On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:48:25AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:28 PM
> > To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:17:24PM -0700, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > > During hibernation, the sdevs are suspended automatically in
> > > drivers/scsi/scsi_pm.c before storvsc_suspend(), so after
> > > storvsc_suspend(), there is no disk I/O from the file systems, but there
> > > can still be disk I/O from the kernel space, e.g. disk_check_events() ->
> > > sr_block_check_events() -> cdrom_check_events() can still submit I/O
> > > to the storvsc driver, which causes a paic of NULL pointer dereference,
> > > since storvsc has closed the vmbus channel in storvsc_suspend(): refer
> > > to the below links for more info:
> > >
> > > Fix the panic by blocking/unblocking all the I/O queues properly.
> > >
> > > Note: this patch depends on another patch "scsi: core: Allow the state
> > > change from SDEV_QUIESCE to SDEV_BLOCK" (refer to the second link
> > above).
> > >
> > > Fixes: 56fb10585934 ("scsi: storvsc: Add the support of hibernation")
> > > Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> > > index fb41636519ee..fd51d2f03778 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> > > @@ -1948,6 +1948,11 @@ static int storvsc_suspend(struct hv_device
> > *hv_dev)
> > > struct storvsc_device *stor_device = hv_get_drvdata(hv_dev);
> > > struct Scsi_Host *host = stor_device->host;
> > > struct hv_host_device *host_dev = shost_priv(host);
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + ret = scsi_host_block(host);
> > > + if (ret)
> > > + return ret;
> > >
> > > storvsc_wait_to_drain(stor_device);
> > >
> > > @@ -1968,10 +1973,15 @@ static int storvsc_suspend(struct hv_device
> > *hv_dev)
> > >
> > > static int storvsc_resume(struct hv_device *hv_dev)
> > > {
> > > + struct storvsc_device *stor_device = hv_get_drvdata(hv_dev);
> > > + struct Scsi_Host *host = stor_device->host;
> > > int ret;
> > >
> > > ret = storvsc_connect_to_vsp(hv_dev, storvsc_ringbuffer_size,
> > > hv_dev_is_fc(hv_dev));
> > > + if (!ret)
> > > + ret = scsi_host_unblock(host, SDEV_RUNNING);
> > > +
> > > return ret;
> > > }
> >
> > scsi_host_block() is actually too heavy for just avoiding
> > scsi internal command, which can be done simply by one atomic
> > variable.
> >
> > Not mention scsi_host_block() is implemented too clumsy because
> > nr_luns * synchronize_rcu() are required in scsi_host_block(),
> > which should have been optimized to just one.
> >
> > Also scsi_device_quiesce() is heavy too, still takes 2
> > synchronize_rcu() for one LUN.
> >
> > That is said SCSI suspend may take (3 * nr_luns) sysnchronize_rcu() in
> > case that the HBA's suspend handler needs scsi_host_block().
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ming
>
> When we're in storvsc_suspend(), all the userspace processes have been
> frozen and all the file systems have been flushed, and there should not
> be too much I/O from the kernel space, so IMO scsi_host_block() should be
> pretty fast here.
I guess it depends on RCU's implementation, so CC RCU guys.
Hello Paul & Josh,
Could you clarify that if sysnchronize_rcu becomes quickly during
system suspend?
Thanks,
Ming
