I will apply the v1, aka "Add blk_mq_tag_set shared_tags check", and
fix the "runtime get BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED" later, since v3 has
some problems and we are running out of time before release.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM lijiang <lijiang(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi lianbo,
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM lijiang <lijiang(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
<devel-request(a)lists.crash-utility.osci.io> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:36:29 +1300
>> >> From: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com>
>> >> Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] Add blk_mq_tag_set shared_tags check
>> >> To: devel(a)lists.crash-utility.osci.io
>> >> Cc: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com>
>> >> Message-ID: <20251119023628.15998-2-ltao(a)redhat.com>
>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; x-default=true
>> >>
>> >> A regression of cmd dev -d/-D noticed on some vmcores as:
>> >>
>> >> dev: invalid structure member offset: blk_mq_tag_set_shared_tags
>> >> FILE: dev.c LINE: 4468 FUNCTION:
blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter()
>> >>
>> >> MAJOR GENDISK NAME REQUEST_QUEUE TOTAL ASYNC
SYNC
>> >> [crash] error trace: 91aa85 => 91a552 => 94d6ba => 94d647
>> >>
>> >> 94d647: OFFSET_verify.part.0+55
>> >> 94d6ba: OFFSET_verify+42
>> >> 91a552: get_diskio_1+2194
>> >> 91aa85: display_all_diskio+1253
>> >>
>> >> The root cause is, though upstream kernel have defined
BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED
>> >> as (1 << 3), the value might be set different, e.g. [1]. So a
single
>> >
>> >
>> > We should be able to get the value of BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED via the
dump_enumerator_list(), and then test it in the following function:
>>
>> Please see [1], I removed (1<<3) and resolved it at runtime.
>> dump_enumerator_list() is not appropriate, but I used
>> arg_to_datatype().
>
>
> Can you try the enumerator_value()? Looks more appropriate. E.g:
>
> enumerator_value("BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED", &value);
Sure, looks better.
Please see v3:
https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.crash-utility.osci.io/msg01845.html
Thanks,
Tao Liu
>
>
> Thanks
> Lianbo
>
>> In dump_enumerator_list("BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED"),
>>
>> if (!arg_to_datatype(e, dm, RETURN_ON_ERROR) ||
>> (dm->size < 0) || (dm->type != ENUM) || dm->tagname)
>>
>> dm->tagname is not NULL and will make dump_enumerator_list return false:
>>
>> (gdb) p dm
>> $1 = {name = 0xe4911b "BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED", member = 0x0, type
=
>> 8192, size = 0, member_offset = 0, member_size = 0,
>> member_typecode = 0, flags = 0, tagname = 0xd41dfd "(unknown)",
>> value = 8, vaddr = 0}
>>
>> [1]:
https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.crash-utility.osci.io/msg01841.html
>>
>> >
>> > static bool blk_mq_is_shared_tags(unsigned int flags)
>> > {
>> > return flags & BLK_MQ_F_TAG_HCTX_SHARED;
>> > }
>> >
>> > That can follow the changes once the upstream kernel modifies the value.
>> >
>> >> blk_mq_is_shared_tags() check is not sufficient. This patch will add
shared_tagsblk_mq_is_shared_tags() check is not sufficient. This patch will add
shared_tags
>> >> member check within blk_mq_tag_set struct as an enhancment.
>> >
>> >
>> > Anyway, this change looks good, so: Ack
>> >
>> > Lianbo
>> >
>> >> [1]:
https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-8/-/blob...
>> >>
>> >> Fixes: 62486400d35b ("Add blk_mq shared tags support for dev
-d/-D")
>> >> Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com>
>> >> ---
>> >> dev.c | 2 +-
>> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/dev.c b/dev.c
>> >> index 8391d71..27318e8 100644
>> >> --- a/dev.c
>> >> +++ b/dev.c
>> >> @@ -4464,7 +4464,7 @@ static void blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter(ulong q,
ulong *hctx, uint cnt,
>> >> readmem(addr + OFFSET(blk_mq_tag_set_flags), KVADDR,
>> >> &flags, sizeof(uint),
"blk_mq_tag_set.flags", RETURN_ON_ERROR);
>> >>
>> >> - if (blk_mq_is_shared_tags(flags)) {
>> >> + if (blk_mq_is_shared_tags(flags) &&
VALID_MEMBER(blk_mq_tag_set_shared_tags)) {
>> >> addr = addr + OFFSET(blk_mq_tag_set_shared_tags);
>> >> queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, addr, bitmap_tags_is_ptr,
dio);
>> >> return;
>> >> --
>> >> 2.47.0
>>