ZFS checksum errors on umass(4) insertion
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 16 21:48:17 UTC 2009
On Thursday 16 April 2009 5:32:52 pm Scott Long wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > Can you please try http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/dma_pg.patch? This
> > lines up with your analysis in that it fixes a problem in the bounce
buffer
> > code that was introduced with the new USB stack (and only triggers when
the
> > USB code has to use a bounce buffer).
> >
>
> As a data point, most normal I/O is not going to trigger this bug, even
> if it gets bounced. I/O using O_DIRECT can, and GEOM discovery I/O can
> as well. Since memory is allocated from the top of the system, I think
> that the damage gets done early during boot, and then propagates out
> over time as the system becomes busier.
Hmm, are you sure regular I/O won't trigger it as well? All it takes is for
any USB transfer that starts off within a page to get a page into a non-zero
offset and later have a request >= PAGE_SIZE bounce. Since the VM is going
to always ask for I/O to pages (e.g. GET/PUTPAGES) normal disk I/O would
break if it uses the bad bounce page I think.
--
John Baldwin
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