Le 24.11.2007 07:42, James Bottomley a écrit :
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 18:52 +0100, Laurent Riffard wrote:
>> Le 23.11.2007 12:38, Hannes Reinecke a écrit :
>>> Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>> Laurent Riffard wrote:
>>>>> Le 21.11.2007 23:41, Andrew Morton a écrit :
>>>>>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:45:22 +0100
>>>>>> Laurent Riffard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Le 21.11.2007 05:45, Andrew Morton a écrit :
>>>>>>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc3/2.6.24-rc3-mm1/
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My system hangs shortly after I logged in Gnome desktop. SysRq-W shows
>>>>>>> that a bunch of task are blocked in "D" state, they seem to wait for
>>>>>>> some I/O completion. I can try to hand-copy some data if requested.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I found these messages in dmesg:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ~$ grep -C2 end_request dmesg-2.6.24-rc3-mm1
>>>>>>> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>>>>>>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
>>>>>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 16460
>>>>>>> ReiserFS: sda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
>>>>>>> ReiserFS: sda7: using ordered data mode
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> ReiserFS: sda7: Using r5 hash to sort names
>>>>>>> sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
>>>>>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 19632
>>>>>>> sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
>>>>>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 40037363
>>>>>>> Adding 1048568k swap on /dev/mapper/vglinux1-lvswap. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1048568k
>>>>>>> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These errors occur *only* with 2.6.24-rc3-mm1, they are 100% reproducible.
>>>>>>> 2.6.24-rc3 and 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 are fine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe something is broken in pata_via driver ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could be - libata-reimplement-ata_acpi_cbl_80wire-using-ata_acpi_gtm_xfermask.patch
>>>>>> and pata_amd-pata_via-de-couple-programming-of-pio-mwdma-and-udma-timings.patch
>>>>>> touch pata_via.c.
>>>>> None of the above...
>>>>>
>>>>> I did a bisection, it spotted git-scsi-misc.patch.
>>>>> I just run 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 + revert-git-scsi-misc.patch, and it works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess commit 8655a546c83fc43f0a73416bbd126d02de7ad6c0 "[SCSI] Do not
>>>>> requeue requests if REQ_FAILFAST is set" is the real culprit. The other
>>>>> commits are touching documentation or drivers I don't use. I'll try
>>>>> to revert only this one this evening.
>> I can confirm : reverting commit 8655a546c83fc43f0a73416bbd126d02de7ad6c0
>> does fix the problem.
>>
>>>> Hmm. Weird. I'll have a look into it. Apparently I'll be returning an error where
>>>> I shouldn't. Checking ...
>>>>
>>> Ok, found it. We are blocking even special commands (ie requests with PREEMPT not set)
>>> when FAILFAST is set. Which is clearly wrong. The attached patch fixes this.
>> Sorry, it's not enough. 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 + your patch still hangs with I/O errors.
>
> I think the problem is the way we treat BLOCKED and QUIESCED (the latter
> is the state that the domain validation uses and which we cannot kill
> fastfail on). It's definitely wrong to kill fastfail requests when the
> state is QUIESCE.
>
> This patch (which is applied on top of Hannes original) separates the
> BLOCK and QUIESCE states correctly ... does this fix the problem?
No, it doesn't help... (2.6.24-rc3-mm1 + your patch still has problems)
> James
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> index 13e7e09..a7cf23a 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> @@ -1279,18 +1279,21 @@ int scsi_prep_state_check(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct request *req)
> "rejecting I/O to dead device\n");
> ret = BLKPREP_KILL;
> break;
> - case SDEV_QUIESCE:
> case SDEV_BLOCK:
> /*
> - * If the devices is blocked we defer normal commands.
> - */
> - if (!(req->cmd_flags & REQ_PREEMPT))
> - ret = BLKPREP_DEFER;
> - /*
> * Return failfast requests immediately
> */
> if (req->cmd_flags & REQ_FAILFAST)
> ret = BLKPREP_KILL;
> +
> + /* fall through */
> +
> + case SDEV_QUIESCE:
> + /*
> + * If the devices is blocked we defer normal commands.
> + */
> + if (!(req->cmd_flags & REQ_PREEMPT))
> + ret = BLKPREP_DEFER;
> break;
> default:
> /*
>
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