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SubjectRe: audio cd writing causes massive swap and crash
On Sat, Jul 17 2004, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> Both with 2.6.7-rc3 and 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 I get the same behavior when
> writing an audio cd on my plextor px-712a. DMA is enabled and normal
> data cds write as expected, but audio cds will cause (at any speed) the
> box to start using insane amounts of swap (>150MB) and eventually cause
> the box to crash before finishing the cd. CPU usage during the write is
> very low, but the feeling of lagginess begins after the first few tracks
> (and as the memory begins to be sucked away). I've used both cdrecord
> from cdrtools in debian and from the site and both have the same
> behavior. I dont know how i'd go about finding out what the problem is,
> so far I've coastered over 10 cds trying different ways of burning an
> audio cd but it appears that burnfree, speed have nothing to do with the
> problem.
>
> Here's some drive info if it helps.
>
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
> Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-712A '
> Revision : '1.01'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
> cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support
> code.
> cdrecord: See /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian for details on
> DVD support.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE VARIREC FORCESPEED SPEEDREAD
> SINGLESESSION HIDECDR
> Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
>
>
> now in cdrecord i use the option -swab not sure if that counters the
> driver flags or what, either way I doubt it would be causing this problem.
>
> the drive by the way is mmc4 compliant, so it's weird that it says mmc2.
> any more info that's needed just tell me.

Sounds like it's leaking all the pages, vmstat 1 during rip will show
for sure. Can you check if this makes a difference, against
2.6.8-rc-mm1 (should apply with offsets, I'm on the road so cannot test
myself)?

--- /mnt/kscratch/linux-2.6.5/mm/highmem.c 2004-04-04 05:37:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5-SUSE-20040713/mm/highmem.c 2004-07-15 10:28:12.142262512 +0200
@@ -309,12 +309,10 @@ static void bounce_end_io(struct bio *bi
{
struct bio *bio_orig = bio->bi_private;
struct bio_vec *bvec, *org_vec;
- int i;
+ int i, err = 0;

if (!test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags))
- goto out_eio;
-
- set_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio_orig->bi_flags);
+ err = -EIO;

/*
* free up bounce indirect pages used
@@ -327,8 +325,7 @@ static void bounce_end_io(struct bio *bi
mempool_free(bvec->bv_page, pool);
}

-out_eio:
- bio_endio(bio_orig, bio_orig->bi_size, 0);
+ bio_endio(bio_orig, bio_orig->bi_size, err);
bio_put(bio);
}

--- /mnt/kscratch/linux-2.6.5/fs/bio.c 2004-07-14 23:12:42.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5-SUSE-20040713/fs/bio.c 2004-07-15 10:30:53.263775247 +0200
@@ -549,7 +549,6 @@ static struct bio *__bio_map_user(reques
bio->bi_rw |= (1 << BIO_RW);

bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_USER_MAPPED);
- blk_queue_bounce(q, &bio);
return bio;
out:
kfree(pages);
--- /mnt/kscratch/linux-2.6.5/drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2004-07-14 23:12:42.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5-SUSE-20040713/drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c 2004-07-15 10:26:39.089364958 +0200
@@ -167,6 +167,13 @@ static int sg_io(request_queue_t *q, str
rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC;
bio = rq->bio;

+ /*
+ * bounce this after holding a reference to the original bio, it's
+ * needed for proper unmapping
+ */
+ if (rq->bio)
+ blk_queue_bounce(q, &rq->bio);
+
rq->timeout = (hdr->timeout * HZ) / 1000;
if (!rq->timeout)
rq->timeout = q->sg_timeout;
--- /mnt/kscratch/linux-2.6.5/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c 2004-07-14 23:12:42.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5-SUSE-20040713/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c 2004-07-15 10:27:17.219225057 +0200
@@ -1975,6 +1975,9 @@ static int cdrom_read_cdda_bpc(struct cd
rq->timeout = 60 * HZ;
bio = rq->bio;

+ if (rq->bio)
+ blk_queue_bounce(q, &rq->bio);
+
if (blk_execute_rq(q, cdi->disk, rq)) {
struct request_sense *s = rq->sense;
ret = -EIO;
--- /mnt/kscratch/linux-2.6.5/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c 2004-07-14 23:12:42.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5-SUSE-20040713/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c 2004-07-15 10:34:51.152967583 +0200
@@ -1807,6 +1807,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_insert_request);
*
* A matching blk_rq_unmap_user() must be issued at the end of io, while
* still in process context.
+ *
+ * Note: The mapped bio may need to be bounced through blk_queue_bounce()
+ * before being submitted to the device, as pages mapped may be out of
+ * reach. It's the callers responsibility to make sure this happens. The
+ * original bio must be passed back in to blk_rq_unmap_user() for proper
+ * unmapping.
*/
struct request *blk_rq_map_user(request_queue_t *q, int rw, void __user *ubuf,
unsigned int len)

--
Jens Axboe

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