> Il giorno 14 feb 2017, alle ore 00:10, Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> ha
> scritto:
>
> On 02/13/2017 03:28 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 02/13/2017 03:09 PM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:01:07PM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
>>>> If, at boot, a legacy I/O scheduler is chosen for a device using blk-mq,
>>>> or, viceversa, a blk-mq scheduler is chosen for a device using blk, then
>>>> that scheduler is set and initialized without any check, driving the
>>>> system into an inconsistent state. This commit addresses this issue by
>>>> letting elevator_get fail for these wrong cross choices.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.vale...@linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>> block/elevator.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>>>> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> Hey, Paolo,
>>>
>>> How exactly are you triggering this? In __elevator_change(), we do check
>>> for mq or not mq:
>>>
>>> if (!e->uses_mq && q->mq_ops) {
>>> elevator_put(e);
>>> return -EINVAL;
>>> }
>>> if (e->uses_mq && !q->mq_ops) {
>>> elevator_put(e);
>>> return -EINVAL;
>>> }
>>>
>>> We don't ever appear to call elevator_init() with a specific scheduler
>>> name, and for the default we switch off of q->mq_ops and use the
>>> defaults from Kconfig:
>>>
>>> if (q->mq_ops && q->nr_hw_queues == 1)
>>> e = elevator_get(CONFIG_DEFAULT_SQ_IOSCHED, false);
>>> else if (q->mq_ops)
>>> e = elevator_get(CONFIG_DEFAULT_MQ_IOSCHED, false);
>>> else
>>> e = elevator_get(CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED, false);
>>>
>>> if (!e) {
>>> printk(KERN_ERR
>>> "Default I/O scheduler not found. " \
>>> "Using noop/none.\n");
>>> e = elevator_get("noop", false);
>>> }
>>>
>>> So I guess this could happen if someone manually changed those Kconfig
>>> options, but I don't see what other case would make this happen, could
>>> you please explain?
>>
>> Was wondering the same - is it using the 'elevator=' boot parameter?
>> Didn't look at that path just now, but that's the only one I could
>> think of. If it is, I'd much prefer only using 'chosen_elevator' for
>> the non-mq stuff, and the fix should be just that instead.
>>
>> So instead of:
>>
>> if (!e && *chosen_elevator) {
>>
>> do
>>
>> if (!e && !q->mq_ops && && *chosen_elevator) {
>
> Confirmed, that's what it seems to be, and here's a real diff of the
> above example that works for me:
>
> diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
> index 27ff1ed5a6fa..699d10f71a2c 100644
> --- a/block/elevator.c
> +++ b/block/elevator.c
> @@ -207,11 +207,12 @@ int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
> }
>
> /*
> - * Use the default elevator specified by config boot param or
> - * config option. Don't try to load modules as we could be running
> - * off async and request_module() isn't allowed from async.
> + * Use the default elevator specified by config boot param for
> + * non-mq devices, or by config option.
I don't fully get this choice: being able to change the default I/O
scheduler through the command line has been rather useful for me,
saving me a lot of recompilations, and such a feature seems widespread
among (at least power) users. However, mine is of course just an
opinion, and I may be missing the main point also in this case.
Thanks,
Paolo
> Don't try to load modules
> + * as we could be running off async and request_module() isn't
> + * allowed from async.
> */
> - if (!e && *chosen_elevator) {
> + if (!e && !q->mq_ops && *chosen_elevator) {
> e = elevator_get(chosen_elevator, false);
> if (!e)
> printk(KERN_ERR "I/O scheduler %s not found\n",
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
