linux-kernel - NVME timeout causing system hangs

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Message-ID: <3a3b2436-b6e0-1504-fe69-756380f373cc@scoopta.email>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:33:45 -0700
From:   Ashton Holmes <root@...opta.email>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: NVME timeout causing system hangs

When playing certain games on my PC dmesg will start spitting out NVME 
timeout messages, this eventually results in BTRFS throwing errors and 
remounting itself as read only. The drive passes smart's health check 
and works fine when not playing games. The really weird part is this 
will happen even if the game I'm playing isn't installed on that drive. 
I wanted to bisect this but it happens on every kernel version I've 
tried. I've attached my dmesg log. This was originally reported here 
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202633 but no response was 
ever given. In that report I state that 4.19.24 for whatever reason 
doesn't trigger this however that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. 
I've updated my UEFI since then, I wouldn't expect that to make a 
difference but I'm not sure what else would have changed that.

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