[PATCH 0/8] blk-mq: fix wrong queue mapping for kdump kernel

Ming Lei ming.lei at redhat.com
Wed Jul 12 05:54:47 PDT 2023


Hi,

On arm and ppc64, 'maxcpus=1' is required for kdump kernel,
see `Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst`, so num_possible_cpus()
still returns all CPUs because 'maxcpus=1' just bring up one single
cpu core during booting.

blk-mq sees single queue in kdump kernel, and in driver's viewpoint
there are still multiple queues, this inconsistency causes driver to apply
wrong queue mapping for handling IO, and IO timeout is triggered.

This issue is only triggered on managed irq in case of multiple hw
queues. Some drivers takes online cpus into account for nr_hw_queues,
and don't have such issue, such as nvme rdma/tcp.

Meantime, single queue makes much less resource utilization, and reduce
risk of kernel failure.


Thanks,
Ming

Ming Lei (8):
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues()
  nvme-pci: use blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues() to calculate io queues
  scsi: lpfc: use blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues() to calculate io vectors
  scsi: hisi: take blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues() into account for
    calculating io vectors
  scsi: mpi3mr: take blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues() into account for
    calculating io vectors
  scsi: megaraid: take blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues() into account for
    calculating io vectors
  scsi: mpt3sas: take blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues() into account for
    calculating io vectors
  scsi: pm8001: take blk_mq_max_nr_hw_queues() into account for
    calculating io vectors

 block/blk-mq.c                            | 9 +++++++++
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c                   | 2 +-
 drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_v3_hw.c    | 3 +++
 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c             | 1 +
 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 6 +++++-
 drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_fw.c           | 3 +++
 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c       | 4 ++--
 drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c         | 4 +++-
 include/linux/blk-mq.h                    | 1 +
 9 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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