blk-mq: order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED_RE…

…START

SCHED_RESTART code path is relied to re-run queue for dispatch requests
in hctx->dispatch. Meantime the SCHED_RSTART flag is checked when adding
requests to hctx->dispatch.

memory barriers have to be used for ordering the following two pair of OPs:

1) adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking SCHED_RESTART in
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()

2) clearing SCHED_RESTART and checking if there is request in hctx->dispatch
in blk_mq_sched_restart().

Without the added memory barrier, either:

1) blk_mq_sched_restart() may miss requests added to hctx->dispatch meantime
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() observes SCHED_RESTART, and not run queue in
dispatch side

or

2) blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list still sees SCHED_RESTART, and not run queue
in dispatch side, meantime checking if there is request in
hctx->dispatch from blk_mq_sched_restart() is missed.

IO hang in ltp/fs_fill test is reported by kernel test robot:

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/26/77

Turns out it is caused by the above out-of-order OPs. And the IO hang
can't be observed any more after applying this patch.

Fixes: bd166ef ("blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: David Jeffery <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

block/blk-mq-sched.c

@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ void blk_mq_sched_restart(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx)
 		return;
 	clear_bit(BLK_MQ_S_SCHED_RESTART, &hctx->state);
 
+	/*
+	 * Order clearing SCHED_RESTART and list_empty_careful(&hctx->dispatch)
+	 * in blk_mq_run_hw_queue(). Its pair is the barrier in
+	 * blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(). So dispatch code won't see SCHED_RESTART,
+	 * meantime new request added to hctx->dispatch is missed to check in
+	 * blk_mq_run_hw_queue().
+	 */
+	smp_mb();
+
 	blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, true);
 }
 

block/blk-mq.c

@@ -1437,6 +1437,15 @@ bool blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct list_head *list,
 		list_splice_tail_init(list, &hctx->dispatch);
 		spin_unlock(&hctx->lock);
 
+		/*
+		 * Order adding requests to hctx->dispatch and checking
+		 * SCHED_RESTART flag. The pair of this smp_mb() is the one
+		 * in blk_mq_sched_restart(). Avoid restart code path to
+		 * miss the new added requests to hctx->dispatch, meantime
+		 * SCHED_RESTART is observed here.
+		 */
+		smp_mb();
+
 		/*
 		 * If SCHED_RESTART was set by the caller of this function and
 		 * it is no longer set that means that it was cleared by another