nvmf host shutdown hangs when nvmf controllers are in recovery/reconnect

[swise@opengridcomputing.com (Steve Wise)]

> > > > Hey Steve,
> > > >
> > > > For some reason I can't reproduce this on my setup...
> > > >
> > > > So I'm wandering where is nvme_rdma_del_ctrl() thread stuck?
> > > > Probably a dump of all the kworkers would be helpful here:
> > > >
> > > > $ pids=`ps -ef | grep kworker | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'}`
> > > > $ for p in $pids; do echo "$p:" ;cat /proc/$p/stack; done
> > > >
> >
> > I can't do this because the system is crippled due to shutting down.  I
> > get the feeling though that the del_ctrl thread isn't getting scheduled.
> > Note that the difference between 'reboot' and 'reboot -f' is that
> without
> > the -f, iw_cxgb4 isn't unloaded before we get stuck.  So there has to be
> > some part of 'reboot' that deletes the controllers for it to work.  But
> I
> > still don't know what is stalling the reboot anyway.  Some I/O pending I
> > guess?
> 
> According to the hung task detector, this is the only thread stuck:
> 
> [  861.638248] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables
> this message.
> [  861.647826] vgs             D ffff880ff6e5b8e8     0  4849   4848
> 0x10000080
> [  861.656702]  ffff880ff6e5b8e8 ffff8810381a15c0 ffff88103343ab80
> ffff8810283a6f10
> [  861.665829]  00000001e0941240 ffff880ff6e5b8b8 ffff880ff6e58008
> ffff88103f059300
> [  861.674882]  7fffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> ffff880ff6e5b938
> [  861.683819] Call Trace:
> [  861.687677]  [<ffffffff816ddde0>] schedule+0x40/0xb0
> [  861.694078]  [<ffffffff816e0a8d>] schedule_timeout+0x2ad/0x410
> [  861.701279]  [<ffffffff8132d6d2>] ? blk_flush_plug_list+0x132/0x2e0
> [  861.708924]  [<ffffffff810fe67c>] ? ktime_get+0x4c/0xc0
> [  861.715452]  [<ffffffff8132c92c>] ? generic_make_request+0xfc/0x1d0
> [  861.723060]  [<ffffffff816dd6c4>] io_schedule_timeout+0xa4/0x110
> [  861.730319]  [<ffffffff81269cb9>] dio_await_one+0x99/0xe0
> [  861.736951]  [<ffffffff8126d359>] do_blockdev_direct_IO+0x919/0xc00
> [  861.744402]  [<ffffffff81267350>] ? I_BDEV+0x20/0x20
> [  861.750569]  [<ffffffff81267350>] ? I_BDEV+0x20/0x20
> [  861.756677]  [<ffffffff8115527b>] ? rb_reserve_next_event+0xdb/0x230
> [  861.764155]  [<ffffffff811547ba>] ? rb_commit+0x10a/0x1a0
> [  861.770642]  [<ffffffff8126d67a>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x3a/0x40
> [  861.777729]  [<ffffffff81267b83>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x43/0x50
> [  861.784439]  [<ffffffff81199ef7>] generic_file_read_iter+0xf7/0x110
> [  861.791727]  [<ffffffff81267657>] blkdev_read_iter+0x37/0x40
> [  861.798404]  [<ffffffff8122b15c>] __vfs_read+0xfc/0x120
> [  861.804624]  [<ffffffff8122b22e>] vfs_read+0xae/0xf0
> [  861.810544]  [<ffffffff81249633>] ? __fdget+0x13/0x20
> [  861.816539]  [<ffffffff8122bd36>] SyS_read+0x56/0xc0
> [  861.822437]  [<ffffffff81003e7d>] do_syscall_64+0x7d/0x230
> [  861.828863]  [<ffffffff8106f057>] ? do_page_fault+0x37/0x90
> [  861.835313]  [<ffffffff816e1921>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
> 
> 

vgs is part of a rhel6 service that is started to monitor volume groups.  I
force stopped it and then did my reboot experiment and it worked fine.  So for
some reason the vgs program is reading the nvmf devices, and gets stuck when the
target goes away.  And I guess stopping this service is part of reboot so it got
stuck too.  The service is named lvm2-monitor.  So I did this:

service lvm2-monitor force-stop

Perhaps that is why you couldn't reproduce it? :)  So with lvm2-monitor stopped,
then the reboot eventually removes iw_cxgb4 which triggers the device removal
code in nvme_rdma and that is how the controllers get deleted.  So the question
in my mind is: Should nvme-rdma have some sort of shutdown handler to delete the
controllers?