[dm-devel] AMD-Vi IO_PAGE_FAULTs and ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED errors since Linux 4.0

[Mike Snitzer]

On Tue, Jul 28 2015 at  2:56pm -0400,
Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann at freenet.de> wrote:

> On 07/28/2015 at 07:50 PM Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28 2015 at  1:40pm -0400,
> > Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann at 01019freenet.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> After long and heavy bisecting, I found this commit
> >> "dm crypt: don't allocate pages for a partial request" [1] being the
> >> cause of the ata errors and AMD-Vi IO_PAGE_FAULTs.
> >>
> >> That's the bisect I did with Linus' repository
> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
> >>
> >>
> >> git bisect start
> >> # good: [3466b547e37b988723dc93465b7cb06b4b1f731f] Merge branches 'pnp',
> >> 'pm-cpuidle' and 'pm-cpufreq'
> >> git bisect good 3466b547e37b988723dc93465b7cb06b4b1f731f
> >> # bad: [cd50b70ccd5c87794ec28bfb87b7fba9961eb0ae] Merge tag
> >> 'pm+acpi-3.20-rc1-3' of
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
> >> git bisect bad cd50b70ccd5c87794ec28bfb87b7fba9961eb0ae
> >> # good: [27a22ee4c7d5839fd7e3e441c9d675c8a5c4c22c] Merge branch 'kbuild'
> >> of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
> >> git bisect good 27a22ee4c7d5839fd7e3e441c9d675c8a5c4c22c
> >> # good: [c189cb8ef62832f33b6cf757350a0270532a1ad8] Merge tag
> >> 'vfio-v3.20-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio
> >> git bisect good c189cb8ef62832f33b6cf757350a0270532a1ad8
> >> # good: [295324556c427d60b41668ab81a43f604533f456] Merge branch
> >> 'i2c/for-3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux
> >> git bisect good 295324556c427d60b41668ab81a43f604533f456
> >> # good: [1acd2de5facd7fbea499aea64a3a3d0ec7bb9b51] Merge branch
> >> 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
> >> git bisect good 1acd2de5facd7fbea499aea64a3a3d0ec7bb9b51
> >> # good: [fde9f50f80fe89a9115b4bfa773017272597d85d] target: Add sanity
> >> checks for DPO/FUA bit usage
> >>
> >> git bisect good fde9f50f80fe89a9115b4bfa773017272597d85d
> >>
> >>
> >> # bad: [22aa66a3ee5b61e0f4a0bfeabcaa567861109ec3] dm snapshot: fix a
> >> possible invalid memory access on unload
> >>
> >>
> >> git bisect bad 22aa66a3ee5b61e0f4a0bfeabcaa567861109ec3
> >>
> >>
> >> # bad: [7145c241a1bf2841952c3e297c4080b357b3e52d] dm crypt: avoid
> >> deadlock in mempools
> >>
> >>
> >> git bisect bad 7145c241a1bf2841952c3e297c4080b357b3e52d
> >>
> >>
> >> # good: [37527b869207ad4c208b1e13967d69b8bba1fbf9] dm io: reject
> >> unsupported DISCARD requests with EOPNOTSUPP
> >>
> >>
> >> git bisect good 37527b869207ad4c208b1e13967d69b8bba1fbf9
> >>
> >>
> >> # bad: [cf2f1abfbd0dba701f7f16ef619e4d2485de3366] dm crypt: don't
> >> allocate pages for a partial request
> >>
> >>
> >> git bisect bad cf2f1abfbd0dba701f7f16ef619e4d2485de3366
> >>
> >>
> >> # good: [f3396c58fd8442850e759843457d78b6ec3a9589] dm crypt: use unbound
> >> workqueue for request processing
> >>
> >> git bisect good f3396c58fd8442850e759843457d78b6ec3a9589
> >>
> >>
> >> # first bad commit: [cf2f1abfbd0dba701f7f16ef619e4d2485de3366] dm crypt:
> >> don't allocate pages for a partial request
> >>
> >>
> >> How can I verify (e.g. w/ a patch to Linux 4.0.9) if this patch is
> >> really the culprit?
> >>
> >> I'm heavily relying upon encryption:
> >>
> >> There are 3 disks:
> >> - One 240 GB SSD (crypted LVM, swap and boot partition)
> >> - Two SATA rotational 3 TB disks (WD ST3000DM001-1CH166, encrypted raid
> >>   /dev/md0, LVM)
> >> - All in all 29 logical volumes with xfs as filesystem (besides swap
> >>   and bootpartition - the latter is ext4).
> >>
> >> The system is based on an AMD FX8350 processor (8 core) w/ 24GB RAM.
> >> Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3. You can find a complete dmesg
> >> output here [2].
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I would be glad to get some assistance!
> > 
> > Are your SATA devcies using NCQ?
> > 
> > Please see this dm-devl thread (and this post in particular):
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00005.html
> 
> As suggested, I applied these commits
> 
> f3396c58fd8442850e759843457d78b6ec3a9589,
> cf2f1abfbd0dba701f7f16ef619e4d2485de3366,
> 7145c241a1bf2841952c3e297c4080b357b3e52d,
> 94f5e0243c48aa01441c987743dc468e2d6eaca2,
> dc2676210c425ee8e5cb1bec5bc84d004ddf4179,
> 0f5d8e6ee758f7023e4353cca75d785b2d4f6abe,
> b3c5fd3052492f1b8d060799d4f18be5a5438add
> 
> to 3.19.8 and the problem is exactly the same as described above.
> 
> I don't think that the problem is SSD related, because the ata3 error I
> can see belongs to the rotational disk (ata1 would be the SSD).
> 
> The git bisect you mentioned is already done: "dm crypt: don't allocate
> pages for a partial request" is the culprit.

Mikulas was saying to biect what is causing ATA to fail.

> Besides that: How can I disable ncq? Maybe a kernel patch, which
> prevents enabling it because I need it on bootup before the disks are
> accessed.

I already answered how, see my previous reply.