Re: A new ide warning message

[Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 06:48, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> Uz.ytkownik Jens Axboe napisa?:
> > On Fri, Aug 02 2002, Stephen Lord wrote:
> > 
> >>In 2.5.30 I started getting these warning messages out ide during
> >>the mount of an XFS filesystem:
> >>
> >>ide-dma: received 1 phys segments, build 2
> >>
> >>Can anyone translate that into English please.
> > 
> > 
> > Well I added that message when switching to the 2.5 style request
> > mapping functions, and I think the message is perfectly clear :-). Never
> > the less, it means that a segment that came into the ide layer with an
> > advertised size of 1 segment was returned from blk_rq_map_sg() as having
> > _two_. This can be a problem with dynamically allocated sg table (not
> > that ide uses those, but still).
> > 
> > It's a bug and usually a critical one when this happens. I'd be inclined
> > to think that Adam's changes in this path are to blame for this error.
> 
> Carefull carefull. it can be that the generic BIO code doesn't honour
> the limits Adam was setting properly. And it can be of course
> as well the XFS doesn't cooperate properly with those limits as well,
> since ther kernel appears to be patched to support them.
> 

Well, this is happening when reading the log up from disk during
mount, we will be asking for somewhere around 32K of data at a
time, but it might not be well aligned. I will instrument it and
report back - will be a few hours, the box is at work and I just
tripped it up in some other code, I cannot reset it from here.

> It would be helpfull as well to know on which brand of host controller 
> chip this was found. In esp. trm290 maybe?

Since it is down I cannot give you the ide boot messages right now,
but it is a Tyan Tiger BX motherboard using the built in IDE chipset,
so pretty generic stuff.

> > 
> > Oh, and I'd be _really_ careful if you have trusted data on that drive
> > (surely not when running 2.5 ide on it :-)
> > 
> 

It's a scratch box, all it does is run development kernels and tests,
I am keeping 2.5 in a cage right now.

To answer your other question Jens, yes I can reproduce at will,
once I go in to the office.

Steve