cxlflash: Fix to resolve dead-lock during EEH recovery
authorManoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 23 May 2016 20:30:42 +0000 (14:30 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:27:47 +0000 (08:27 +0200)
commitd774bfcec0980b1be5c02405c5ac2e6c4ede56b7
tree0e140397124e6b89c7079ebbba40e14f7c300e2c
parente4b3a13ece27435f509b40235af7bec052b4dddb
cxlflash: Fix to resolve dead-lock during EEH recovery

[ Upstream commit 635f6b0893cff193a1774881ebb1e4a4b9a7fead ]

When a cxlflash adapter goes into EEH recovery and multiple processes
(each having established its own context) are active, the EEH recovery
can hang if the processes attempt to recover in parallel. The symptom
logged after a couple of minutes is:

INFO: task eehd:48 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Not tainted 4.5.0-491-26f710d+ #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
eehd            0    48      2
Call Trace:
__switch_to+0x2f0/0x410
__schedule+0x300/0x980
schedule+0x48/0xc0
rwsem_down_write_failed+0x294/0x410
down_write+0x88/0xb0
cxlflash_pci_error_detected+0x100/0x1c0 [cxlflash]
cxl_vphb_error_detected+0x88/0x110 [cxl]
cxl_pci_error_detected+0xb0/0x1d0 [cxl]
eeh_report_error+0xbc/0x130
eeh_pe_dev_traverse+0x94/0x160
eeh_handle_normal_event+0x17c/0x450
eeh_handle_event+0x184/0x370
eeh_event_handler+0x1c8/0x1d0
kthread+0x110/0x130
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xa4
INFO: task blockio:33215 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

Not tainted 4.5.0-491-26f710d+ #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
blockio         0 33215  33213
Call Trace:
0x1 (unreliable)
__switch_to+0x2f0/0x410
__schedule+0x300/0x980
schedule+0x48/0xc0
rwsem_down_read_failed+0x124/0x1d0
down_read+0x68/0x80
cxlflash_ioctl+0x70/0x6f0 [cxlflash]
scsi_ioctl+0x3b0/0x4c0
sg_ioctl+0x960/0x1010
do_vfs_ioctl+0xd8/0x8c0
SyS_ioctl+0xd4/0xf0
system_call+0x38/0xb4
INFO: task eehd:48 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

The hang is because of a 3 way dead-lock:

Process A holds the recovery mutex, and waits for eehd to complete.
Process B holds the semaphore and waits for the recovery mutex.
eehd waits for semaphore.

The fix is to have Process B above release the semaphore before
attempting to acquire the recovery mutex. This will allow
eehd to proceed to completion.

Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/cxlflash/superpipe.c