Re: Oops when completing request on the wrong queue

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 08/24/2016 12:34 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 08/23/2016 03:14 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 08/23/2016 03:11 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 08/23/2016 02:54 PM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>>>> Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> Can you share what you ran to online/offline CPUs? I can't reproduce
>>>>>> this here.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was using the ppc64_cpu tool, which shouldn't do nothing more than
>>>>> write to sysfs.  but I just reproduced it with the script below.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that this is ppc64le.  I don't have a x86 in hand to attempt to
>>>>> reproduce right now, but I'll look for one and see how it goes.
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Any luck on reproducing it?  We were initially reproducing with a
>>>> proprietary stress test, but I gave a try to a generated fio jobfile
>>>> associated with the SMT script I shared earlier and I could reproduce
>>>> the crash consistently in less than 10 minutes of execution.  this was
>>>> still ppc64le, though.  I couldn't get my hands on nvme on x86 yet.
>>>
>>> Nope, I have not been able to reproduce it. How long does the CPU
>>> offline/online actions take on ppc64? It's pretty slow on x86, which may
>>> hide the issue. I took out the various printk's associated with bringing
>>> a CPU off/online, as well as IRQ breaking parts, but didn't help in
>>> reproducing it.
>>>
>>>> The job file I used, as well as the smt.sh script, in case you want to
>>>> give it a try:
>>>>
>>>> jobfile: http://krisman.be/k/nvmejob.fio
>>>> smt.sh:  http://krisman.be/k/smt.sh
>>>>
>>>> Still, the trigger seems to be consistently a heavy load of IO
>>>> associated with CPU addition/removal.
>>>
>>> My workload looks similar to yours, in that it's high depth and with a
>>> lot of jobs to keep most CPUs loaded. My bash script is different than
>>> yours, I'll try that and see if it helps here.
>>
>> Actually, I take that back. You're not using O_DIRECT, hence all your
>> jobs are running at QD=1, not the 256 specified. That looks odd, but
>> I'll try, maybe it'll hit something different.
>
> Can you try this patch? It's not perfect, but I'll be interested if it
> makes a difference for you.

This one should handle the WARN_ON() for running the hw queue on the
wrong CPU as well.


diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 758a9b5..b21a9b9 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -810,11 +810,12 @@ static void __blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct 
blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
  	struct list_head *dptr;
  	int queued;

-	WARN_ON(!cpumask_test_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), hctx->cpumask));
-
  	if (unlikely(test_bit(BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED, &hctx->state)))
  		return;

+	WARN_ON(!cpumask_test_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), hctx->cpumask) &&
+		cpu_online(hctx->next_cpu));
+
  	hctx->run++;

  	/*
@@ -1075,15 +1082,11 @@ static void __blk_mq_insert_request(struct 
blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
  }

  void blk_mq_insert_request(struct request *rq, bool at_head, bool 
run_queue,
-		bool async)
+			   bool async)
  {
+	struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx = rq->mq_ctx;
  	struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
  	struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
-	struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx = rq->mq_ctx, *current_ctx;
-
-	current_ctx = blk_mq_get_ctx(q);
-	if (!cpu_online(ctx->cpu))
-		rq->mq_ctx = ctx = current_ctx;

  	hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, ctx->cpu);

@@ -1093,8 +1096,6 @@ void blk_mq_insert_request(struct request *rq, 
bool at_head, bool run_queue,

  	if (run_queue)
  		blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, async);
-
-	blk_mq_put_ctx(current_ctx);
  }

  static void blk_mq_insert_requests(struct request_queue *q,
@@ -1105,14 +1106,9 @@ static void blk_mq_insert_requests(struct 
request_queue *q,

  {
  	struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
-	struct blk_mq_ctx *current_ctx;

  	trace_block_unplug(q, depth, !from_schedule);

-	current_ctx = blk_mq_get_ctx(q);
-
-	if (!cpu_online(ctx->cpu))
-		ctx = current_ctx;
  	hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, ctx->cpu);

  	/*
@@ -1125,14 +1121,12 @@ static void blk_mq_insert_requests(struct 
request_queue *q,

  		rq = list_first_entry(list, struct request, queuelist);
  		list_del_init(&rq->queuelist);
-		rq->mq_ctx = ctx;
  		__blk_mq_insert_req_list(hctx, ctx, rq, false);
  	}
  	blk_mq_hctx_mark_pending(hctx, ctx);
  	spin_unlock(&ctx->lock);

  	blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, from_schedule);
-	blk_mq_put_ctx(current_ctx);
  }

  static int plug_ctx_cmp(void *priv, struct list_head *a, struct 
list_head *b)
@@ -1692,6 +1686,11 @@ static int blk_mq_hctx_cpu_offline(struct 
blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, int cpu)
  	while (!list_empty(&tmp)) {
  		struct request *rq;

+		/*
+		 * FIXME: we can't just move the req here. We'd have to
+		 * pull off the bio chain and add it to a new request
+		 * on the target hw queue
+		 */
  		rq = list_first_entry(&tmp, struct request, queuelist);
  		rq->mq_ctx = ctx;
  		list_move_tail(&rq->queuelist, &ctx->rq_list);


-- 
Jens Axboe