Hi Nick et al, I'm having a "interesting" problem with the kernel's iSCSI target and could use a debug hint. My target uses an iblock backstore on a dm-linear target. When I now get I/O form the initiator (I used a simple dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null) and call 'dmsetup suspend $backstore' it'll take about 15 seconds for the iscsi_ttx kernel thread to disapear, the iscsi_trx and iscsi_np threads are hanging in 'D'. >From iscsi_trx's stack I see it's waiting in __transport_wait_for_tasks(). The last thing I see in dmesg is the 'ABORT_TASK: Found referenced %s task_tag: %llu' printk but the 'ABORT_TASK: Sending TMR_FUNCTION_COMPLETE for ref_tag: %llu" printk is missing from core_tmr_abort_task(). As there's a transport_wait_for_tasks() call in between I _think_ it is stuck in aborting this one task and none of the complete(se_cmd->t_transport_stop_comp) callers is called. What puzzels me a bit is that right after transport_wait_for_tasks() in core_tmr_abort_task() there's a call to transport_cmd_finish_abort() which in turn calls transport_cmd_check_stop_to_fabric() -> transport_cmd_check_stop() -> complete_all(&cmd->t_transport_stop_comp). Doing --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c @@ -2739,7 +2739,7 @@ __transport_wait_for_tasks(struct se_cmd spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cmd->t_state_lock, *flags); - wait_for_completion(&cmd->t_transport_stop_comp); + wait_for_completion_interruptible(&cmd->t_transport_stop_comp, 5 * HZ); spin_lock_irqsave(&cmd->t_state_lock, *flags); cmd->transport_state &= ~(CMD_T_ACTIVE | CMD_T_STOP); "resolves" the bug, but I don't think this is correct. This is all easily reproducible with v4.8-rc4 in qemu (for instance). Any advice is aprechiated. Thanks in advance, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html