blk-mq uses percpu_ref for its usage counter which tracks the number
of in-flight commands and used to synchronously drain the queue on
freeze.  percpu_ref shutdown takes measureable wallclock time as it
involves a sched RCU grace period.  This means that draining a blk-mq
takes measureable wallclock time.  One would think that this shouldn't
matter as queue shutdown should be a rare event which takes place
asynchronously w.r.t. userland.

Unfortunately, SCSI probing involves synchronously setting up and then
tearing down a lot of request_queues back-to-back for non-existent
LUNs.  This means that SCSI probing may take above ten seconds when
scsi-mq is used.

  [    0.949892] scsi host0: Virtio SCSI HBA
  [    1.007864] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     QEMU     QEMU HARDDISK    1.1. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
  [    1.021299] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access     QEMU     QEMU HARDDISK    1.1. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
  [    1.520356] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2491.910 MHz

  <stall>

  [   16.186549] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
  [   16.190478] sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
  [   16.194099] osd: LOADED open-osd 0.2.1
  [   16.203202] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 31457280 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
  [   16.208478] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
  [   16.211439] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
  [   16.218771] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 31457280 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
  [   16.223264] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
  [   16.225682] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

This is also the reason why request_queues start in bypass mode which
is ended on blk_register_queue() as shutting down a fully functional
queue also involves a RCU grace period and the queues for non-existent
SCSI devices never reach registration.

blk-mq basically needs to do the same thing - start the mq in a
degraded mode which is faster to shut down and then make it fully
functional only after the queue reaches registration.  percpu_ref
recently grew facilities to force atomic operation until explicitly
switched to percpu mode, which can be used for this purpose.  This
patch makes blk-mq initialize q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode and
switch it to percpu mode only once blk_register_queue() is reached.

Note that this issue was previously worked around by 0a30288d
("blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during
probe") for v3.17.  The temp fix was reverted in preparation of adding
persistent atomic mode to percpu_ref by 9eca8046 ("Revert "blk-mq,
percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe"").
This patch and the prerequisite percpu_ref changes will be merged
during v3.18 devel cycle.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140919113815.GA10791@lst.de
Fixes: add703fd ("blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count")
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>