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block: flush: fix IO hang in case of flood fua req

This patch fixes one issue reported by Kent, which can
be triggered in bcachefs over sata disk. Actually it
is a generic issue in block flush vs. blk-tag.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Ming Lei 9 years ago
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      block/blk-flush.c

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block/blk-flush.c

@@ -342,6 +342,34 @@ static void flush_data_end_io(struct request *rq, int error)
 	struct request_queue *q = rq->q;
 	struct blk_flush_queue *fq = blk_get_flush_queue(q, NULL);
 
+	/*
+	 * Updating q->in_flight[] here for making this tag usable
+	 * early. Because in blk_queue_start_tag(),
+	 * q->in_flight[BLK_RW_ASYNC] is used to limit async I/O and
+	 * reserve tags for sync I/O.
+	 *
+	 * More importantly this way can avoid the following I/O
+	 * deadlock:
+	 *
+	 * - suppose there are 40 fua requests comming to flush queue
+	 *   and queue depth is 31
+	 * - 30 rqs are scheduled then blk_queue_start_tag() can't alloc
+	 *   tag for async I/O any more
+	 * - all the 30 rqs are completed before FLUSH_PENDING_TIMEOUT
+	 *   and flush_data_end_io() is called
+	 * - the other rqs still can't go ahead if not updating
+	 *   q->in_flight[BLK_RW_ASYNC] here, meantime these rqs
+	 *   are held in flush data queue and make no progress of
+	 *   handling post flush rq
+	 * - only after the post flush rq is handled, all these rqs
+	 *   can be completed
+	 */
+
+	elv_completed_request(q, rq);
+
+	/* for avoiding double accounting */
+	rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_STARTED;
+
 	/*
 	 * After populating an empty queue, kick it to avoid stall.  Read
 	 * the comment in flush_end_io().