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@vger.kernel.org Cc: Muchun Song muchun.song@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com Reviewed-by: Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com --- block/blk-mq.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index b2d0f22de0c7f..ff6df6c7eeb25 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -2202,6 +2202,24 @@ void blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, unsigned long msecs) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue);

+static inline bool blk_mq_hw_queue_need_run(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) +{ + bool need_run; + + /* + * When queue is quiesced, we may be switching io scheduler, or + * updating nr_hw_queues, or other things, and we can't run queue + * any more, even blk_mq_hctx_has_pending() can't be called safely. + * + * And queue will be rerun in blk_mq_unquiesce_queue() if it is + * quiesced. + */ + __blk_mq_run_dispatch_ops(hctx->queue, false, + need_run = !blk_queue_quiesced(hctx->queue) && + blk_mq_hctx_has_pending(hctx)); + return need_run; +} + /** * blk_mq_run_hw_queue - Start to run a hardware queue. * @hctx: Pointer to the hardware queue to run. @@ -2222,20 +2240,23 @@ void blk_mq_run_hw_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, bool async)

might_sleep_if(!async && hctx->flags & BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING);

- /* - * When queue is quiesced, we may be switching io scheduler, or - * updating nr_hw_queues, or other things, and we can't run queue - * any more, even __blk_mq_hctx_has_pending() can't be called safely. - * - * And queue will be rerun in blk_mq_unquiesce_queue() if it is - * quiesced. - */ - __blk_mq_run_dispatch_ops(hctx->queue, false, - need_run = !blk_queue_quiesced(hctx->queue) && - blk_mq_hctx_has_pending(hctx)); + need_run = blk_mq_hw_queue_need_run(hctx); + if (!need_run) { + unsigned long flags;

- if (!need_run) - return; + /* + * 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) + return; + }

if (async || !cpumask_test_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), hctx->cpumask)) { blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue(hctx, 0);