[PATCH v2 1/1] nvme: Ensure forward progress during Admin passthru

[scott.bauer@intel.com (Scott Bauer)]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018@01:16:32PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018@11:10:07AM -0600, Scott Bauer wrote:
> >  static void nvme_put_subsystem(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys);
> > +static void nvme_remove_invalid_namespaces(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
> > +					   unsigned nsid);
> > +
> > +static void nvme_set_queue_dying(struct nvme_ns *ns)
> > +{
> > +	blk_set_queue_dying(ns->queue);
> > +	/* Forcibly unquiesce queues to avoid blocking dispatch */
> > +	blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(ns->queue);
> > +}
> 
> I think we should actually do everything that the dead namespace does,
> including revalidating the capacity to 0, just in case a buffered writer
> is preventing the removal from completing. Here's an update on top of
> your patch.
> 

>  {
> +	/*
> +	 * Revalidating a dead namespace sets capacity to 0. This will end
> +	 * buffered writers dirtying pages that can't be synced.
> +	 */
> +	if (!ns->disk || test_and_set_bit(NVME_NS_DEAD, &ns->flags))
> +		continue;
> +	revalidate_disk(ns->disk);

I was under the impression we could not do this because the queues are still frozen,
that's why we didnt just issue a scan_work?

revalidate_disk can potentially try and issue more I/O while the queues are
frozen from passthru start.