FAILED: patch "[PATCH] block: mq-deadline: Fix queue restart handling" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From cb8acabbe33b110157955a7425ee876fb81e6bbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:40:20 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] block: mq-deadline: Fix queue restart handling

Commit 7211aef86f79 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion handling") added a call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() in dd_dispatch_request() to make sure that write request dispatching does not stall when all target zones are locked. This fix left a subtle race when a write completion happens during a dispatch execution on another CPU:

CPU 0: Dispatch CPU1: write completion

dd_dispatch_request()

    lock(&dd->lock);
    ...
    lock(&dd->zone_lock);	dd_finish_request()
    rq = find request		lock(&dd->zone_lock);
    unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
    				zone write unlock
				unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
				...
				__blk_mq_free_request
                                      check restart flag (not set)
				      -> queue not run
    ...
    if (!rq && have writes)
        blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx()
    unlock(&dd->lock)

Since the dispatch context finishes after the write request completion handling, marking the queue as needing a restart is not seen from __blk_mq_free_request() and blk_mq_sched_restart() not executed leading to the dispatch stall under 100% write workloads.

Fix this by moving the call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() from dd_dispatch_request() into dd_finish_request() under the zone lock to ensure full mutual exclusion between write request dispatch selection and zone unlock on write request completion.

Fixes 7211aef86f79 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion handling")

Cc [email protected]

Reported-by Hans Holmberg <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by Hans Holmberg <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

block/mq-deadline.c +9 -10

index 2a2a2e82832e..35e84bc0ec8c 100644
@@ -377,13 +377,6 @@ static struct request *__dd_dispatch_request(struct deadline_data *dd)
  * hardware queue, but we may return a request that is for a
  * different hardware queue. This is because mq-deadline has shared
  * state for all hardware queues, in terms of sorting, FIFOs, etc.
- *
- * For a zoned block device, __dd_dispatch_request() may return NULL
- * if all the queued write requests are directed at zones that are already
- * locked due to on-going write requests. In this case, make sure to mark
- * the queue as needing a restart to ensure that the queue is run again
- * and the pending writes dispatched once the target zones for the ongoing
- * write requests are unlocked in dd_finish_request().
  */
 static struct request *dd_dispatch_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 {

@@ -392,9 +385,6 @@ static struct request *dd_dispatch_request(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 
 	spin_lock(&dd->lock);
 	rq = __dd_dispatch_request(dd);
-	if (!rq && blk_queue_is_zoned(hctx->queue) &&
-	    !list_empty(&dd->fifo_list[WRITE]))
-		blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(hctx);
 	spin_unlock(&dd->lock);
 
 	return rq;

@@ -561,6 +551,13 @@ static void dd_prepare_request(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio)
  * spinlock so that the zone is never unlocked while deadline_fifo_request()
  * or deadline_next_request() are executing. This function is called for
  * all requests, whether or not these requests complete successfully.
+ *
+ * For a zoned block device, __dd_dispatch_request() may have stopped
+ * dispatching requests if all the queued requests are write requests directed
+ * at zones that are already locked due to on-going write requests. To ensure
+ * write request dispatch progress in this case, mark the queue as needing a
+ * restart to ensure that the queue is run again after completion of the
+ * request and zones being unlocked.
  */
 static void dd_finish_request(struct request *rq)
 {

@@ -572,6 +569,8 @@ static void dd_finish_request(struct request *rq)
 
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&dd->zone_lock, flags);
 		blk_req_zone_write_unlock(rq);
+		if (!list_empty(&dd->fifo_list[WRITE]))
+			blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx(rq->mq_hctx);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dd->zone_lock, flags);
 	}
 }