Re: 4.14: WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 2895 at block/blk-mq.c:1144 with virtio-blk (also 4.12 stable)

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On 01/11/2018 10:13 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 04:47:21PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 12/18/2017 02:56 PM, Stefan Haberland wrote:
>>> On 07.12.2017 00:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 01:25:11PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>> t > commit 11b2025c3326f7096ceb588c3117c7883850c068    -> bad
>>>>>      blk-mq: create a blk_mq_ctx for each possible CPU
>>>>> does not boot on DASD and
>>>>> commit 9c6ae239e01ae9a9f8657f05c55c4372e9fc8bcc    -> good
>>>>>     genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs
>>>>> does boot with DASD disks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also adding Stefan Haberland if he has an idea why this fails on DASD and adding Martin (for the
>>>>> s390 irq handling code).
>>>> That is interesting as it really isn't related to interrupts at all,
>>>> it just ensures that possible CPUs are set in ->cpumask.
>>>>
>>>> I guess we'd really want:
>>>>
>>>> e005655c389e3d25bf3e43f71611ec12f3012de0
>>>> "blk-mq: only select online CPUs in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu"
>>>>
>>>> before this commit, but it seems like the whole stack didn't work for
>>>> your either.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if there is some weird thing about nr_cpu_ids in s390?
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>>>
>>> I tried this on my system and the blk-mq-hotplug-fix branch does not boot for me as well.
>>> The disks get up and running and I/O works fine. At least the partition detection and EXT4-fs mount works.
>>>
>>> But at some point in time the disk do not get any requests.
>>>
>>> I currently have no clue why.
>>> I took a dump and had a look at the disk states and they are fine. No error in the logs or in our debug entrys. Just empty DASD devices waiting to be called for I/O requests.
>>>
>>> Do you have anything I could have a look at?
>>
>> Jens, Christoph, so what do we do about this?
>> To summarize:
>> - commit 4b855ad37194f7 ("blk-mq: Create hctx for each present CPU") broke CPU hotplug.
>> - Jens' quick revert did fix the issue and did not broke DASD support but has some issues
>> with interrupt affinity.
>> - Christoph patch set fixes the hotplug issue for virtio blk but causes I/O hangs on DASDs (even
>> without hotplug).
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This one is a valid use case for VM, I think we need to fix that.
> 
> Looks there is issue on the fouth patch("blk-mq: only select online
> CPUs in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu"), I fixed it in the following tree, and
> the other 3 patches are same with Christoph's:
> 
> 	https://github.com/ming1/linux.git  v4.15-rc-block-for-next-cpuhot-fix
> 
> gitweb:
> 	https://github.com/ming1/linux/commits/v4.15-rc-block-for-next-cpuhot-fix
> 
> Could you test it and provide the feedback?
> 
> BTW, if it can't help this issue, could you boot from a normal disk first
> and dump blk-mq debugfs of DASD later?

That kernel seems to boot fine on my system with DASD disks.




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