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Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2017 03:13:15 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.io>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: scrub: use do_div() for 64-by-32 division

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 05:58:54AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 11:07:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Unbreaks ARM and possibly other 32-bit architectures.
> 
> Turns out those "other 32-bit architectures" happen to include i386.
> 
> A modular build:
> ERROR: "__udivdi3" [fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko] undefined!
> With the patch, i386 builds fine.
> 
> > Tested on amd64 where all is fine, and on arm (Odroid-U2) where scrub
> > sometimes works, but, like most operations, randomly dies with some badness
> > that doesn't look related: io_schedule, kunmap_high.  That badness wasn't
> > there in 4.11-rc5, needs investigating, but since it's not connected to our
> > issue at hand, I consider this patch sort-of tested.
> 
> Looks like current -next is pretty broken: while amd64 is ok, on an i386 box
> (non-NX Pentium 4) it hangs very early during boot, way before filesystem
> modules would be loaded.  Qemu boots but has random hangs.

A non-modular i386_defconfig + btrfs of -next is ok; whatever the problem
is, it's not relevant to our division build failure in scrub.

But, it looks like parity scrub is ${EXPLETIVE}ed on 32-bit.  Not just on
-next, also on 4.11-rc5 and 4.9.  Test script I used is attached, although
it's enough to just scrub a kosher filesystem without even damaging it.
On 64-bit it mostly works, but still warns about bogus unrecoverable errors
when in fact it succeeded.

Thus, I'd recommend:
* applying this patch to at least make it compile
* taking steps to warn outside people about RAID5/6

Let's discuss the rest in another thread, it's no longer interesting to ARM
people, they just want no build failures.

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