block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O

During long I/O operations, the hang_check timer may fire,
trigger stack dumps that unnecessarily alarm the user.

Eg.  hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdb  ## can take *hours* to complete

So, if hang_check is armed, we should wake up periodically
to prevent it from triggering.  This patch uses a wake-up interval
equal to half the hang_check timer period, which keeps overhead low enough.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

diff --git a/block/blk-exec.c b/block/blk-exec.c
index e1672f1..cf1456a 100644 (file)
--- a/block/blk-exec.c
+++ b/block/blk-exec.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ int blk_execute_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
        DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait);
        char sense[SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE];
        int err = 0;
+       unsigned long hang_check;
 
        /*
         * we need an extra reference to the request, so we can look at
@@ -95,7 +96,13 @@ int blk_execute_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
 
        rq->end_io_data = &wait;
        blk_execute_rq_nowait(q, bd_disk, rq, at_head, blk_end_sync_rq);
-       wait_for_completion(&wait);
+
+       /* Prevent hang_check timer from firing at us during very long I/O */
+       hang_check = sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs;
+       if (hang_check)
+               while (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&wait, hang_check * (HZ/2)));
+       else
+               wait_for_completion(&wait);
 
        if (rq->errors)
                err = -EIO;