Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: make sure that request queue queiesce and unquiesce balanced

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On 11/1/21 7:43 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-10-21 at 22:59 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> For fixing queue quiesce race between driver and block layer(elevator
>> switch, update nr_requests, ...), we need to support concurrent
>> quiesce
>> and unquiesce, which requires the two call balanced.
>>
>> It isn't easy to audit that in all scsi drivers, especially the two
>> may
>> be called from different contexts, so do it in scsi core with one
>> per-device
>> bit flag & global spinlock, basically zero cost since request queue
>> quiesce
>> is seldom triggered.
>>
>> Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: e70feb8b3e68 ("blk-mq: support concurrent queue
>> quiesce/unquiesce")
>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c    | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>> ----
>>  include/scsi/scsi_device.h |  1 +
>>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
>> index 51fcd46be265..414f4daf8005 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
>> @@ -2638,6 +2638,40 @@ static int
>> __scsi_internal_device_block_nowait(struct scsi_device *sdev)
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sdev_queue_stop_lock);
>> +
>> +void scsi_start_queue(struct scsi_device *sdev)
>> +{
>> +	bool need_start;
>> +	unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&sdev_queue_stop_lock, flags);
>> +	need_start = sdev->queue_stopped;
>> +	sdev->queue_stopped = 0;
>> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sdev_queue_stop_lock, flags);
>> +
>> +	if (need_start)
>> +		blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(sdev->request_queue);
> 
> Well, this is a classic atomic pattern:
> 
> if (cmpxchg(&sdev->queue_stopped, 1, 0))
> 	blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(sdev->request_queue);
> 
> The reason to do it with atomics rather than spinlocks is
> 
>    1. no need to disable interrupts: atomics are locked
>    2. faster because a spinlock takes an exclusive line every time but the
>       read to check the value can be in shared mode in cmpxchg
>    3. it's just shorter and better code.
> 
> The only minor downside is queue_stopped now needs to be a u32.

Are you fine with the change as-is, or do you want it redone? I
can drop the SCSI parts and just queue up the dm fix. Personally
I think it'd be better to get it fixed upfront.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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