Re: dm-mq and end_clone_request()

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Laurence Oberman" <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx, "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Johannes Thumshirn"
> <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 11:51:00 AM
> Subject: Re:  dm-mq and end_clone_request()
> 
> On 08/08/2016 05:09 PM, Laurence Oberman wrote:
> > So now back to a 10 LUN dual path (ramdisk backed) two-server
> > configuration I am unable to reproduce the dm issue.
> > Recovery is very fast with the servers connected back to back.
> > This is using your kernel and this multipath.conf
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > Mikes patches have definitely stabilized this issue for me on this
> > configuration.
> > 
> > I will see if I can move to a larger target server that has more
> > memory and allocate more mpath devices. I feel this issue in large
> > configurations is now rooted in multipath not bringing back maps
> > sometimes even when the actual paths are back via srp_daemon.
> > I am still tracking that down.
> > 
> > If you recall, last week I caused some of our own issues by
> > forgetting I had a no_path_retry 12 hiding in my multipath.conf.
> > Since removing that and spending most of the weekend testing on
> > the DDN array (had to give that back today), most of my issues
> > were either the sporadic host delete race or multipath not
> > re-instantiating paths.
> > 
> > I dont know if this helps, but since applying your latest patch I
> > have not seen the host delete race.
> 
> Hello Laurence,
> 
> My latest SCSI core patch adds additional instrumentation to the SCSI
> core but does not change the behavior of the SCSI core. So it cannot
> fix the scsi_forget_host() crash you had reported.
> 
> On my setup, with the kernel code from the srp-initiator-for-next
> branch and with CONFIG_DM_MQ_DEFAULT=n, I still see that when I run the
> srp-test software that fio reports I/O errors every now and then. What
> I see in syslog seems to indicate that these I/O errors are generated
> by dm-mpath:
> 
> Aug  9 08:45:39 ion-dev-ib-ini kernel: mpath 254:1: queue_if_no_path 1 -> 0
> Aug  9 08:45:39 ion-dev-ib-ini kernel: must_push_back: 107 callbacks
> suppressed
> Aug  9 08:45:39 ion-dev-ib-ini kernel: device-mapper: multipath:
> must_push_back: queue_if_no_path=0 suspend_active=1 suspending=0
> Aug  9 08:45:39 ion-dev-ib-ini kernel: __multipath_map(): (a) returning -5
> Aug  9 08:45:39 ion-dev-ib-ini kernel: map_request(): clone_and_map_rq()
> returned -5
> Aug  9 08:45:39 ion-dev-ib-ini kernel: dm_complete_request: error = -5
> Aug  9 08:45:39 ion-dev-ib-ini kernel: dm_softirq_done: dm-1 tio->error = -5
> 
> Bart.
> 
> 
Hello Bart

I was talking about this patch

--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
@@ -1890,10 +1890,11 @@ void scsi_forget_host(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
  restart:
         spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
         list_for_each_entry(sdev, &shost->__devices, siblings) {
-                if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_DEL)
+                if (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_DEL || scsi_device_get(sdev) < 0)
                         continue;
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
                 __scsi_remove_device(sdev);
+                scsi_device_put(sdev);
                 goto restart;
         }
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
-- 

This is the one I applied. that's not just instrumentation right ?

Thanks
Laurence

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