linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc6-2450cf in scsi_lib.c (was: Large amount of scsi-sgpool)objects

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Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:13:49 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc6-2450cf in scsi_lib.c (was: Large amount of
	scsi-sgpool)objects

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 22:56 +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 22:45 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> > Instrumented the code and the result of the failing request is
> > below. Looks like the function which sets up the request gets
> > nr_phys_segments wrong by one. 
> > 
> > If you need further trace data feel free to ask.
> 
> OK, the mapping all checks out correctly ... there must be something
> wrong with the way we count before mapping.
> 
> If you're tracing everything, could you add these static prints to the
> trace ... they'll trigger a lot, but capturing how they applied to the
> failing request might tell us why the count is wrong.

Debugging this on IRC, this is the point we reached:

ftrace debugging patch:

http://tglx.de/~tglx/dbg.patch

We're tracing both blk_recalc_rq_segments() and
blk_phys_contig_segment()

The results are here:

http://tglx.de/~tglx/t.txt.bz2

Although what they show is that we're missing the point where the
counting goes wrong (blk_recalc_rq_segments only goes up to 5 max).

James


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