Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 3 authors, 2018-02-01

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

From: jianchao.wang <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-01 03:03:01
Also in: linux-nvme

Hi Jens


On 01/31/2018 11:29 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
How about something like the below?

diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 8452fc7164cc..cee102fb060e 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -574,8 +574,13 @@ 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;
 
+	/*
+	 * For DISCARDs, the segment count isn't interesting since
+	 * the requests have no data attached.
+	 */
 	total_phys_segments = req->nr_phys_segments + next->nr_phys_segments;
-	if (blk_phys_contig_segment(q, req->biotail, next->bio)) {
+	if (total_phys_segments &&
+	    blk_phys_contig_segment(q, req->biotail, next->bio)) {
 		if (req->nr_phys_segments == 1)
 			req->bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size;
 		if (next->nr_phys_segments == 1)
This patch will avoid the nr_phys_segments to be set to 0xffff,
but the merged req will have two bios but zero nr_phys_segments.

We have to align with the DISCARD merging strategy.

Please refer to:
/*
 * Number of discard segments (or ranges) the driver needs to fill in.
 * Each discard bio merged into a request is counted as one segment.
 */
static inline unsigned short blk_rq_nr_discard_segments(struct request *rq)
{
       return max_t(unsigned short, rq->nr_phys_segments, 1);
}
bool bio_attempt_discard_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req,
		struct bio *bio)
{
	unsigned short segments = blk_rq_nr_discard_segments(req);

	if (segments >= queue_max_discard_segments(q))
		goto no_merge;
	if (blk_rq_sectors(req) + bio_sectors(bio) >
	    blk_rq_get_max_sectors(req, blk_rq_pos(req)))
		goto no_merge;

	req->biotail->bi_next = bio;
	req->biotail = bio;
	req->__data_len += bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
	req->ioprio = ioprio_best(req->ioprio, bio_prio(bio));
	req->nr_phys_segments = segments + 1;

	blk_account_io_start(req, false);
	return true;
no_merge:
	req_set_nomerge(q, req);
	return false;
}

blk_rq_nr_discard_segments will get a wrong value finally.

Maybe we could change blk_rq_nr_discard_segments to iterate and count the bios in one request
to decide the DISCARD request nr_phy_segment. And discard the nr_phys_segments operations in
the DISCARD merging path, plus your patch here.

Thanks
Jianchao

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