Re: bio linked list corruption.

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:03:45PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
 > On 10/26/2016 04:58 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Linus Torvalds
 > > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >>
 > >> Dave: it might be a good idea to split that "WARN_ON_ONCE()" in
 > >> blk_mq_merge_queue_io() into two
 > >
 > > I did that myself too, since Dave sees this during boot.
 > >
 > > But I'm not getting the warning ;(
 > >
 > > Dave gets it with ext4, and thats' what I have too, so I'm not sure
 > > what the required trigger would be.
 > 
 > Actually, I think I see what might trigger it. You are on nvme, iirc,
 > and that has a deep queue. Dave, are you testing on a sata drive or
 > something similar with a shallower queue depth? If we end up sleeping
 > for a request, I think we could trigger data->ctx being different.

yeah, just regular sata. I've been meaning to put an ssd in that box for
a while, but now it sounds like my procrastination may have paid off.

 > Dave, can you hit the warnings with this? Totally untested...
 
Coming up..
 
	Dave