Re: [PATCH v2] blk-mq: release scheduler resource when request complete

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 13:25:31 EST


On 8/17/23 11:20 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 8/17/23 9:29 AM, Chengming Zhou wrote:
>> On 2023/8/17 22:50, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>> On 8/17/23 07:41, kernel test robot wrote:
>>>> [ 222.622837][ T2216] statistics for priority 1: i 276 m 0 d 276 c 278
>>>> [ 222.629307][ T2216] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2216 at block/mq-deadline.c:680 dd_exit_sched (block/mq-deadline.c:680 (discriminator 3))
>>>
>>> The above information shows that dd_inserted_request() has been called
>>> 276 times and also that dd_finish_request() has been called 278 times.
>>
>> Thanks much for your help.
>>
>> This patch indeed introduced a regression, postflush requests will be completed
>> twice, so here dd_finish_request() is more than dd_inserted_request().
>>
>> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
>> index a8c63bef8ff1..7cd47ffc04ce 100644
>> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
>> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
>> @@ -686,8 +686,10 @@ static void blk_mq_finish_request(struct request *rq)
>> {
>> struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
>>
>> - if (rq->rq_flags & RQF_USE_SCHED)
>> + if (rq->rq_flags & RQF_USE_SCHED) {
>> q->elevator->type->ops.finish_request(rq);
>> + rq->rq_flags &= ~RQF_USE_SCHED;
>> + }
>> }
>>
>>
>> Clear RQF_USE_SCHED flag here should fix this problem, which should be ok
>> since finish_request() is the last callback, this flag isn't needed anymore.
>>
>> Jens, should I send this diff as another patch or resend updated v3?
>
> I don't think this is the right solution, it makes all kinds of
> assumptions on what that flag is and when it's safe to clear it. It's a
> very fragile fix, I think we need to do better than that.

Well maybe this is actually fine, since we're freeing the request now
anyway. I can fold it in the fix, I'll add a comment as well. If this is
subtle enough that it caused this issue, we definitely should have a
comment on why we're clearing this flag.

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Jens Axboe