Re: [PATCH] NVMe: do not touch sq door bell if nvmeq has been suspended

From: Keith Busch
Date: Tue Feb 02 2016 - 12:25:15 EST


On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:15:57AM +0000, Wenbo Wang wrote:
> Jens,
>
> I did the following test to validate the issue.
>
> 1. Modify code as below to increase the chance of races.
> Add 10s delay after nvme_dev_unmap() in nvme_dev_disable()
> Add 10s delay before __nvme_submit_cmd()

If running sync IO, preempt is disabled. You can't just put a 10 second
delay there. Wouldn't you hit a "scheduling while atomic" bug instead?

If blk-mq is running the h/w context from its work queue, that might
be a different issue. Maybe we can change the "cancel_delayed_work" to
"cancel_delayed_work_sync" in blk_mq_stop_hw_queues.

If there's still a window where blk-mq can insert a request after the
driver requested to stop queues, I think we should try to close it with
the block layer.