This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled blk-mq: fix blk_mq_hw_ctx active request accounting to the 6.3-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: blk-mq-fix-blk_mq_hw_ctx-active-request-accounting.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d62c3ed793af09d7f654fb1b81f0b2fd0b960928 Author: Tian Lan <tian.lan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 13 18:12:27 2023 -0400 blk-mq: fix blk_mq_hw_ctx active request accounting [ Upstream commit ddad59331a4e16088468ca0ad228a9fe32d7955a ] The nr_active counter continues to increase over time which causes the blk_mq_get_tag to hang until the thread is rescheduled to a different core despite there are still tags available. kernel-stack INFO: task inboundIOReacto:3014879 blocked for more than 2 seconds Not tainted 6.1.15-amd64 #1 Debian 6.1.15~debian11 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:inboundIOReacto state:D stack:0 pid:3014879 ppid:4557 flags:0x00000000 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x351/0xa20 scheduler+0x5d/0xe0 io_schedule+0x42/0x70 blk_mq_get_tag+0x11a/0x2a0 ? dequeue_task_stop+0x70/0x70 __blk_mq_alloc_requests+0x191/0x2e0 kprobe output showing RQF_MQ_INFLIGHT bit is not cleared before __blk_mq_free_request being called. 320 320 kworker/29:1H __blk_mq_free_request rq_flags 0x220c0 in-flight 1 b'__blk_mq_free_request+0x1 [kernel]' b'bt_iter+0x50 [kernel]' b'blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter+0x318 [kernel]' b'blk_mq_timeout_work+0x7c [kernel]' b'process_one_work+0x1c4 [kernel]' b'worker_thread+0x4d [kernel]' b'kthread+0xe6 [kernel]' b'ret_from_fork+0x1f [kernel]' Signed-off-by: Tian Lan <tian.lan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 2e315dc07df0 ("blk-mq: grab rq->refcount before calling ->fn in blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter") Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230513221227.497327-1-tilan7663@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index ae08c4936743d..f2e2ffd135baf 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -717,6 +717,10 @@ static void __blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq) blk_crypto_free_request(rq); blk_pm_mark_last_busy(rq); rq->mq_hctx = NULL; + + if (rq->rq_flags & RQF_MQ_INFLIGHT) + __blk_mq_dec_active_requests(hctx); + if (rq->tag != BLK_MQ_NO_TAG) blk_mq_put_tag(hctx->tags, ctx, rq->tag); if (sched_tag != BLK_MQ_NO_TAG) @@ -728,15 +732,11 @@ static void __blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq) void blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq) { struct request_queue *q = rq->q; - struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx = rq->mq_hctx; if ((rq->rq_flags & RQF_ELVPRIV) && q->elevator->type->ops.finish_request) q->elevator->type->ops.finish_request(rq); - if (rq->rq_flags & RQF_MQ_INFLIGHT) - __blk_mq_dec_active_requests(hctx); - if (unlikely(laptop_mode && !blk_rq_is_passthrough(rq))) laptop_io_completion(q->disk->bdi);