[PATCH 3/6] blk-merge: split bio by max_segment_size, not PAGE_SIZE

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Wed May 15 05:32:59 PDT 2024


On 5/15/24 14:29, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 5/15/24 02:20, John Garry wrote:
>> On 14/05/2024 11:38, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>> Bvecs can be larger than a page, and the block layer handles
>>> this just fine. So do not split by PAGE_SIZE but rather by
>>> the max_segment_size if that happens to be larger.
>> Can you check scsi_debug for this series? I took this series only up 
>> to this change, and got:
>>
>>      Startin[    1.736470] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> g Load [    1.737777] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 52 at block/blk-merge.c:581 
>> __blk_rq_map_sg+0x46a/0x480
>> Kernel Module fu[    1.738862] Modules linked in:
>> se...[    1.739370] CPU: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted 
>> 6.9.0-00002-g4eaa50af9312-dirty #2416
>>
>> [    1.740474] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), 
>> BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
>> [    1.741809] Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
>> [    1.742379] RIP: 0010:__blk_rq_map_sg+0x46a/0x480
>> [    1.742939] Code: 17 fe ff ff 44 89 58 0c 48 8b 01 e9 ec fc ff ff 
>> 43 8d 3c 06 48 8b 14 24 81 ff 00 10 00 00 0f 86 af fc ff ff e9 02 f0
>> [    1.743015] systemd[1]: File System Check on Root Device was 
>> skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionPathIsReadWrite=!/.
>> [    1.745122] RSP: 0018:ff37636e4032bb90 EFLAGS: 00010212
>> [    1.746419] systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: unit configures 
>> an IP firewall, but the local system does not support BPF/cgroup fi.
>> [    1.746891] RAX: 000000000000001c RBX: 00000000000001b0 RCX: 
>> ff28e6d8b0950a00
>> [    1.747903] systemd[1]: (This warning is only shown for the first 
>> unit using IP firewalling.)
>> [    1.748549] RDX: ff7662becb4ac482 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: 
>> 00000000fffffffd
>> [    1.749688] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
>> [    1.749895] RBP: ff7662becb4abf80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 
>> ff28e6d880fadd40
>> [    1.750965] R10: ff7662becb4ac480 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 
>> 0000000000000000
>> [    1.750966] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: 
>> ff7662becb4ac480
>> [    1.750970] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff28e6da75c00000(0000) 
>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [    1.750972] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> [    1.750973] CR2: 00007f7407f19000 CR3: 0000000100f24002 CR4: 
>> 0000000000771ef0
>> [    1.750974] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 
>> 0000000000000000
>> [    1.750975] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 
>> 0000000000000400
>> [    1.750976] PKRU: 55555554
>> [    1.750977] Call Trace:
>> [    1.750984]  <TASK>
>> [    1.750986]  ? __warn+0x7e/0x130
>> [    1.750992]  ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x46a/0x480
>> [    1.750994]  ? report_bug+0x18e/0x1a0
>> [    1.750999]  ? handle_bug+0x3d/0x70
>> [    1.751003]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x70
>> [    1.751006]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
>> [    1.751009]  ? __blk_rq_map_sg+0x46a/0x480
>> [    1.751012]  scsi_alloc_sgtables+0xb7/0x3f0
>> [    1.751019]  sd_init_command+0x177/0x9d0
>> [    1.751023]  scsi_queue_rq+0x7c1/0xae0
>> [    1.751027]  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x2bc/0x7c0
>> [    1.751031]  __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x409/0x5c0
>> [    1.751035]  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x2c/0x60
>> [    1.751037]  blk_mq_run_work_fn+0x5f/0x70
>> [    1.751039]  process_one_work+0x149/0x360
>>
>> I suspect that you would need to also change the PAGE_SIZE check in 
>> __blk_bios_map_sg() also. However, I am not confident that the change 
>> below is ok to begin with...
>>
>> BTW, scsi_debug does use an insane max_segment_size of -1
>>
> Can you try with this patch?
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
> index 570573d7a34f..5da63180069e 100644
> --- a/block/blk-merge.c
> +++ b/block/blk-merge.c
> @@ -278,7 +278,10 @@ struct bio *bio_split_rw(struct bio *bio, const 
> struct queue_limits *lim,
>          struct bio_vec bv, bvprv, *bvprvp = NULL;
>          struct bvec_iter iter;
>          unsigned nsegs = 0, bytes = 0;
> -       unsigned bv_seg_lim = max(PAGE_SIZE, lim->max_segment_size);
> +       unsigned bv_seg_lim = PAGE_SIZE;
> +
> +       if (lim->max_segment_size < UINT_MAX)
> +               bv_seg_lim = lim->max_segment_size;
> 
>          bio_for_each_bvec(bv, bio, iter) {
>                  /*
> 
Hmm. No, forget it. Working on another fix.

Cheers,

Hannes
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