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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2017-02-17 21:40:44 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2017-02-17 22:35:47 +0300
commit7520872c0cf4d3df6d74242c6edfb9e70a47df4d (patch)
treee33287e1a152ee6d2f2b47f1eb3df0a6c66ae955 /block
parent64765a75ef258c802f795558d00a5a1864c531fc (diff)
downloadlinux-7520872c0cf4d3df6d74242c6edfb9e70a47df4d.tar.xz
block: don't defer flushes on blk-mq + scheduling
For blk-mq with scheduling, we can potentially end up with ALL driver tags assigned and sitting on the flush queues. If we defer because of an inlfight data request, then we can deadlock if that data request doesn't already have a tag assigned. This fixes a deadlock with running the xfs/297 xfstest, where thousands of syncs can cause the drive queue to stall. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-flush.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 968162579234..0d5a9c1da1fc 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -297,8 +297,14 @@ static bool blk_kick_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct blk_flush_queue *fq)
if (fq->flush_pending_idx != fq->flush_running_idx || list_empty(pending))
return false;
- /* C2 and C3 */
+ /* C2 and C3
+ *
+ * For blk-mq + scheduling, we can risk having all driver tags
+ * assigned to empty flushes, and we deadlock if we are expecting
+ * other requests to make progress. Don't defer for that case.
+ */
if (!list_empty(&fq->flush_data_in_flight) &&
+ !(q->mq_ops && q->elevator) &&
time_before(jiffies,
fq->flush_pending_since + FLUSH_PENDING_TIMEOUT))
return false;