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Message-ID: <20071021124426.GS10674@kernel.dk>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:44:27 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@...t.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash on Legacy iSeries viodasd.c
On Fri, Oct 19 2007, Will Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Jens, Stephen, and Everyone else.
>
> I am seeing this crash on a legacy iSeries box. Bisect points at
> 70eb8040dc81212c884a464b75e37dca8014f3ad (Add chained sg support to
> linux/scatterlist.h).
>
> I see there were some related troubles discussed a couple days back.
> I've refreshed my tree, so believe I should have pulled in all the
> changes that fixed those issues by now, so this is an additional problem
> (viodasd funkyness), or I've screwed something up in my pulls, or fixes
> are still pending in another tree.
>
> >From the register dump, looks like sg passed into memset was a -2.
>
> (from blk_rq_map_sg()) if (!sg)
> sg = sglist;
> else
> sg = sg_next(sg);
>
> memset(sg, 0, sizeof(*sg)); <--
>
>
> linux-2.6.git tree at
> commit 4fa4d23fa20de67df919030c1216295664866ad7
> Merge: a9e82d3... 4f1e5ba...
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...dy.linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Thu Oct 18 19:31:54 2007 -0700
> Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
>
> > git log drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> commit a3bec5c5aea0da263111c4d8f8eabc1f8560d7bf
> Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@...l.home.kernel.dk>
> Date: Wed Oct 17 19:33:05 2007 +0200
>
> Revert "[SCSI] Remove full sg table memset()"
>
> > > git log block/ll_rw_blk.c
> commit ba951841ceb7fa5b06ad48caa5270cc2ae17941e
> Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
> Date: Wed Oct 17 19:34:11 2007 +0200
>
> [BLOCK] blk_rq_map_sg() next_sg fixup
>
> -- The panic is:
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xfffffffffffffffe
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000282f0
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> SMP NR_CPUS=32 iSeries
> Modules linked in:
> NIP: c0000000000282f0 LR: c0000000001c772c CTR: 0000000000000000
> REGS: c000000002026b00 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.23)
> MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 44000022 XER: 00000008
> DAR: fffffffffffffffe, DSISR: 0000000042000000
> TASK = c000000002022000[1] 'swapper' THREAD: c000000002024000 CPU: 1
> GPR00: 0000000000000002 c000000002026d80 c0000000005168c8 fffffffffffffffe
> GPR04: 0000000000000000 000000000000001e fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000000
> GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 6db6db6db6db6db7 0000000001491000
> GPR12: c00000000058d000 c000000000464f80 0000000000000000 c000000002027780
> GPR16: c00000000300a0c8 0000000000000001 c0000000004d4dd0 c00000000297e868
> GPR20: c000000002720000 c000000002026ec0 0000000000000001 0000000000000003
> GPR24: 0000000000000000 c000000002720000 0000000000001000 0000000000000003
> GPR28: fffffffffffffffe c000000002a61000 c0000000004c2510 c0000000027f64b0
> NIP [c0000000000282f0] .memset+0x3c/0xfc
> LR [c0000000001c772c] .blk_rq_map_sg+0x154/0x1e8
> Call Trace:
> [c000000002026d80] [c0000000004d4ed8] 0xc0000000004d4ed8 (unreliable)
> [c000000002026e50] [c0000000002283d8] .do_viodasd_request+0xb4/0x448
> [c0000000020270a0] [c0000000001c8ddc] .__generic_unplug_device+0x54/0x6c
> [c000000002027120] [c0000000001ca438] .generic_unplug_device+0x30/0x78
> [c0000000020271b0] [c0000000001c5888] .blk_backing_dev_unplug+0x34/0x48
> [c000000002027230] [c0000000000cf75c] .block_sync_page+0x78/0x90
> [c0000000020272b0] [c000000000074d50] .sync_page+0x74/0x98
> [c000000002027330] [c000000000344538] .__wait_on_bit_lock+0x8c/0x110
> [c0000000020273d0] [c000000000074c94] .__lock_page+0x70/0x90
> [c0000000020274a0] [c0000000000758b4] .do_generic_mapping_read+0x248/0x47c
> [c0000000020275a0] [c000000000077644] .generic_file_aio_read+0x144/0x1d4
> [c000000002027680] [c0000000000a3ad8] .do_sync_read+0xc4/0x124
> [c000000002027820] [c0000000000a4350] .vfs_read+0xd8/0x1a4
> [c0000000020278c0] [c0000000000a965c] .kernel_read+0x38/0x5c
> [c000000002027960] [c0000000000aad18] .do_execve+0xe8/0x208
> [c000000002027a10] [c00000000000e0b4] .sys_execve+0x6c/0xf0
> [c000000002027ab0] [c000000000007540] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
> --- Exception: c01 at .kernel_execve+0x8/0x14
> LR = .run_init_process+0x28/0x40
> [c000000002027da0] [c0000000000b35ec] .sys_dup+0x2c/0x44 (unreliable)
> [c000000002027e20] [c000000000007fb4] .init_post+0xc4/0xe8
> [c000000002027ea0] [c000000000407978] .kernel_init+0x384/0x3b8
> [c000000002027f90] [c000000000020000] .kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68
> Instruction dump:
> 5084801e 7c850040 7884000e 7c001120 7c661b78 418400ac 41a2002c 7ca02850
> 409f000c 98860000 38c60001 409e000c <b0860000> 38c60002 409d000c 90860000
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> Rebooting in 180 seconds..
You need this, will remember to fix that up for the new branch as well.
diff --git a/drivers/block/viodasd.c b/drivers/block/viodasd.c
index e824b67..2ce3622 100644
--- a/drivers/block/viodasd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/viodasd.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ static int send_request(struct request *req)
d = req->rq_disk->private_data;
/* Now build the scatter-gather list */
+ memset(sg, 0, sizeof(sg));
nsg = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, sg);
nsg = dma_map_sg(d->dev, sg, nsg, direction);
--
Jens Axboe
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