When nvme_kill_queues() is run, queues may be in quiesced state, so we forcibly unquiesce queues to avoid blocking dispatch, and I/O hang can be avoided in remove path. Peviously we use blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues() as counterpart of blk_mq_quiesce_queue(), now we have introduced blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(), so use it explicitly. Cc: linux-nvme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c index c3f189e54d10..d4e5fc95da4b 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c @@ -2438,6 +2438,9 @@ void nvme_kill_queues(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl) struct nvme_ns *ns; mutex_lock(&ctrl->namespaces_mutex); + + /* Forcibly unquiesce queues to avoid blocking dispatch */ + blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(ctrl->admin_q); list_for_each_entry(ns, &ctrl->namespaces, list) { /* * Revalidating a dead namespace sets capacity to 0. This will @@ -2448,6 +2451,9 @@ void nvme_kill_queues(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl) revalidate_disk(ns->disk); blk_set_queue_dying(ns->queue); + /* Forcibly unquiesce queues to avoid blocking dispatch */ + blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(ns->queue); + /* * Forcibly start all queues to avoid having stuck requests. * Note that we must ensure the queues are not stopped -- 2.9.4