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Date:   Thu, 1 Sep 2022 15:06:08 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To:     Dusty Mabe <dusty@dustymabe.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
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        linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression caused by block: freeze the queue earlier in
 del_gendisk
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Hi Dusty,

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 12:15:22PM -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> I think I've found a regression introduced by:
> 
> a09b314 o block: freeze the queue earlier in del_gendisk
> 
> In Fedora CoreOS we have tests that set up RAID1 on the /boot/ and /root/ partitions
> and then subsequently removes one of the disks to simulate a failure. Sometime recently

Do you have test case which doesn't need raid1 over /boot or /root? such
as by create raid1 over two disks, then mount & remove one of device, ...

It isn't easy to setup/observe such test case and observe what is wrong.

> this test started timing out occasionally. Looking a bit closer it appears instances are
> getting stuck during reboot with a bunch of looping messages:
> 
> ```
> [   17.978854] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.982555] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.985537] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.987546] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.989540] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.991547] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.993555] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.995539] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.997577] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   17.999544] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [   22.979465] blkdev_get_no_open: 1666 callbacks suppressed
> ...
> ...
> ...
> [  618.221270] blkdev_get_no_open: 1664 callbacks suppressed
> [  618.221273] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.224274] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.227267] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.229274] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.231277] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.233277] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.235282] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.237370] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.239356] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> [  618.241290] block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.
> ```
> 
> Using the Fedora kernels I narrowed it down to being introduced between 
> `kernel-5.19.0-0.rc3.27.fc37` (good) and `kernel-5.19.0-0.rc4.33.fc37` (bad).
> 
> I then did a bisect and found:
> 
> ```
> $ git bisect bad
> a09b314005f3a0956ebf56e01b3b80339df577cc is the first bad commit
> commit a09b314005f3a0956ebf56e01b3b80339df577cc
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Date:   Tue Jun 14 09:48:27 2022 +0200
> 
>     block: freeze the queue earlier in del_gendisk

It is a bit hard to associate the above commit with reported issue.


Thanks,
Ming