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xen-blkfront: fix mq start/stop race

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When ring buf full, hw queue will be stopped. While blkif interrupt consume
request and make free space in ring buf, hw queue will be started again.
But since start queue is protected by spin lock while stop not, that will
cause a race.

interrupt:                                      process:
blkif_interrupt()                               blkif_queue_rq()
 kick_pending_request_queues_locked()
   blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues()
      clear_bit(BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED, &hctx->state)
	                                             blk_mq_stop_hw_queue(hctx)
	  blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, async)

If ring buf is made empty in this case, interrupt will never come, then the
hw queue will be stopped forever, all processes waiting for the pending io
in the queue will hung.

Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Junxiao Bi 2017-07-20 09:26:21 +08:00 committed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
parent 76451d79bd
commit 4b422cb998
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
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@ -906,8 +906,8 @@ static blk_status_t blkif_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
return BLK_STS_IOERR;
out_busy:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rinfo->ring_lock, flags);
blk_mq_stop_hw_queue(hctx);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rinfo->ring_lock, flags);
return BLK_STS_RESOURCE;
}