[PATCHv2 1/2] scsi: Move scsi_cmd->jiffies_at_alloc initialization to allocation time

From: Brian King
Date: Mon Aug 21 2017 - 18:40:27 EST


This second version also sets up jiffies_at_alloc in scsi_init_request.
This has been tested without the second patch in the series and
I've confirmed I now see the following in the logs after booting:

[ 121.718088] sd 1:2:0:0: timing out command, waited 120s
[ 121.798081] sd 1:2:1:0: timing out command, waited 120s

Without this patch I was never seeing these messages, indicating
the retry timer code wasn't working. Also, after seeing these
messages, I've confirmed there are no longer any hung tasks
in the kernel with sysrq-w, while before, without this patch,
I would see hung tasks for the scsi_report_opcodes calls which
were getting retried forever.

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Move the initialization of scsi_cmd->jiffies_at_alloc to allocation
time rather than prep time. Also ensure that jiffies_at_alloc
is preserved when we go through prep. This lets us send retries
through prep again and not break the overall retry timer logic
in scsi_softirq_done.

Suggested-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1154,6 +1154,7 @@ void scsi_init_command(struct scsi_devic
void *buf = cmd->sense_buffer;
void *prot = cmd->prot_sdb;
unsigned int unchecked_isa_dma = cmd->flags & SCMD_UNCHECKED_ISA_DMA;
+ unsigned long jiffies_at_alloc = cmd->jiffies_at_alloc;

/* zero out the cmd, except for the embedded scsi_request */
memset((char *)cmd + sizeof(cmd->req), 0,
@@ -1164,7 +1165,7 @@ void scsi_init_command(struct scsi_devic
cmd->prot_sdb = prot;
cmd->flags = unchecked_isa_dma;
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&cmd->abort_work, scmd_eh_abort_handler);
- cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies;
+ cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies_at_alloc;

scsi_add_cmd_to_list(cmd);
}
@@ -2016,6 +2017,7 @@ static int scsi_init_request(struct blk_
if (!cmd->sense_buffer)
return -ENOMEM;
cmd->req.sense = cmd->sense_buffer;
+ cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies;

if (scsi_host_get_prot(shost)) {
sg = (void *)cmd + sizeof(struct scsi_cmnd) +
@@ -2119,6 +2121,7 @@ static int scsi_init_rq(struct request_q
if (!cmd->sense_buffer)
goto fail;
cmd->req.sense = cmd->sense_buffer;
+ cmd->jiffies_at_alloc = jiffies;

if (scsi_host_get_prot(shost) >= SHOST_DIX_TYPE0_PROTECTION) {
cmd->prot_sdb = kmem_cache_zalloc(scsi_sdb_cache, gfp);