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When drivers are called with a request in blk-mq, blk-mq flags the state such that the driver knows if this is the last request in this call chain or not. The driver can then use that information to defer kicking off IO until bd->last is true. However, with blk-mq and scheduling, we need to allocate a driver tag for a request before it can be issued. If we fail to allocate such a tag, we could end up in the situation where the last request issued did not have bd->last == true set. This can then cause a driver hang. This fixes a hang with virtio-blk, which uses bd->last as a hint on whether to kick the queue or not. Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.