On 02/27/2017 06:19 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:30:30 -0800
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Something in SCSI in 4.11 broke booting on Hyper-V Generation 2 VM with 8 VCPU and 4G of memory.
>> Both Linus's current tree (4.11 pre-rc1) and linux-next fail in a similar manner. It looks like some error
>> in SCSI device detection because there is only a single device.
>>
>> The offending commit causing the regression is:
>>
>> $ git bisect bad
>> e9c787e65c0c36529745be47d490d998b4b6e589 is the first bad commit
>> commit e9c787e65c0c36529745be47d490d998b4b6e589
>> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>> Date: Mon Jan 2 21:55:26 2017 +0300
>>
>> scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request
>>
>> Rely on the new block layer functionality to allocate additional driver
>> specific data behind struct request instead of implementing it in SCSI
>> itѕelf.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
>>
>> :040000 040000 6ff016fcdae227efeb19c1c301b17ccd7ea35da6 70d79f99d9b79ecf4dccbe067fc697219f5c78da M drivers
>> :040000 040000 a672ff52df8b2c211b3f98cae4a88d8a96ccde0b 1aaaed7de0994f597c7f8290c722a0b4a7789429 M include
>>
>> I checked and tree is current and up to date and includes
>> commit ee5242360424b9b967454e9183767323d10cf985
>> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue Feb 21 10:04:55 2017 +0100
>>
>> scsi: zero per-cmd driver data before each I/O
>>
>> Kernel config is attached. It started with Ubuntu config, but then did localmodconfig and pruned
>> out unnecessary stuff.
>>
>
> This problem I am seeing looks like the one addressed by:
>
> Fixes: ee5242360424 ("scsi: zero per-cmd driver data before each I/O")
>
> but that is already in linux-next.
>
> Noticed another place where memset(of the data was being done not the extra bits.
> Tried this, but didn't fix it either...
Yeah, that fix is already in Linus's tree. But it does look like a replica of
what Dexuan reported. Out of curiosity, does it boot if you enable
CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT?
Christoph, looks like the previous fix wasn't complete...
--
Jens Axboe
