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Some users see panics like the following when performing fstrim on a bcached volume: [ 529.803060] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 [ 530.183928] #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] [ 530.412392] PGD 8000001f42163067 P4D 8000001f42163067 PUD 1f42168067 PMD 0 [ 530.750887] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 530.920869] CPU: 10 PID: 4167 Comm: fstrim Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #3 [ 531.290204] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9/ProLiant DL360 Gen9, BIOS P89 12/27/2015 [ 531.693137] RIP: 0010:blk_queue_split+0x148/0x620 [ 531.922205] Code: 60 38 89 55 a0 45 31 db 45 31 f6 45 31 c9 31 ff 89 4d 98 85 db 0f 84 7f 04 00 00 44 8b 6d 98 4c 89 ee 48 c1 e6 04 49 03 70 78 <8b> 46 08 44 8b 56 0c 48 8b 16 44 29 e0 39 d8 48 89 55 a8 0f 47 c3 [ 532.838634] RSP: 0018:ffffb9b708df39b0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 533.093571] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000046000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 533.441865] RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 533.789922] RBP: ffffb9b708df3a48 R08: ffff940d3b3fdd20 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 534.137512] R10: ffffb9b708df3958 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 534.485329] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff940d39212020 [ 534.833319] FS: 00007efec26e3840(0000) GS:ffff940d1f480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 535.224098] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 535.504318] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000001f4e256004 CR4: 00000000001606e0 [ 535.851759] Call Trace: [ 535.970308] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 [ 536.174152] ? bch_data_insert+0x42/0xd0 [bcache] [ 536.403399] blk_mq_make_request+0x97/0x4f0 [ 536.607036] generic_make_request+0x1e2/0x410 [ 536.819164] submit_bio+0x73/0x150 [ 536.980168] ? submit_bio+0x73/0x150 [ 537.149731] ? bio_associate_blkg_from_css+0x3b/0x60 [ 537.391595] ? _cond_resched+0x1a/0x50 [ 537.573774] submit_bio_wait+0x59/0x90 [ 537.756105] blkdev_issue_discard+0x80/0xd0 [ 537.959590] ext4_trim_fs+0x4a9/0x9e0 [ 538.137636] ? ext4_trim_fs+0x4a9/0x9e0 [ 538.324087] ext4_ioctl+0xea4/0x1530 [ 538.497712] ? _copy_to_user+0x2a/0x40 [ 538.679632] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa6/0x600 [ 538.853127] ? __do_sys_newfstat+0x44/0x70 [ 539.051951] ksys_ioctl+0x6d/0x80 [ 539.212785] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x20 [ 539.394918] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110 [ 539.568674] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 We have observed it where both: 1) LVM/devmapper is involved (bcache backing device is LVM volume) and 2) writeback cache is involved (bcache cache_mode is writeback) On one machine, we can reliably reproduce it with: # echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache_mode (not sure whether above line is required) # mount /dev/bcache0 /test # for i in {0..10}; do file="$(mktemp /test/zero.XXX)" dd if=/dev/zero of="$file" bs=1M count=256 sync rm $file done # fstrim -v /test Observing this with tracepoints on, we see the following writes: fstrim-18019 [022] .... 91107.302026: bcache_write: 73f95583-561c-408f-a93a-4cbd2498f5c8 inode 0 DS 4260112 + 196352 hit 0 bypass 1 fstrim-18019 [022] .... 91107.302050: bcache_write: 73f95583-561c-408f-a93a-4cbd2498f5c8 inode 0 DS 4456464 + 262144 hit 0 bypass 1 fstrim-18019 [022] .... 91107.302075: bcache_write: 73f95583-561c-408f-a93a-4cbd2498f5c8 inode 0 DS 4718608 + 81920 hit 0 bypass 1 fstrim-18019 [022] .... 91107.302094: bcache_write: 73f95583-561c-408f-a93a-4cbd2498f5c8 inode 0 DS 5324816 + 180224 hit 0 bypass 1 fstrim-18019 [022] .... 91107.302121: bcache_write: 73f95583-561c-408f-a93a-4cbd2498f5c8 inode 0 DS 5505040 + 262144 hit 0 bypass 1 fstrim-18019 [022] .... 91107.302145: bcache_write: 73f95583-561c-408f-a93a-4cbd2498f5c8 inode 0 DS 5767184 + 81920 hit 0 bypass 1 fstrim-18019 [022] .... 91107.308777: bcache_write: 73f95583-561c-408f-a93a-4cbd2498f5c8 inode 0 DS 6373392 + 180224 hit 1 bypass 0 <crash> Note the final one has different hit/bypass flags. This is because in should_writeback(), we were hitting a case where the partial stripe condition was returning true and so should_writeback() was returning true early. If that hadn't been the case, it would have hit the would_skip test, and as would_skip == s->iop.bypass == true, should_writeback() would have returned false. Looking at the git history from 'commit |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.