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    cxlflash: Fix to resolve dead-lock during EEH recovery · 635f6b08
    Manoj N. Kumar authored
    
    
    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: default avatarManoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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