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From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: Eduard Hasenleithner <eduard@hasenleithner.at>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Workaround for discard on non-conformant nvme devices
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 08:52:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d96335fb-8907-6b5b-14e9-08eb1a796b0d@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f220c69a-793d-9160-4f20-921c52748009@hasenleithner.at>


> As documented in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202665 
> there are lots of Linux nvme users which get IO-MMU related errors when 
> performing discard on nvme. So far analysis suggests that the errors are 
> caused by non-conformat nvme devices which are reading beyond the end of 
> the buffer containing the segments to be discarded.
> 
> Until now two different variants of this behavior have been observed: 
> The controller found on an Intel 660p always reads a multiple of 512 
> bytes. If the last chunk exceeds a page it continues with the subsequent 
> page. For a Corsair MP510 the situation is even worse: The controller 
> always reads a full page (4096) bytes. Then when the address is not 
> aligned to 4096 it will continue reading at the address given in PRP2 
> (which is most of the time 0).
> 
> This patch makes the nvme_setup_discard function always request a 
> multiple of a page size (4096) from the kernel for storing the segment 
> array. Since this makes the buffer always page-aligned the device 
> reading beyond end of a page is avoided.

This needs to come with a quirk for it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-06 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-04 21:47 [RFC PATCH] Workaround for discard on non-conformant nvme devices Eduard Hasenleithner
2019-11-06 16:52 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2019-11-06 18:23   ` Keith Busch
2019-11-06 20:22     ` Eduard Hasenleithner
2019-11-06 20:43       ` Keith Busch
2019-11-06 21:10         ` Eduard Hasenleithner
2019-11-06 21:34           ` Keith Busch

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