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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: "jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	josef@toxicpanda.com, ulf.hansson@linaro.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5]stop normal completion path entering a timeout req
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:01:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180621150143.GA26712@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df1633e8-7df4-976b-a7d5-77679c92843a@oracle.com>

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:13:30PM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote:
> Hi Christoph
> 
> On 06/21/2018 04:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 09:43:26AM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote:
> >> So we have to preserve the ability of block layer that it could prevent
> >> IO completion path from entering a timeout request.
> >>
> >> With scsi-debug module, I tried to simulate a scenario where timeout and IO
> >> completion path could occur concurrently, the system ran into crash easily.
> > 
> > Trace, please.  With the latest kernel.  I'm not saying that there
> > is nothing to fix, but the mode of never completing once timeout
> > requests as currently done is SCSI is clearly broken.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I don't quite get your point.
> Do you mean we should do the modification in the scsi layer ?

I think it would just be helpful to start with the stack trace of your
observed crash + the reproduction steps so the problem (and hopefully
a solution) can be better understood.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-21 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-20 13:22 [PATCH 0/5]stop normal completion path entering a timeout req Jianchao Wang
2018-06-20 13:22 ` [PATCH 1/5] blk-mq: prevent normal completion from entering a timeout request Jianchao Wang
2018-06-20 13:22 ` [PATCH 2/5] nbd: use __blk_mq_complete_request in timeout path Jianchao Wang
2018-06-20 14:13   ` Josef Bacik
2018-06-20 13:22 ` [PATCH 3/5] null_blk: " Jianchao Wang
2018-06-20 13:22 ` [PATCH 4/5] mmc: " Jianchao Wang
2018-06-20 13:22 ` [PATCH 5/5] nvme: " Jianchao Wang
2018-06-20 14:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21  2:09     ` jianchao.wang
2018-06-24 18:07       ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-06-25  1:40         ` jianchao.wang
2018-06-25 18:51           ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-06-20 18:16 ` [PATCH 0/5]stop normal completion path entering a timeout req Keith Busch
2018-06-21  1:43   ` jianchao.wang
2018-06-21  8:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-21  8:22       ` jianchao.wang
2018-06-22 15:10         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-25  1:29           ` jianchao.wang
2018-06-21 13:13       ` jianchao.wang
2018-06-21 15:01         ` Keith Busch [this message]
2018-06-21 18:21       ` Bart Van Assche
2018-06-21 21:15         ` Keith Busch
2018-06-21 21:30           ` Bart Van Assche

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