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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:03:35 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 221075] regression: 11.1 is unable to mount ZFS / on boot
Message-ID:  <bug-221075-3630-t8vsTsk9Yg@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
In-Reply-To: <bug-221075-3630@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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--- Comment #12 from Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to seschwar from comment #10)

Unfortunately, I don't see how r318197 could have an impact on ZFS either;
that revision only touches bits related to mmc(4), mmcsd(4) and correspondi=
ng
bridge drivers, but no KPI, no global structure or anything like that.
Moreover, according to attachments 184813 and 184814, the drivers in questi=
on
also don't attach on that machine (is the card reader you mention a USB one=
?).
The partial merges only refer to e. g. ARM-specific bridge drivers that sim=
ply
don't exist in stable/11, so these omissions should impact you even less.

The one thing that comes to my mind is that since r318197, mmcsd(4) depends
on geom_flasmap(4) and that the latter might cause some interaction with ZF=
S.
Given that I'm not familiar with how ZFS interfaces with GEOM, I have no id=
ea
what actually could be going wrong, though. As far as geom_flasmap(4) is
concerned, I can't spot an obvious bug in that regard and its code doesn't
differ between head and stable/11. One - not necessarily conclusive - way to
test the theory of interaction between geom_flasmap(4) and ZFS would be to =
use
a kernel built from a configuration with mmcsd(4) removed, so this dependen=
cy
isn't dragged in. In general, I'd suggest to look for unmerged fixes to GEOM
and to the parts of ZFS that interface with GEOM.

When interfacing mmcsd(4) with geom_flashmap(4), I've had a hard time with
races in GEOM; if g_retaste(9) is called (so that an additional provider -
now additionally offered by a GEOM class due to a change in configuration -
should get picked up) while re-tasting is already in progress, the already
ongoing re-tasting won't take note of the new provider and the new re-taste
event won't actually result in an additional re-taste cycle being scheduled.
If ZFS is suffering from the same or a similar bug, this doesn't necessarily
mean that the problem you are hitting is present in stable/11 only; with he=
ad
you just might be lucky that timing differences resulting from geom_flashma=
p(4)
also being in the mix don't lead to a race.

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