Supposing the following scenario. CPU0 CPU1 blk_mq_insert_request() 1) store blk_mq_unquiesce_queue() blk_queue_flag_clear() 3) store blk_mq_run_hw_queues() blk_mq_run_hw_queue() if (!blk_mq_hctx_has_pending()) 4) load return blk_mq_run_hw_queue() if (blk_queue_quiesced()) 2) load return blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() The full memory barrier should be inserted between 1) and 2), as well as between 3) and 4) to make sure that either CPU0 sees QUEUE_FLAG_QUIESCED is cleared or CPU1 sees dispatch list or setting of bitmap of software queue. Otherwise, either CPU will not rerun the hardware queue causing starvation. So the first solution is to 1) add a pair of memory barrier to fix the problem, another solution is to 2) use hctx->queue->queue_lock to synchronize QUEUE_FLAG_QUIESCED. Here, we chose 2) to fix it since memory barrier is not easy to be maintained. Fixes: f4560ffe8cec ("blk-mq: use QUEUE_FLAG_QUIESCED to quiesce queue") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241014092934.53630-3-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index a15c665a77100..3db8cc6b51fb1 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -1610,16 +1610,7 @@ void blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, unsigned long msecs) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue); -/** - * blk_mq_run_hw_queue - Start to run a hardware queue. - * @hctx: Pointer to the hardware queue to run. - * @async: If we want to run the queue asynchronously. - * - * Check if the request queue is not in a quiesced state and if there are - * pending requests to be sent. If this is true, run the queue to send requests - * to hardware. - */ -void blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async) +static inline bool blk_mq_hw_queue_need_run(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) { int srcu_idx; bool need_run; @@ -1637,6 +1628,37 @@ void blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async) blk_mq_hctx_has_pending(hctx); hctx_unlock(hctx, srcu_idx); + return need_run; +} + +/** + * blk_mq_run_hw_queue - Start to run a hardware queue. + * @hctx: Pointer to the hardware queue to run. + * @async: If we want to run the queue asynchronously. + * + * Check if the request queue is not in a quiesced state and if there are + * pending requests to be sent. If this is true, run the queue to send requests + * to hardware. + */ +void blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async) +{ + bool need_run; + + need_run = blk_mq_hw_queue_need_run(hctx); + if (!need_run) { + unsigned long flags; + + /* + * Synchronize with blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(), because we check + * if hw queue is quiesced locklessly above, we need the use + * ->queue_lock to make sure we see the up-to-date status to + * not miss rerunning the hw queue. + */ + spin_lock_irqsave(&hctx->queue->queue_lock, flags); + need_run = blk_mq_hw_queue_need_run(hctx); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hctx->queue->queue_lock, flags); + } + if (need_run) __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(hctx, async, 0); } -- 2.20.1