[dm-devel] [PATCHv2 0/4] blk-mq support for dm multipath

[Mike Snitzer]

On Sat, Dec 06 2014 at 12:53am -0500,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> wrote:
 
> But in general this code needs _a lot_ more testing/review.
> Sadly I cannot stage it for 3.19 inclusion.

FYI, even though the mpath device is created without crashing it hangs
when IO is issued to it (mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/mpathi):

 kernel: mkfs.xfs        D ffff88033fc34740     0  2792   2457 0x00000080
 kernel: ffff880319057cb8 0000000000000082 ffff880327e84c80 0000000000014740
 kernel: ffff880319057fd8 0000000000014740 ffff88032e644c80 ffff880327e84c80
 kernel: ffff88033fc35058 ffff88033ff940e8 ffff880319057d48 0000000000000082
 kernel: Call Trace:
 kernel: [<ffffffff81633a50>] ? bit_wait+0x50/0x50
 kernel: [<ffffffff8163325d>] io_schedule+0x9d/0x120
 kernel: [<ffffffff81633a7c>] bit_wait_io+0x2c/0x50
 kernel: [<ffffffff816337eb>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x4b/0xb0
 kernel: [<ffffffff81166da9>] __lock_page_killable+0xb9/0xe0
 kernel: [<ffffffff810b1c20>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x40/0x40
 kernel: [<ffffffff81168e48>] generic_file_read_iter+0x3e8/0x610
 kernel: [<ffffffff81213bf7>] blkdev_read_iter+0x37/0x40
 kernel: [<ffffffff811dba1b>] new_sync_read+0x8b/0xd0
 kernel: [<ffffffff811dc188>] vfs_read+0x98/0x170
 kernel: [<ffffffff811dce65>] SyS_read+0x55/0xd0
 kernel: [<ffffffff81637769>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

 kernel: kdmwork-253:15  D ffff88033fc54740     0  2745      2 0x00000080
 kernel: ffff88031910bce8 0000000000000046 ffff88032cedb960 0000000000014740
 kernel: ffff88031910bfd8 0000000000014740 ffff88032e645610 ffff88032cedb960
 kernel: ffff88033fc55058 ffff880329565420 ffff880327c4f870 ffff880327c4f800
 kernel: Call Trace:
 kernel: [<ffffffff8163325d>] io_schedule+0x9d/0x120
 kernel: [<ffffffff812c47e8>] get_request+0x218/0x770
 kernel: [<ffffffff810b1be0>] ? prepare_to_wait_event+0xf0/0xf0
 kernel: [<ffffffff812c4dc7>] blk_get_request+0x87/0xe0
 kernel: [<ffffffffa0195bb1>] multipath_map+0x121/0x1b0 [dm_multipath]
 kernel: [<ffffffffa0001032>] map_tio_request+0x52/0x250 [dm_mod]
 kernel: [<ffffffff81090be2>] kthread_worker_fn+0x82/0x1d0
 kernel: [<ffffffff81090b60>] ? kthread_stop+0xe0/0xe0
 kernel: [<ffffffff81090818>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0
 kernel: [<ffffffff81090740>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1a0/0x1a0
 kernel: [<ffffffff816376bc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 kernel: [<ffffffff81090740>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x1a0/0x1a0