Re: blktests failures with v5.19-rc1

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 6:01 AM Chaitanya Kulkarni
<chaitanyak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/15/22 12:47, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 04:00:45AM +0000, Shinichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> >> On Jun 14, 2022 / 02:38, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> >>> Shinichiro,
> >>>
> >>> On 6/13/22 19:23, Keith Busch wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 01:09:07AM +0000, Shinichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> >>>>> (CC+: linux-pci)
> >>>>> On Jun 11, 2022 / 16:34, Yi Zhang wrote:
> >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:49 PM Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> And I am not even sure this is real. I don't know yet why
> >>>>>>> this is showing up only now, but this should fix it:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi Keith
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Confirmed the WARNING issue was fixed with the change, here is
> >>>>>> the log:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks. I also confirmed that Keith's change to add
> >>>>> __ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP to dev_attr_dev_rescan avoids the fix, on
> >>>>> v5.19-rc2.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I took a closer look into this issue and found The deadlock
> >>>>> WARN can be recreated with following two commands:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:09.0/rescan
> >>>>> # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:09.0/remove
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And it can be recreated with PCI devices other than NVME
> >>>>> controller, such as SCSI controller or VGA controller. Then
> >>>>> this is not a storage sub-system issue.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I checked function call stacks of the two commands above. As
> >>>>> shown below, it looks like ABBA deadlock possibility is
> >>>>> detected and warned.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah, I was mistaken on this report, so my proposal to suppress
> >>>> the warning is definitely not right. If I run both 'echo'
> >>>> commands in parallel, I see it deadlock frequently. I'm not
> >>>> familiar enough with this code to any good ideas on how to fix,
> >>>> but I agree this is a generic pci issue.
> >>>
> >>> I think it is worth adding a testcase to blktests to make sure
> >>> these future releases will test this.
> >>
> >> Yeah, this WARN is confusing for us then it would be valuable to
> >> test by blktests not to repeat it. One point I wonder is: which test
> >> group the test case will it fall in? The nvme group could be the
> >> group to add, probably.
> >>
>
> since this issue been discovered with nvme rescan and revmoe,
> it should be added to the nvme category.

We already have nvme/032 which tests nvme rescan/reset/remove and the
issue was reported by running this one, do we still need one more?

>
> >> Another point I wonder is other kernel test suite than blktests.
> >> Don't we have more appropriate test suite to check PCI device
> >> rescan/remove race ? Such a test sounds more like a PCI bus
> >> sub-system test than block/storage test.
>
> I don't think so we could have caught it long time back,
> but we clearly did not.
>
> >
> > I'm not aware of such a test, but it would be nice to have one.
> >
> > Can you share your qemu config so I can reproduce this locally?
> >
> > Thanks for finding and reporting this!
> >
> > Bjorn
>
> -ck
>
>


-- 
Best Regards,
  Yi Zhang




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