blk-flush: move the queue kick into

A dm-multipath user reported[1] a problem when trying to boot
a kernel with commit 4853abaae7e4a2af938115ce9071ef8684fb7af4
(block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring
flush flags) applied.  It turns out that an empty flush request
can be sent into blk_insert_flush.  When the BUG_ON was fixed
to allow for this, I/O on the underlying device would stall.  The
reason is that blk_insert_cloned_request does not kick the queue.
In the aforementioned commit, I had added a special case to
kick the queue if data was sent down but the queue flags did
not require a flush.  A better solution is to push the queue
kick up into blk_insert_cloned_request.

This patch, along with a follow-on which fixes the BUG_ON, fixes
the issue reported.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-September/msg00154.html

Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Stable note: 3.1
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index d34433ae791781b5799edfa838f058922443e78d..795154e54a75f83103085d04ffa0151b4f7ee8e3 100644 (file)
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1725,6 +1725,8 @@ int blk_insert_cloned_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
                where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH;
 
        add_acct_request(q, rq, where);
+       if (where == ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH)
+               __blk_run_queue(q);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
 
        return 0;

diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 89ae3b9bf7ca7515eec7b36d5c71ba6501a26a53..720ad607ff91c31de69a888001399132f5eaad01 100644 (file)
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq)
        if ((policy & REQ_FSEQ_DATA) &&
            !(policy & (REQ_FSEQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH))) {
                list_add_tail(&rq->queuelist, &q->queue_head);
-               blk_run_queue_async(q);
                return;
        }