linux-kernel - Re: New warning in nvme_setup

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:12:03 +0200
From:   Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        David Jeffery <djeffery@...hat.com>,
        Laurence Oberman <loberman@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: New warning in nvme_setup_discard

Hello.

On středa 21. července 2021 10:00:56 CEST Ming Lei wrote:
> > I'm still hammering v5.14-rc2 + your patch, and I cannot reproduce the
> > issue. Given I do not have a reliable reproducer (I'm just firing up the
> > kernel build, and the issue pops up eventually, sooner or later, but
> > usually within a couple of first tries), for how long I should hammer it
> > for your fix to be considered proven?
> 
> You mentioned that the issue is reproducible with v5.14-rc, that means
> it can be always reproduced in limited time(suppose it is A). If the issue
> can't be reproduced any more after applying the patch in long enough time
> B(B >> A), we can think it is fixed by the patch.
> 
> For example, if A is one hour, we can set B as 5*A or bigger to simulate
> the long enough time.

With your patch the issue is still not reproducible for me. Hence, from my 
side the patch looks to be verified.

Thanks.

-- 
Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)