Hi,
Testing 4.13.5 out on my SGI Octane, I discovered that my RAID5 arrays were no
longer auto-assembling. The error being thrown was an "attempt to access
beyond the end of the device". I've hand-transcribed a block of these errors
from a manual attempt to assemble the array via mdadm from a netboot image:
/ # mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
[ 56.303339] md: md0 stopped.
[ 56.323565] md/raid:md0: device sda1 operational as raid disk 0
[ 56.334556] md/raid:md0: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 2
[ 56.345396] md/raid:md0: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 1
[ 56.350750] md/raid:md0: raid level 5 active with 3 out of 3 devices,
algorithm 2
[ 56.369529] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 56.380149] sda1: rw=2048, want=4194312, limit=4194305
[ 56.390823] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 56.401500] sdc1: rw=2048, want=4194312, limit=4194305
[ 56.412313] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 56.423146] sdb1: rw=2048, want=4194312, limit=4194305
[ 56.433985] md0: failed to create bitmap (-5)
mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0: input/output error
[ 56.457979] md: md0 stopped.
/ #
I've traced the offending commit down to 8031c3ddc70a ("md/bitmap: copy correct
data for bitmap super"):
https://git.linux-mips.org/cgit/ralf/linux.git/commit/?id=8031c3ddc70ab93099e7d1814382dba39f57b43e
Per the commit message, it makes an assumption that PAGE_SIZE is 4K. MIPS
kernels allow you to change the value of PAGE_SIZE at compile time to something
other than 4K. It appears that 4K and 16K both work, while 64K, which is what
I use on this machine, is broken with this commit applied.
Reverting this patch or setting PAGE_SIZE to 4K or 16K will resolve the issue,
but there are advantages to using 64K PAGE_SIZEs on these platforms. I am not
sure that 16K is wholly safe either, FWIW, given the assumption made in the commit.
Thoughts?
--
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@xxxxxxxxxx
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