Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] Avoid that scsi-mq and dm-mq queue processing stalls sporadically

[Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:11:25PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 12:55 +0200, Benjamin Block wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:16:48AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > The six patches in this patch series fix the queue lockup I reported
> > > recently on the linux-block mailing list. Please consider these patches
> > > for inclusion in the upstream kernel.
> >
> > just out of curiosity. Is this maybe related to similar stuff happening
> > when CPUs are hot plugged - at least in that the stack gets stuck? Like
> > in this thread here:
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-block@vger.kernel.org/msg06057.html
> >
> > Would be interesting, because we recently saw similar stuff happening.
>
> Hello Benjamin,
>
> My proposal is to repeat that test with Jens' for-next branch. If the issue
> still occurs with that tree then please check the contents of
> /sys/kernel/debug/block/*/mq/*/{dispatch,*/rq_list}. That will allow to
> determine whether or not any block layer requests are still pending. If
> running the command below resolves the deadlock then it means that a
> trigger to run a block layer queue is still missing somewhere:
>
> for a in /sys/kernel/debug/block/*/mq/state; do echo run >$a;�done
>
> See also git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git.
>

Thx for the hint! I'll forward that and see if the affected folks are
willing to reproduce.


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