Re: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 207 at drivers/nvme/host/core.c:527 nvme_setup_cmd+0x3d3

Jens Axboe
2018-02-01T03:35:47Z

On 1/31/18 8:33 PM, jianchao.wang wrote:
> Sorry, Jens, I think I didn't get the point.
> Do I miss anything ?
>
> On 02/01/2018 11:07 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Yeah I agree, and my last patch missed that we do care about segments for
>> discards. Below should be better...
>>
>> diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
>> index 8452fc7164cc..055057bd727f 100644
>> --- a/block/blk-merge.c
>> +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
>> @@ -553,9 +553,8 @@ static bool req_no_special_merge(struct request *req)
>> static int ll_merge_requests_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
>> struct request *next)
>> {
>> - int total_phys_segments;
>> - unsigned int seg_size =
>> - req->biotail->bi_seg_back_size + next->bio->bi_seg_front_size;
>> + int total_phys_segments = req->nr_phys_segments +
>> + next->nr_phys_segments;
>
> For DISCARD reqs, the total_phys_segments is still zero here.

This seems broken, it should count the ranges in the discard request.

>> @@ -574,8 +573,15 @@ static int ll_merge_requests_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
>> blk_rq_get_max_sectors(req, blk_rq_pos(req)))
>> return 0;
>>
>> - total_phys_segments = req->nr_phys_segments + next->nr_phys_segments;
>> - if (blk_phys_contig_segment(q, req->biotail, next->bio)) {
>> + /*
>> + * If the requests aren't carrying any data payloads, we don't need
>> + * to look at the segment count
>> + */
>> + if (bio_has_data(next->bio) &&
>> + blk_phys_contig_segment(q, req->biotail, next->bio)) {
>> + unsigned int seg_size = req->biotail->bi_seg_back_size +
>> + next->bio->bi_seg_front_size;
>
> Yes, total_phys_segments will not be decreased.
>
>> +
>> if (req->nr_phys_segments == 1)
>> req->bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size;
>> if (next->nr_phys_segments == 1)
>> @@ -584,7 +590,7 @@ static int ll_merge_requests_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
>> }
>>
>> if (total_phys_segments > queue_max_segments(q))
>> - return 0;
>> + return 0;
>>
>> if (blk_integrity_merge_rq(q, req, next) == false)
>> return 0;
>
> But finally, the merged DISCARD req's nr_phys_segment is still zero.
>
> blk_rq_nr_discard_segments will return 1 but this req has two bios.
> blk_rq_nr_discard_segments 's comment says

They should have the range count. The discard merge stuff is a bit of
a hack, it would be nice to get that improved.

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Jens Axboe