Re: linux-next: Boot hangs 3 minutes with device mapper on s390

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Am Fri, 1 Mar 2019 13:30:50 -0500
schrieb Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Fri, Mar 01 2019 at 12:33pm -0500,
> Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > On Fedora 29, the following "linux-next" commit introduced a regression on s390:
> > 
> >   commit 1efa3bb79d3de8ca1b7f6770313a1fc0bebe25c7
> >   Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >   Date:   Fri Feb 22 11:23:01 2019 -0500
> > 
> >     dm: must allocate dm_noclone for stacked noclone devices
> >     
> >     Otherwise various lvm2 testsuite tests fail because the lower layers of
> >     the stacked noclone device aren't updated to allocate a new 'struct
> >     dm_clone' that reflects the upper layer bio that was issued to it.
> >     
> >     Fixes: 97a89458020b38 ("dm: improve noclone bio support")
> >     Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > With this commit the boot hangs three minutes on a z/VM system with the
> > following device mapper setup:
> > 
> > # dmsetup ls --tree
> > mpathe (252:5)
> >  ├─ (8:128)
> >  └─ (8:144)
> > mpathd (252:4)
> >  ├─ (8:96)
> >  └─ (8:112)
> > mpathc (252:3)
> >  ├─ (8:64)
> >  └─ (8:80)
> > mpathb (252:2)
> >  ├─ (8:32)
> >  └─ (8:48)
> > mpatha1 (252:1)
> >  └─mpatha (252:0)
> >     ├─ (8:16)
> >     └─ (8:0)
> > 
> > On the console we get messages like the following:
> > 
> >    10.116863 sd 3:0:0:1083719813: sdj Write Protect is off 
> >    10.117170 sd 3:0:0:1083719813: sdj Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA 
> >    10.130562 sd 3:0:0:1083719813: sdj Attached SCSI disk 
> >  A start job is running for udev Wai   Device Initialization (6s / 3min)
> >  A start job is running for udev Wai   Device Initialization (6s / 3min)
> >  A start job is running for udev Wai   Device Initialization (7s / 3min)
> >  A start job is running for udev Wai   Device Initialization (7s / 3min)
> >  A start job is running for udev Wai   Device Initialization (8s / 3min)
> >  ...
> > 
> > After three minutes the boot process continues and the system comes.
> > 
> > As kernel config we used "performance_defconfig" (make performance_defconfig).
> 
> I'm struggling to see why this particular change would cause such a boot
> stall -- but then resolve itself.
> 
> Can you provide the output from 'dmsetup table'?

# dmsetup table
mpathe: 0 41943040 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 1 alua 1 1 service-time 0 2 2 8:64 1 1 8:128 1 1 
mpathd: 0 41943040 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 1 alua 1 1 service-time 0 2 2 8:48 1 1 8:112 1 1 
mpathc: 0 41943040 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 1 alua 1 1 service-time 0 2 2 8:32 1 1 8:96 1 1 
mpathb: 0 41943040 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 1 alua 1 1 service-time 0 2 2 8:16 1 1 8:80 1 1 
mpatha: 0 209715200 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 1 alua 1 1 service-time 0 1 2 8:0 1 1 
mpatha1: 0 209713152 linear 252:0 2048

 
> Multipath defaults to blk-mq (request-based).  The change you've called
> into question is related to bio-based DM.  So There must be some
> bio-based DM layer ontop of the multipath devices.  Is mpatha1 a
> dm-linear device layered ontop of multipath?

See above output of "dmsetup table".

Best Regards,
Michael


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