Re: [PATCH V15 14/18] block: enable multipage bvecs

Jon Hunter
2019-02-28T12:39:10Z

On 28/02/2019 07:51, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Ming,
>
> On 2019-02-28 00:29, Ming Lei wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:47:09PM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>> On 21/02/2019 08:42, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>>> On 2019-02-15 12:13, Ming Lei wrote:
>>>>> This patch pulls the trigger for multi-page bvecs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
>>>> Since Linux next-20190218 I've observed problems with block layer on one
>>>> of my test devices (Odroid U3 with EXT4 rootfs on SD card). Bisecting
>>>> this issue led me to this change. This is also the first linux-next
>>>> release with this change merged. The issue is fully reproducible and can
>>>> be observed in the following kernel log:
>>>>
>>>> sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
>>>> sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
>>>> s3c-sdhci 12530000.sdhci: clock source 2: mmc_busclk.2 (100000000 Hz)
>>>> s3c-sdhci 12530000.sdhci: Got CD GPIO
>>>> mmc0: SDHCI controller on samsung-hsmmc [12530000.sdhci] using ADMA
>>>> mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address aaaa
>>>> mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SL16G 14.8 GiB
>>> I have also noticed some failures when writing to an eMMC device on one
>>> of our Tegra boards. We have a simple eMMC write/read test and it is
>>> currently failing because the data written does not match the source.
>>>
>>> I did not seem the same crash as reported here, however, in our case the
>>> rootfs is NFS mounted and so probably would not. However, the bisect
>>> points to this commit and reverting on top of -next fixes the issues.
>> It is sdhci, probably related with max segment size, could you test the
>> following patch:
>>
>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-mmc&m=155128334122951&w=2
>
> This seems to be fixing my issue too! Thanks!

Thanks, I can confirm this fixes the issue for Tegra. So feel free to
add my ...

Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>

Cheers!
Jon

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