From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:48:06 +0000 (-0500) Subject: block: blk-flush shouldn't call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue() X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?p=mv-sheeva.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=255bb490c8c27eed484d538efe6ef6a7473bd3f6 block: blk-flush shouldn't call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue() blk-flush decomposes a flush into sequence of multiple requests. On completion of a request, the next one is queued; however, block layer must not implicitly call into q->request_fn() directly from completion path. This makes the queue behave unexpectedly when seen from the drivers and violates the assumption that q->request_fn() is called with process context + queue_lock. This patch makes blk-flush the following two changes to make sure q->request_fn() is not called directly from request completion path. - blk_flush_complete_seq_end_io() now asks __blk_run_queue() to always use kblockd instead of calling directly into q->request_fn(). - queue_next_fseq() uses ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE instead of ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT so that elv_insert() doesn't try to unplug the request queue directly. Reported by Jan in the following threads. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48778 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48786 stable: applicable to v2.6.37. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Jan Beulich Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c index 56adaa8d55c..b27d0208611 100644 --- a/block/blk-flush.c +++ b/block/blk-flush.c @@ -66,10 +66,12 @@ static void blk_flush_complete_seq_end_io(struct request_queue *q, /* * Moving a request silently to empty queue_head may stall the - * queue. Kick the queue in those cases. + * queue. Kick the queue in those cases. This function is called + * from request completion path and calling directly into + * request_fn may confuse the driver. Always use kblockd. */ if (was_empty && next_rq) - __blk_run_queue(q, false); + __blk_run_queue(q, true); } static void pre_flush_end_io(struct request *rq, int error) @@ -130,7 +132,7 @@ static struct request *queue_next_fseq(struct request_queue *q) BUG(); } - elv_insert(q, rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT); + elv_insert(q, rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE); return rq; }