linux-kernel - Re: bio linked list corruption.

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxqRCEVxocpZVDMqinP=EsmgzcnvWpOT6x8NMmcBpWb2Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:08:08 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:     Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: bio linked list corruption.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com> wrote:
>
> Actually, I think I see what might trigger it. You are on nvme, iirc,
> and that has a deep queue.

Yes. I have long since moved on from slow disks, so all my systems are
not just flash, but m.2 nvme ssd's.

So at least that could explain why Dave sees it at bootup but I don't.

            Linus