[PATCH V4 0/7] nvme: pci: fix & improve timeout handling

[ming.lei@redhat.com (Ming Lei)]

On Wed, May 09, 2018@01:46:09PM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote:
> Hi ming
> 
> I did some tests on my local.
> 
> [  598.828578] nvme nvme0: I/O 51 QID 4 timeout, disable controller
> 
> This should be a timeout on nvme_reset_dev->nvme_wait_freeze.
> 
> [  598.828743] nvme nvme0: EH 1: before shutdown
> [  599.013586] nvme nvme0: EH 1: after shutdown
> [  599.137197] nvme nvme0: EH 1: after recovery
> 
> The EH 1 have mark the state to LIVE
> 
> [  599.137241] nvme nvme0: failed to mark controller state 1
> 
> So the EH 0 failed to mark state to LIVE
> The card was removed.
> This should not be expected by nested EH.

Right.

> 
> [  599.137322] nvme nvme0: Removing after probe failure status: 0
> [  599.326539] nvme nvme0: EH 0: after recovery
> [  599.326760] nvme0n1: detected capacity change from 128035676160 to 0
> [  599.457208] nvme nvme0: failed to set APST feature (-19)
> 
> nvme_reset_dev should identify whether it is nested.

The above should be caused by race between updating controller state,
hope I can find some time in this week to investigate it further.

Also maybe we can change to remove controller until nested EH has
been tried enough times.

Thanks,
Ming