Re: XFS metadata CRC errors on zram block device on ppc64le architecture

[Dusty Mabe]

On 8/2/23 07:03, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 8/2/23 11:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 11:31:37PM -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>>> We ran a kernel bisect and narrowed it down to offending commit af8b04c6:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> [root@ibm-p8-kvm-03-guest-02 linux]# git bisect good
>>> af8b04c63708fa730c0257084fab91fb2a9cecc4 is the first bad commit
>>> commit af8b04c63708fa730c0257084fab91fb2a9cecc4
>>> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>>> Date:   Tue Apr 11 19:14:46 2023 +0200
>>>
>>>      zram: simplify bvec iteration in __zram_make_request
>>>      
>>>      bio_for_each_segment synthetize bvecs that never cross page boundaries, so
>>>      don't duplicate that work in an inner loop.
>>
>>> Any ideas on how to fix the problem?
>>
>> So the interesting cases are:
>>
>>    - ppc64 usually uses 64k page sizes
>>    - ppc64 is somewhat cache incoherent (compared to say x86)
>>
>> Let me think of this a bit more.
> 
> Would need to be confirmed first that 64k pages really are in use
> (eg we compile ppc64le with 4k page sizes ...).
> Dusty?
> For which page size did you compile your kernel?


For Fedora the configuration is to enable 64k pages with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/064c1675a16b4d379b42ab6c3397632ca54ad897/f/kernel-ppc64le-fedora.config#_4791

I used the same configuration when running the git bisect.

Dusty