Re: about ll_rw_blk.c of void generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)

[Chris Caputo]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, erich wrote:
> I am so sorry that I reply this mail today.
> At 2006/4/3 my mother unexpectedly got paralysis and dead.
> I can not do any more "request testing" with this bug for some days.
> I do dump_stack as your request and attach it.
> And I do "fsck" before test this volume every time.
> It appears fine when do fsck with each testing volume.
> You can easily reproduce this bug from copy a 900MB file from ARECA volume
> (mkfs.ext2, mount -t ext2) to none ARECA volume.

Erich, my sincere condolences to you and your family.

With respect to this problem, is it possible with your driver that if a 
transfer read request is above a certain size, data corruption occurs?

It may be that fsck passes because it is doing smaller transfers while a 
file copy under ext2 (or in your example, ext3) fails because it is during 
those operations that the higher max_sectors makes a difference.

Curiously, the hex values of the "want=" field in your report are as 
follows:

  sdb1: rw=0, want=12126966488, limit=312496317
  2D2D2D2D8
  sdb1: rw=0, want=12126967088, limit=312496317
  2D2D2D530
  sdb1: rw=0, want=22232771288, limit=312496317
  52D2D2AD8
  sdb1: rw=0, want=22232771888, limit=312496317
  52D2D2D30

I wonder if 0x2D or 0xD2 corresponds to something on the disk such as in 
the file being copied or is otherwise familiar.

Chris
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