scsi: ibmvscsi: fix tripping of blk_mq_run_hw_queue WARN_ON
authorTyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 3 May 2019 00:50:58 +0000 (19:50 -0500)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:46:22 +0000 (19:46 -0400)
commitaa343c695aa59f03f31a2f989b8c977a727e46e3
treec1185d4850dd3bed1e43607d53d8d0d845d49fb0
parent6e40de8b6b3cfa7288bb4a1fee2c7173f53b7345
scsi: ibmvscsi: fix tripping of blk_mq_run_hw_queue WARN_ON

After a successful SRP login response we call scsi_unblock_requests() to
kick any pending IOs. The callback to process this SRP response happens in
a tasklet and therefore is in softirq context. The result of such is that
when blk-mq is enabled, it is no longer safe to call scsi_unblock_requests()
from this context. The result of duing so triggers the following WARN_ON
splat in dmesg after a host reset or CRQ reenablement.

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at block/blk-mq.c:1375 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x120/0x180
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc8 #4
NIP [c0000000009771e0] __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x120/0x180
LR [c000000000977484] __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x244/0x250
Call Trace:

__blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x244/0x250
blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x8c/0x1c0
blk_mq_run_hw_queues+0x60/0x90
scsi_run_queue+0x1e4/0x3b0
scsi_run_host_queues+0x48/0x80
login_rsp+0xb0/0x100
ibmvscsi_handle_crq+0x30c/0x3e0
ibmvscsi_task+0x54/0xe0
tasklet_action_common.isra.3+0xc4/0x1a0
__do_softirq+0x174/0x3f4
irq_exit+0xf0/0x120
__do_irq+0xb0/0x210
call_do_irq+0x14/0x24
do_IRQ+0x9c/0x130
hardware_interrupt_common+0x14c/0x150

This patch fixes the issue by introducing a new host action for unblocking
the scsi requests in our seperate work thread.

Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.h