Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc6-2450cf in scsi_lib.c (was: Large amount ofscsi-sgpool)objects

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 05 2009, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > Oops, somehow I forgot to CC Jens...
> > 
> > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:39:17 +0900
> > FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:36:13 +0900
> > > FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > CC'ed Jens,
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:56:29 +0000
> > > > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 22:45 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Instrumented the code and the result of the failing request is
> > > > > > below. Looks like the function which sets up the request gets
> > > > > > nr_phys_segments wrong by one. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > If you need further trace data feel free to ask.
> > > > > 
> > > > > OK, the mapping all checks out correctly ... there must be something
> > > > > wrong with the way we count before mapping.
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, looks we miscalculate nr_phys_segments in the merging path.
> > > > 
> > > > blk_recount_segments() needs to set bi_seg_front_size and
> > > > bi_seg_back_size for ll_merge_requests_fn()?
> > > > 
> > > > =
> > > > diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
> > > > index a104593..efb65b6 100644
> > > > --- a/block/blk-merge.c
> > > > +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
> > > > @@ -111,12 +111,19 @@ void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq)
> > > >  
> > > >  void blk_recount_segments(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
> > > >  {
> > > > +	unsigned int seg_size;
> > > >  	struct bio *nxt = bio->bi_next;
> > > >  
> > > >  	bio->bi_next = NULL;
> > > > -	bio->bi_phys_segments = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(q, bio, NULL);
> > > > +	bio->bi_phys_segments = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(q, bio, &seg_size);
> > > >  	bio->bi_next = nxt;
> > > >  	bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_SEG_VALID);
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (bio->bi_phys_segments == 1 && seg_size > bio->bi_seg_front_size)
> > > > +		bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size;
> > > > +	if (bio->bi_phys_segments > bio->bi_seg_back_size)
> > > > +		bio->bi_seg_back_size = seg_size;
> > > > +
> > > >  }
> > > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_recount_segments);
> > > 
> > > Duh, here's the proper patch.
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
> > > index a104593..06e0db4 100644
> > > --- a/block/blk-merge.c
> > > +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
> > > @@ -111,12 +111,19 @@ void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq)
> > >  
> > >  void blk_recount_segments(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
> > >  {
> > > +	unsigned int seg_size;
> > >  	struct bio *nxt = bio->bi_next;
> > >  
> > >  	bio->bi_next = NULL;
> > > -	bio->bi_phys_segments = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(q, bio, NULL);
> > > +	bio->bi_phys_segments = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(q, bio, &seg_size);
> > >  	bio->bi_next = nxt;
> > >  	bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_SEG_VALID);
> > > +
> > > +	if (bio->bi_phys_segments == 1 && seg_size > bio->bi_seg_front_size)
> > > +		bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size;
> > > +	if (seg_size > bio->bi_seg_back_size)
> > > +		bio->bi_seg_back_size = seg_size;
> > > +
> > >  }
> > >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_recount_segments);
> 
> Good catch, I merged it with a slight change of layout and 
> clearing seg_size initially, to avoid gcc silly errors.

thanks Jens for the super-quick action! I have tried the v2 
patch from Fujita and it's OK in -tip testing so far, on various 
pieces of x86 hardware with different storage systems - ata, 
sata, aic7xxx, etc.

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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