Re: [Possible REGRESSION, 4.16-rc4] Error updating SMART data during runtime and could not connect to lvmetad at some boot attempts

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Hans.

Hans de Goede - 18.03.18, 22:34:
> On 14-03-18 13:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hans de Goede - 14.03.18, 12:05:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> On 14-03-18 12:01, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >>> Hans de Goede - 11.03.18, 15:37:
> >>>> Hi Martin,
> >>>> 
> >>>> On 11-03-18 09:20, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >>>>> Hello.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Since 4.16-rc4 (upgraded from 4.15.2 which worked) I have an issue
> >>>>> with SMART checks occassionally failing like this:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> smartd[28017]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], is in SLEEP mode, suspending
> >>>>> checks
> >>>>> udisksd[24408]: Error performing housekeeping for drive
> >>>>> /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/INTEL_SSDSA2CW300G3_[â]: Error
> >>>>> updating
> >>>>> SMART data: Error sending ATA command CHECK POWER MODE: Unexpected
> >>>>> sense
> >>>>> data returned:#0120000: 0e 09 0c 00  00 00 ff 00  00 00 00 00  00 00
> >>>>> 50
> >>>>> 00    ..............P.#0120010: 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
> >>>>> 00
> >>>>> 00 00 00    ................#012 (g-io-error-quark, 0) merkaba
> >>>>> udisksd[24408]: Error performing housekeeping for drive
> >>>>> /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Crucial_CT480M500SSD3_[â]: Error
> >>>>> updating
> >>>>> SMART dat a: Error sending ATA command CHECK POWER MODE: Unexpected
> >>>>> sense
> >>>>> data returned:#0120000: 01 00 1d 00  00 00 0e 09  0c 00 00 00  ff 00
> >>>>> 00
> >>>>> 00    ................#0120010: 00 0 0 00 00  50 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
> >>>>> 00 00 00 00    ....P...........#012 (g-io-error-quark, 0)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> (Intel SSD is connected via SATA, Crucial via mSATA in a ThinkPad
> >>>>> T520)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> However when I then check manually with smartctl -a | -x | -H the
> >>>>> device
> >>>>> reports SMART data just fine.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> As smartd correctly detects that device is in sleep mode, this may be
> >>>>> an
> >>>>> userspace issue in udisksd.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Also at some boot attempts the boot hangs with a message like "could
> >>>>> not
> >>>>> connect to lvmetad, scanning manually for devices". I use BTRFS RAID 1
> >>>>> on to LVs (each on one of the SSDs). A configuration that requires a
> >>>>> manual
> >>>>> adaption to InitRAMFS in order to boot (basically vgchange -ay before
> >>>>> btrfs device scan).
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I wonder whether that has to do with the new SATA LPM policy stuff,
> >>>>> but
> >>>>> as
> >>>>> I had issues with
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 3 => Medium power with Device Initiated PM enabled
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> (machine did not boot, which could also have been caused by me
> >>>>> accidentally
> >>>>> removing all TCP/IP network support in the kernel with that setting)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I set it back to
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> CONFIG_SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY=0
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> (firmware settings)
> >>>> 
> >>>> Right, so at that settings the LPM policy changes are effectively
> >>>> disabled and cannot explain your SMART issues.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Still I would like to zoom in on this part of your bug report, because
> >>>> for Fedora 28 we are planning to ship with
> >>>> CONFIG_SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY=3
> >>>> and AFAIK Ubuntu has similar plans.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I suspect that the issue you were seeing with
> >>>> CONFIG_SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY=3 were with the Crucial disk ? I've
> >>>> attached
> >>>> a patch for you to test, which disabled LPM for your model Crucial SSD
> >>>> (but
> >>>> keeps it on for the Intel disk) if you can confirm that with that patch
> >>>> you
> >>>> can run with
> >>>> CONFIG_SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY=3 without issues that would be great.
> >>> 
> >>> With 4.16-rc5 with CONFIG_SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY=3 the system
> >>> successfully
> >>> booted three times in a row. So feel free to add tested-by.
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> To be clear, you're talking about 4.16-rc5 with the patch I made to
> >> blacklist the Crucial disk I assume, not just plain 4.16-rc5, right ?
> > 
> > 4.16-rc5 with your
> > 
> > 0001-libata-Apply-NOLPM-quirk-to-Crucial-M500-480GB-SSDs.patch
> 
> I was about to submit this upstream and was planning on extending it to
> also cover the 960GB version, which lead to me doing a quick google.
> Judging from the google results it seems that there are multiple firmware
> versions of this SSD out there and I wonder if you are perhaps running
> an older version of the firmware. If you do:
> 
> dmesg | grep Crucial_CT480M500
> 
> You should see something like this:
> 
> ata2.00: ATA-9: Crucial_CT480M500SSD3, MU03, max UDMA/133
> 
> I'm interested in the "MU03" part, what is that in your case?

Although I never updated the firmware, I do have MU03:

% lsscsi | grep Crucial
[2:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      Crucial_CT480M50 MU03  /dev/sdb

% dmesg | grep Crucial_CT480M500
[    2.424537] ata3.00: ATA-9: Crucial_CT480M500SSD3, MU03, max UDMA/133

> Note I'm not saying we should not do the NOLPM quirk, but maybe we
> can limit it to older firmware.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin