From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@puri.sm>,
Can Guo <cang@codeaurora.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
kernel@puri.sm
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Fix bug in runtime-resume handling
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:06:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200830010626.GA507988@rowland.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb208ee3-b94b-c020-990f-c7151ecaae03@acm.org>
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 05:38:50PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2020-08-29 11:56, Alan Stern wrote:
> > A third possibility is the approach I outlined before, adding a
> > BLK_MQ_REQ_PM flag. But to avoid the deadlock you pointed out, I would
> > make blk_queue_enter smarter about whether to postpone a request. The
> > logic would go like this:
> >
> > If !blk_queue_pm_only:
> > Allow
> > If !BLK_MQ_REQ_PREEMPT:
> > Postpone
> > If q->rpm_status is RPM_ACTIVE:
> > Allow
> > If !BLK_MQ_REQ_PM:
> > Postpone
> > If q->rpm_status is RPM_SUSPENDED:
> > Postpone
> > Else:
> > Allow
> >
> > The assumption here is that the PREEMPT flag is set whenever the PM flag
> > is.
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Although interesting, these solutions sound like workarounds to me. How
> about fixing the root cause by modifying the SCSI DV implementation such
> that it doesn't use scsi_device_quiesce() anymore()? That change would
> allow to remove BLK_MQ_REQ_PREEMPT / RQF_PREEMPT from the block layer and
> move these flags into the SCSI and IDE code.
That's a perfectly reasonable approach, but I have no idea how to do it.
Any suggestions?
Alan Stern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-30 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-23 11:10 [PATCH] scsi: sd: add runtime pm to open / release Martin Kepplinger
2020-06-24 13:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-25 8:16 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-06-25 14:52 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-26 3:53 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-26 15:07 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-26 15:44 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-28 2:37 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-28 13:10 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-29 9:42 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-06-29 16:15 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-29 16:56 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-29 17:40 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-30 3:33 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-06-30 13:38 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-30 15:59 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-30 18:02 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-30 19:23 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-30 19:38 ` Alan Stern
2020-06-30 23:31 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-07-01 0:49 ` Alan Stern
2020-07-06 16:41 ` Alan Stern
2020-07-28 7:02 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-28 20:02 ` Alan Stern
2020-07-29 14:12 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-29 14:32 ` Alan Stern
2020-07-29 14:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-07-29 14:56 ` Alan Stern
2020-07-29 14:46 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-29 14:53 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-29 15:40 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-29 15:44 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-29 16:43 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-29 18:25 ` Alan Stern
2020-07-29 18:29 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-30 8:52 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-30 8:54 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-30 15:10 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-04 9:39 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-07 9:51 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-07 14:30 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-08 6:59 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-08 15:05 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-09 9:20 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-09 15:26 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-10 12:03 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-10 14:13 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-11 7:55 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-11 13:48 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-23 14:57 ` [PATCH] block: Fix bug in runtime-resume handling Alan Stern
2020-08-24 17:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-08-24 20:13 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-26 7:48 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-27 17:42 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-27 20:29 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-29 7:24 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-29 15:26 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-29 16:33 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-08-29 18:56 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-30 0:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-08-30 1:06 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2020-07-29 15:40 ` [PATCH] scsi: sd: add runtime pm to open / release Alan Stern
2020-07-29 15:49 ` James Bottomley
2020-07-29 16:17 ` Alan Stern
2020-07-29 15:52 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-29 18:10 ` Douglas Gilbert
2020-07-30 8:05 ` Martin Kepplinger
2020-07-30 15:14 ` Alan Stern
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