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This reverts commit 07b679f7

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This change appears to have broken things...
We now see applications hanging during disk accesses.
e.g.
multi-port virtio-blk device running in h/w (FPGA)
Host running a simple 'fio' test.
[global]
thread=1
direct=1
ioengine=libaio
norandommap=1
group_reporting=1
bs=4K
rw=read
iodepth=128
runtime=1
numjobs=4
time_based
[job0]
filename=/dev/vda
[job1]
filename=/dev/vdb
[job2]
filename=/dev/vdc
...
[job15]
filename=/dev/vdp

i.e. 16 disks; 4 queues per disk; simple burst of 4KB reads
This is repeatedly run in a loop.

After a few, normally <10 seconds, fio hangs.
With 64 queues (16 disks), failure occurs within a few seconds; with 8 queues (2 disks) it may take ~hour before hanging.
Last message:
fio-3.19
Starting 8 threads
Jobs: 1 (f=1): [_(7),R(1)][68.3%][eta 03h:11m:06s]
I think this means at the end of the run 1 queue was left incomplete.

'diskstats' (run while fio is hung) shows no outstanding transactions.
e.g.
$ cat /proc/diskstats
...
252       0 vda 1843140071 0 14745120568 712568645 0 0 0 0 0 3117947 712568645 0 0 0 0 0 0
252      16 vdb 1816291511 0 14530332088 704905623 0 0 0 0 0 3117711 704905623 0 0 0 0 0 0
...

Other stats (in the h/w, and added to the virtio-blk driver ([a]virtio_queue_rq(), [b]virtblk_handle_req(), [c]virtblk_request_done()) all agree, and show every request had a completion, and that virtblk_request_done() never gets called.
e.g.
PF= 0                         vq=0           1           2           3
[a]request_count     -   839416590   813148916   105586179    84988123
[b]completion1_count -   839416590   813148916   105586179    84988123
[c]completion2_count -           0           0           0           0

PF= 1                         vq=0           1           2           3
[a]request_count     -   823335887   812516140   104582672    75856549
[b]completion1_count -   823335887   812516140   104582672    75856549
[c]completion2_count -           0           0           0           0

i.e. the issue is after the virtio-blk driver.

This change was introduced in kernel 6.3.0.
I am seeing this using 6.3.3.
If I run with an earlier kernel (5.15), it does not occur.
If I make a simple patch to the 6.3.3 virtio-blk driver, to skip the blk_mq_add_to_batch()call, it does not fail.
e.g.
kernel 5.15 - this is OK
virtio_blk.c,virtblk_done() [irq handler]
                 if (likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(req->q))) {
                          blk_mq_complete_request(req);
                 }

kernel 6.3.3 - this fails
virtio_blk.c,virtblk_handle_req() [irq handler]
                 if (likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(req->q))) {
                          if (!blk_mq_complete_request_remote(req)) {
                                  if (!blk_mq_add_to_batch(req, iob, virtblk_vbr_status(vbr), virtblk_complete_batch)) {
                                           virtblk_request_done(req);    //this never gets called... so blk_mq_add_to_batch() must always succeed
                                   }
                          }
                 }

If I do, kernel 6.3.3 - this is OK
virtio_blk.c,virtblk_handle_req() [irq handler]
                 if (likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(req->q))) {
                          if (!blk_mq_complete_request_remote(req)) {
                                   virtblk_request_done(req); //force this here...
                                  if (!blk_mq_add_to_batch(req, iob, virtblk_vbr_status(vbr), virtblk_complete_batch)) {
                                           virtblk_request_done(req);    //this never gets called... so blk_mq_add_to_batch() must always succeed
                                   }
                          }
                 }

Perhaps you might like to fix/test/revert this change...
Martin
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202306090826.C1fZmdMe-lkp@intel.com/


Cc: Suwan Kim <suwan.kim027@gmail.com>
Tested-by: edliaw@google.com
Reported-by: "Roberts, Martin" <martin.roberts@intel.com>
Message-Id: <336455b4f630f329380a8f53ee8cad3868764d5c.1686295549.git.mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>