Re: [BISECTED] nvme probe failure with v5.13-rc1

["Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 23:57 +0900, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:00:29AM +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I ran into this failure to probe an nvme device in an emulator
> > (simics). It looks like there is a ~60 second wait followed by a
> > timeout and a failure to boot (the root device is an nvme disk) with
> > these messages in the log:
> > 
> >    [   67.174010] nvme nvme0: I/O 5 QID 0 timeout, disable controller
> >    [   67.175793] nvme nvme0: Removing after probe failure status: -4
> > 
> > I bisected this to:
> >    5befc7c26e5a ("nvme: implement non-mdts command limits") 
> > 
> > It's not immediately obvious to me what's causing the problem.
> > Reverting the above commit fixes it. It is easily reproducible - I'd be
> > happy to provide more info about the emulated device or test out
> > patches or theories.
> > 
> > It is of course possible that the emulated device is behaving in some
> > non spec-compliant way, in which case I'd appreciate any help figuring
> > out what that is.
> 
> Hi Vishal,
> 
> The patch you bisected to sends only a single Identify command, so it
> sounds like that must be the command that times out. The controller is
> not required to support this specific identify (CNS 0x6), but it is
> required to produce a response. If the identify is unsupported, the
> controller should respond with an appropriate error (Invalid Field In
> Command), but it looks like the controller didn't respond at all.
> 
> So based on your observation, it sounds like the simics implementation
> has an identify bug. The spec doesn't provide a way for the driver to
> know ahead of time whether or not this identification is supported, so
> the driver just has to try it and react to the status code. If the
> implmenetation can't be fixed, then we'll need to quirk your device.
> 
> If you want to confirm for certain that the new identify is the source
> of your timeout, you could try the following patch and the timeout
> should go away:
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index 1a73eed61eee..b16d31d82606 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -2711,7 +2711,7 @@ static int nvme_init_non_mdts_limits(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
>  	else
>  		ctrl->max_zeroes_sectors = 0;
> 
> -	if (nvme_ctrl_limited_cns(ctrl))
> +	if (true || nvme_ctrl_limited_cns(ctrl))
>  		return 0;
> 
>  	id = kzalloc(sizeof(*id), GFP_KERNEL);
> --

Hi Keith,

Thanks for looking into it - yes with that the problem goes away.
Let me chat with the simics folks and see if I can get them to fix it.