On 03/08/2017 01:36 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With a device dax alignment of 4KB or 2MB, I get sigbus when running the
> attached fio job file for the current kernel (4.11.0-rc1+).  If I
> specify an alignment of 1GB, it works.
> 
> I turned on debug output, and saw that it was failing in the huge fault
> code.
> 
> [ 4614.138357] dax dax1.0: dax_open
> [ 4614.154838] dax dax1.0: dax_mmap
> [ 4614.171898] dax dax1.0: dax_dev_huge_fault: fio: write (0x7f08f0a00000 - 
> 0x7f0ce0800000)
> [ 4614.211720] dax dax1.0: __dax_dev_pud_fault: 
> phys_to_pgoff(0xffffffffcf600) failed
> [ 4614.568911] dax dax1.0: dax_release
> 
> Note that the printk is backwards: it's not phys_to_pgoff but rather
> pgoff_to_phys that fails.
> 
> I don't have time to dig into this right now, so I figured I'd report it
> in case others do.
> 
> This does make me wonder how much testing device dax receives.  I tried
> 3 different kernels (a 4.10-rc, this one, and then a version just before
> the huge page support went in) and they all broke in different ways.
> This test is pretty simple.  Dan, can we add it to whatever regression
> tests you guys run for each of 4KB, 2MB and 1GB alignments?

I'll take a look. I know I ran fio tests around the time I submitted the
dev-dax ioengine and did not run into that. But you are saying it's
failing even before the 1G support went in?


> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> 
> [global]
> ioengine=dev-dax
> direct=0
> filename=/dev/dax0.0
> bs=2m
> 
> [write]
> rw=write
> 
> [read]
> stonewall
> rw=read
> 
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