linux-kernel - Re: IO errors after "block: remove bio_get_nr

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Message-ID: <4d744f3cc62211dc2fcbfcf88566e3e0@lycos.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:36:50 +0500
From:	"Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@...os.com>
To:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Cc:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Ming Lin <ming.l@....samsung.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	"Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@...lcity.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, IDE-ML <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: IO errors after "block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()"

On 2015-12-21 08:21, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
>> # cat
>> /sys/block/sda/queue/{max_hw_sectors_kb,max_sectors_kb,max_segments,max_segment_size}
>> 32767
>> 32767
>> 168
>> 65536
> 
> Looks it is fine, then maybe it is related with 
> BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE(),
> BIOVEC_SEG_BOUNDARY() or sort of thing, because dma_addr_t and
> phys_addr_t turn to 64-bit with PAE, but 'unsigned long' and 'void *'
> is still 32bit.
> 
> It was confirmed that there isn't the issue if PAE is disabled.
> 
> Dumping both sata/ahci hw sg table and bio's bvec might be helpful.

Um, sorry, what exact variables/files do you want to see? I'm not an 
expert in /sys.

> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>> 
>> oy vey. WTF's been happening in blk-merge.c?
>> 
>> Theyy're not the same bug. The bug in your thread was introduced by 
>> Jens in
>> 5014c311ba "block: fix bogus compiler warnings in blk-merge.c", where 
>> he screwed
>> up the bvprv handling - but that patch comes after the patch Artem 
>> bisected to.
>> 
>> blk_bio_segment_split() looks correct in b54ffb73ca.
> 
> Yes, that is why reverting 578270bfb(block: fix segment split) can make 
> the
> issue disappear, because 5014c311ba "block: fix bogus compiler
> warnings in blk-merge.c" basically disables sg-merge and prevents the
> issue from being
> triggered.

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