Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued

Tvrtko needs

commit b3c11ac267d461d3d597967164ff7278a919a39f
Author: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Date:   Sat Nov 12 01:12:56 2016 +0000

    drm: move allocation out of drm_get_format_name()

to be able to apply his patches without conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 6a14b68b9135..3c882cbc7541 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -343,6 +343,34 @@ static void flush_data_end_io(struct request *rq, int error)
 	struct blk_flush_queue *fq = blk_get_flush_queue(q, NULL);
 
 	/*
+	 * Updating q->in_flight[] here for making this tag usable
+	 * early. Because in blk_queue_start_tag(),
+	 * q->in_flight[BLK_RW_ASYNC] is used to limit async I/O and
+	 * reserve tags for sync I/O.
+	 *
+	 * More importantly this way can avoid the following I/O
+	 * deadlock:
+	 *
+	 * - suppose there are 40 fua requests comming to flush queue
+	 *   and queue depth is 31
+	 * - 30 rqs are scheduled then blk_queue_start_tag() can't alloc
+	 *   tag for async I/O any more
+	 * - all the 30 rqs are completed before FLUSH_PENDING_TIMEOUT
+	 *   and flush_data_end_io() is called
+	 * - the other rqs still can't go ahead if not updating
+	 *   q->in_flight[BLK_RW_ASYNC] here, meantime these rqs
+	 *   are held in flush data queue and make no progress of
+	 *   handling post flush rq
+	 * - only after the post flush rq is handled, all these rqs
+	 *   can be completed
+	 */
+
+	elv_completed_request(q, rq);
+
+	/* for avoiding double accounting */
+	rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_STARTED;
+
+	/*
 	 * After populating an empty queue, kick it to avoid stall.  Read
 	 * the comment in flush_end_io().
 	 */