Re: [PATCH v3] blk-mq: Fix failed allocation path when mapping queues

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On 12/14/2016 01:48 PM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In blk_mq_map_swqueue, there is a memory optimization that frees the
> tags of a queue that has gone unmapped.  Later, if that hctx is remapped
> after another topology change, the tags need to be reallocated.
> 
> If this allocation fails, a simple WARN_ON triggers, but the block layer
> ends up with an active hctx without any corresponding set of tags.
> Then, any income IO to that hctx can trigger an Oops.
> 
> I can reproduce it consistently by running IO, flipping CPUs on and off
> and eventually injecting a memory allocation failure in that path.
> 
> In the fix below, if the system experiences a failed allocation of any
> hctx's tags, we remap all the ctxs of that queue to the hctx_0, which
> should always keep it's tags.  There is a minor performance hit, since
> our mapping just got worse after the error path, but this is
> the simplest solution to handle this error path.  The performance hit
> will disappear after another successful remap.
> 
> I considered dropping the memory optimization all together, but it
> seemed a bad trade-off to handle this very specific error case.

Thanks, this looks fine to me now. Both of your patches are queued
up for inclusion in 4.10.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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