On Fri, 2023-08-04 at 20:39 +0200, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> Gentle ping!
>
> Dan, Vishal for suggestion/review on this patch and request for merging.
> +Cc Michael for awareness, as virtio-pmem device is currently broken.
Looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Dave, will you queue this for 6.6.
>
> Thanks,
> Pankaj
>
> > From: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When doing mkfs.xfs on a pmem device, the following warning was
> > reported:
> >
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 384 at block/blk-core.c:751 submit_bio_noacct
> > Modules linked in:
> > CPU: 2 PID: 384 Comm: mkfs.xfs Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #154
> > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> > RIP: 0010:submit_bio_noacct+0x340/0x520
> > ......
> > Call Trace:
> > <TASK>
> > ? submit_bio_noacct+0xd5/0x520
> > submit_bio+0x37/0x60
> > async_pmem_flush+0x79/0xa0
> > nvdimm_flush+0x17/0x40
> > pmem_submit_bio+0x370/0x390
> > __submit_bio+0xbc/0x190
> > submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x14d/0x370
> > submit_bio_noacct+0x1ef/0x520
> > submit_bio+0x55/0x60
> > submit_bio_wait+0x5a/0xc0
> > blkdev_issue_flush+0x44/0x60
> >
> > The root cause is that submit_bio_noacct() needs bio_op() is either
> > WRITE or ZONE_APPEND for flush bio and async_pmem_flush() doesn't assign
> > REQ_OP_WRITE when allocating flush bio, so submit_bio_noacct just fail
> > the flush bio.
> >
> > Simply fix it by adding the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio. And we
> > could fix the flush order issue and do flush optimization later.
> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.3+
> > Fixes: b4a6bb3a67aa ("block: add a sanity check for non-write flush/fua bios")
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v4:
> > * add stable Cc
> > * collect Rvb and Tested-by tags
> >
> > v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20230625022633.2753877-1-houtao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > * adjust the overly long lines in both commit message and code
> >
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20230621134340.878461-1-houtao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > * do a minimal fix first (Suggested by Christoph)
> >
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZJLpYMC8FgtZ0k2k@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
> >
> > drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c
> > index c6a648fd8744..1f8c667c6f1e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c
> > @@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ int async_pmem_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region, struct bio *bio)
> > * parent bio. Otherwise directly call nd_region flush.
> > */
> > if (bio && bio->bi_iter.bi_sector != -1) {
> > - struct bio *child = bio_alloc(bio->bi_bdev, 0, REQ_PREFLUSH,
> > + struct bio *child = bio_alloc(bio->bi_bdev, 0,
> > + REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH,
> > GFP_ATOMIC);
> >
> > if (!child)
> > --
> > 2.29.2
> >
