure, I will have a try. :)

Thanks
Yi
> Thanks,
> Ming
>
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