Re: [PATCH, RFC] ubd: remove use of blk_rq_map_sg

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On 10/15/18 4:44 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2018, 00:04:20 CEST schrieb Jens Axboe:
>> On 10/15/18 3:46 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2018, 22:55:29 CEST schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:42:47PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>>> Sadly not. I'm checking now what exactly is broken.
>>>>>
>>>>> I take this back. Christoph's fixup makes reading work.
>>>>> The previous version corrupted my test block device in interesting ways
>>>>> and confused all tests.
>>>>> But the removal of blk_rq_map_sg() still has issues.
>>>>> Now the device blocks endless upon flush.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect we still need to special case flush.  Updated patch below
>>>> including your other suggestion:
>>>
>>> While playing further with the patch I managed to hit
>>> BUG_ON(blk_queued_rq(rq)) in blk_mq_requeue_request().
>>>
>>> UML requeues the request in ubd_queue_one_vec() if it was not able
>>> to submit the request to the host io-thread.
>>> The fd can return -EAGAIN, then UML has to try later.
>>>
>>> Isn't this allowed in that context?
>>
>> It is, the problem is that queue_one_vec() doesn't always return an
>> error. The caller is doing a loop per bio, so we can encounter an
>> error, requeue, and then the caller will call us again. We're in
>> an illegal state at that point, and the next requeue will make that
>> obvious since it's already pending. Actually, both the caller and
>> ubd_queue_one_vec() also requeue. So it's a bit of a mess, the below
>> might help.
> 
> I agree, the driver *is* a mess.
> Unless someone else volunteers to clean it up, I'll push that task on
> my never ending TODO list.

I doubt you'll have to fight anyone for that task ;-)

> Thanks for your hint with the illegal state.
> Now with correct requeuing the driver seems to work fine!
> Write/Flush support also suffered from that but didn't trigger the BUG_ON()...

OK good, at least we're making progress!

-- 
Jens Axboe




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