Hi Keith On 09/25/2018 05:09 AM, Keith Busch wrote: > - /* A deadlock might occur if a request is stuck requiring a > - * timeout at the same time a queue freeze is waiting > - * completion, since the timeout code would not be able to > - * acquire the queue reference here. > - * > - * That's why we don't use blk_queue_enter here; instead, we use > - * percpu_ref_tryget directly, because we need to be able to > - * obtain a reference even in the short window between the queue > - * starting to freeze, by dropping the first reference in > - * blk_freeze_queue_start, and the moment the last request is > - * consumed, marked by the instant q_usage_counter reaches > - * zero. > - */ > - if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter)) > + if (!blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(q, blk_mq_check_expired, &next)) > return; We cannot discard the percpu_ref_tryget here. There following code in blk_mq_timeout_work still need it: if (next != 0) { mod_timer(&q->timeout, next); } else { queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) { /* the hctx may be unmapped, so check it here */ if (blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped(hctx)) blk_mq_tag_idle(hctx); } } Thanks Jianchao