Re: [PATCH] Chaining sg lists for big IO commands v5

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Fri, May 18 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:35 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 16 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:50 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, May 15 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:20 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Tue, May 15 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:51 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > > Updated version of the patch - this time I'll just attach the patch
> > > > > > > > > > file...
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Missing scatterlist.h inclusions..
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c: In function ???sym_scatter???:
> > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c:385: warning: implicit declaration
> > > > > > > > > of function ???for_each_sg???
> > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c:385: error: expected ???;??? before ???{???
> > > > > > > > > token
> > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c:375: warning: unused variable ???tp???
> > > > > > > > > make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.o] Error 1
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c: In function ???qla24xx_build_scsi_iocbs???:
> > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c:678: warning: implicit declaration of
> > > > > > > > > function ???for_each_sg???
> > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c:678: error: expected ???;??? before ???{???
> > > > > > > > > token
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Thanks, will fix those. What arch? I tested it here.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I am playing with them on ppc64.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Ah ok, you need the updated patch series for ppc64 support. Builds fine
> > > > > > here on ppc64. See the #sglist branch of the block repo:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block.git
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I can mail you an updated patch, if you want.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here is the whole panic stack..
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks will fix that up, the IDE part is totally untested. Can you try
> > > > and backout this patch and see if it boots?
> > > 
> > > I increased max_segments to 1024 on my qla2200 attached disks and
> > > simple "dd" (direct read) resulted in following:
> > > 
> > > elm3b29:/sys/block/sdd/queue # echo 1024 > max_segments
> > > elm3b29:/sys/block/sdd/queue # cat max_hw_sectors_kb > max_sectors_kb
> > > elm3b29:/mnt # dd iflag=direct if=./z of=/dev/null bs=512M
> > > 
> > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001008 RIP:
> > >  [<ffffffff8025e7af>] __rmqueue+0x6f/0x120
> > 
> > Auch, that's a bug. I don't think the oom path has been tested yet,
> > perhaps this is hitting it.
> > 
> > Can you try with this debug patch, plus enable the slab debugging
> > helpers (like poisoning)?
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> > index 7456992..a479d1e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> > @@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ struct scatterlist *scsi_alloc_sgtable(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> >  	return ret;
> >  enomem:
> >  	if (ret) {
> > +		printk(KERN_ERR "scsi: failed to allocate sg table\n");
> >  		/*
> >  		 * Free entries chained off ret. Since we were trying to
> >  		 * allocate another sglist, we know that all entries are of
> > 
> 
> Not much help. I get all kinds of weird panics.. This time I got (with
> the above debug).
> 
> general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP
> CPU 1
> Modules linked in: jfs sg sd_mod qla2xxx firmware_class
> scsi_transport_fc scsi_mod vfat fat ipv6 thermal processor fan button
> battery ac dm_mod floppy parport_pc lp parport
> Pid: 56, comm: kblockd/1 Not tainted 2.6.22-rc1-sg #8
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802816b6>]  [<ffffffff802816b6>] kmem_cache_alloc
> +0x36/0x70
> RSP: 0018:ffff81017abbfc10  EFLAGS: 00010002
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000082 RCX: 0600000000000064
> RDX: ffff81019ff2b8a0 RSI: 0000000000011220 RDI: ffffffff8068d120
> RBP: ffff81017abbfc20 R08: 00000000000039f8 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: ffff81019cbee700 R11: 0000000000000188 R12: ffff8101df2a64e0
> R13: 0000000000011220 R14: ffff8101df2a6510 R15: ffff81017abbfc50
> FS:  00002b505b027f20(0000) GS:ffff81018021f300(0000)
> knlGS:00000000f7da26b0
> CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 00002b505b029008 CR3: 000000019af73000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> Process kblockd/1 (pid: 56, threadinfo ffff81017abbe000, task
> ffff81017a571440)
> Stack:  000000007abbfc30 0000000000000000 ffff81017abbfc30
> ffffffff8025d001
>  ffff81017abbfcb0 ffffffff8025d122 ffff81017abbfc60 ffffffff80219dc0
>  ffffffff880e5da6 00000000000000ad ffff81017abbfcd0 ffffffff8021a366
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8025d001>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x11/0x20
>  [<ffffffff8025d122>] mempool_alloc+0x42/0x110
>  [<ffffffff80219dc0>] flush_gart+0x40/0x50
>  [<ffffffff880e5da6>] :scsi_mod:__scsi_get_command+0x26/0x90
>  [<ffffffff8021a366>] gart_map_sg+0x2d6/0x3e0

Smells like a bug in the gart modifications, I'll double check them.
Does it work if you boot with iommu=off?

-- 
Jens Axboe