Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] blk-mq: start to freeze queue just after setting dying

[Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:26:26PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 17:57 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Given blk_set_queue_dying() is always called in remove path
> > of block device, and queue will be cleaned up later, we don't
> > need to worry about undoing the counter.
> > 
> > diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> > index d772c221cc17..62d4967c369f 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-core.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> > @@ -500,9 +500,12 @@ void blk_set_queue_dying(struct request_queue *q)
> >  	queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_DYING, q);
> >  	spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> >  
> > -	if (q->mq_ops)
> > +	if (q->mq_ops) {
> >  		blk_mq_wake_waiters(q);
> > -	else {
> > +
> > +		/* block new I/O coming */
> > +		blk_mq_freeze_queue_start(q);
> > +	} else {
> >  		struct request_list *rl;
> >  
> >  		spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> 
> Hello Ming,
> 
> The blk_freeze_queue() call in blk_cleanup_queue() waits until q_usage_counter
> drops to zero. Since the above blk_mq_freeze_queue_start() call increases that
> counter by one, how is blk_freeze_queue() expected to finish ever?

It is q->mq_freeze_depth which is increased by blk_mq_freeze_queue_start(), not
q->q_usage_counter, otherwise blk_freeze_queue() would never return, :-)

Thanks,
Ming