On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 08:04:13AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 08:01:42AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > You keep saying that, but the controller state is global to the
> > > controller. It doesn't matter which namespace request_queue started the
> > > reset: every namespaces request queue sees the RESETTING controller state
> > 
> > When timeouts come, the global state of RESETTING may not be updated
> > yet, so all the timeouts may not observe the state.
> 
> Even prior to the RESETING state, every single command, no matter
> which namespace or request_queue it came on, is reclaimed by the driver.
> There *should* be no requests to timeout after nvme_dev_disable is called
> because the nvme driver returned control of all requests in the tagset
> to blk-mq.

The timed-out requests won't be canceled by nvme_dev_disable().

If the timed-out requests is handled as RESET_TIMER, there may
be new timeout event triggered again.

> 
> In any case, if blk-mq decides it won't complete those requests, we
> can just swap the order in the reset_work: sync first, uncondintionally
> disable. Does the following snippet look more okay?
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 17a0190bd88f..42af077ee07a 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -2307,11 +2307,14 @@ static void nvme_reset_work(struct work_struct *work)
>               goto out;
>  
>       /*
> -      * If we're called to reset a live controller first shut it down before
> -      * moving on.
> +      * Ensure there are no timeout work in progress prior to forcefully
> +      * disabling the queue. There is no harm in disabling the device even
> +      * when it was already disabled, as this will forcefully reclaim any
> +      * IOs that are stuck due to blk-mq's timeout handling that prevents
> +      * timed out requests from completing.
>        */
> -     if (dev->ctrl.ctrl_config & NVME_CC_ENABLE)
> -             nvme_dev_disable(dev, false);
> +     nvme_sync_queues(&dev->ctrl);
> +     nvme_dev_disable(dev, false);

That may not work reliably too.

For example, request A from NS_0 is timed-out and handled as RESET_TIMER,
meantime request B from NS_1 is timed-out and handled as EH_HANDLED.

When the above reset work is run for handling timeout of req B,
new timeout event on request A may come just between the above
nvme_sync_queues() and nvme_dev_disable(), then nvme_dev_disable()
can't cover request A, and finally the timed-out event for req A
will nvme_dev_disable() when the current reset is just in-progress,
then this reset can't move on, and IO hang is caused.


Thanks,
Ming

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