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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:39:43 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        mav@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: disk "flipped" - a known problem?
Message-ID:  <CADLo839OaZ-HfXW9HjKd0pTR66Sd4zzf8Y7ervZrb0-Oem4%2BcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 21 Feb 2013 19:07, "Alexander Motin" <mav@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 26.01.2013 03:17, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > Okay, I've figured out the exact, 100% reproducible condition that
> > causes the situation.  It took me a lot of tries and a digital pocket
> > recorder to take verbal notes (there are just too many things to look at
> > simultaneously), but I've figured it out.
> >
> > I'm sorry for the verbosity, but it's necessary.
> >
> > Assume the disk we're talking about is /dev/ada5.
> >
> > 1. Prior to any issues, we have this:
> >
> > root@icarus:~ # ls -l /dev/ada5* /dev/xpt* /dev/pass5*
> > crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x8c Jan 25 16:41 /dev/ada5
> > crw-------  1 root  operator  0x75 Jan 25 16:35 /dev/pass5
> > crw-------  1 root  operator  0x51 Jan 25 16:35 /dev/xpt0
> >
> > 2. ada5 begins experiencing issues -- ATA commands (CDBs) submit do not
> > get a response (not going to discuss how/why that can happen).
> >
> > 3. These types of messages are seen on console (naturally the CDB and
> > request type will vary -- in this case it was because I was doing the dd
> > zero'ing, thus tickling the bad sector/naughty firmware on the drive):
> >
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: ahcich5: Timeout on slot 0 port 0
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: ahcich5: is 00000000 cs 00000000 ss
00000001 rs 00000001 tfd 40 serr 00000000 cmd 0004c017
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: ahcich5: AHCI reset...
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: ahcich5: SATA connect time=1000us
status=00000113
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: ahcich5: AHCI reset: device found
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: (ada5:ahcich5:0:0:0):
WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED.  ACB: 61 80 80 77 01 40 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: (ada5:ahcich5:0:0:0): CAM status:
Command timeout
> > Jan 25 16:29:28 icarus kernel: (ada5:ahcich5:0:0:0): Retrying command
> >
> > 4. Any I/O submit to ada5 during this time blocks (this is normal).
> >
> > 5. **While this situation is happening**, something using xpt(4)
> > attempts to submit a CDB to the disk (ex. smartctl -a /dev/ada5).
> > This request also blocks (again, normal).
> >
> > 6. Physical device falls off bus, or CAM kicks the disk off the bus.
> > Doesn't matter which.  We see messages resembling this (boy am I tired
> > of this interspersed output problem):
> >
> > Jan 25 16:29:32 icarus kernel: (ada5:ahcich5:0:0:0): lost device
> > Jan 25 16:29:32 icarus kernel: (pass5:ahcich5:0:0:0): lost device
> > Jan 25 16:29:32 icarus kernel: (ada5:ahcich5:0:0:0): removing device
entry
> > Jan 25 16:29:32 icarus kernel: (pass5:ahcich5:0:0:0): passdevgonecb:
devfs entry is gone
> >
> > 7. Standard I/O requests fail with errno=6 "Device not configured".
> > xpt(4) requests also fail with the same errno.
> >
> > 8. Device-wise, at this stage all we have is:
> >
> > root@icarus:~ # ls -l /dev/ada5* /dev/xpt* /dev/pass5*
> > crw-------  1 root  operator  0x51 Jan 25 16:35 /dev/xpt0
> >
> > 9. Device comes back online for whatever reason.  FreeBSD sees the disk,
> > blah blah blah:
> >
> > Jan 25 16:30:16 icarus kernel: GEOM: new disk ada5
> > Jan 25 16:30:16 icarus kernel: ada5: <WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR4 21.07QR4>
ATA-7 SATA 1.x device
> > Jan 25 16:30:16 icarus kernel: ada5: Serial Number WD-WMAP41573589
> > Jan 25 16:30:16 icarus kernel: ada5: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x,
UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
> > Jan 25 16:30:16 icarus kernel: ada5: Command Queueing enabled
> > Jan 25 16:30:16 icarus kernel: ada5: 143089MB (293046768 512 byte
sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
> > Jan 25 16:30:16 icarus kernel: ada5: Previously was known as ad14
> >
> > ...um, where's pass5?
> >
> > 10. /dev/pass5 is now completely (permanently) missing:
> >
> > root@icarus:~ # ls -l /dev/ada5* /dev/xpt* /dev/pass5*
> > crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x99 Jan 25 16:42 /dev/ada5
> > crw-------  1 root  operator  0x51 Jan 25 16:35 /dev/xpt0
> >
> > 11. Any further attempts to communicate via xpt(4) with ada5 fail.
> > Detaching and reattaching the disk does not fix the issue; the only fix
> > is to reboot the system.
> >
> > 12. "camcontrol debug -IPXp scbus5" results in tons and tons of output
> > all pertaining to xpt(4).  It looks like xpt(4) is in some kind of
> > loop.
> >
> > Below is my verbose boot (with non-kernel things removed), which
> > also includes "camcontrol debug" output once things are in a bad state:
> >
> > http://jdc.koitsu.org/freebsd/xpt_oddity.log
> >
> > In this log you'll see that after 1 CAM timeout I yanked the drive, then
> > roughly 30 seconds later reinserted it.
> >
> > If you need me to turn on CAM debugging *prior* to the above, I can do
> > that, just let me know.
> >
> > The important step is #5.  Without that, the problem shown in #9/10/11
> > does not happen.
> >
> > It's a good thing I don't run smartd(8) -- most users I see using that
> > software set the interval to something like 180s or 60s.  Imagine this
> > frustration: "okay so the disk fell off the bus, but what, now I can't
> > talk to it with SMART?  Uhhh... <reboots>  Err, works now?  Whatever".
>
> I think, the problem may already be fixed in HEAD by r244014 by ken@.
> I've just merged it to 9-STABLE at r247115. So if it is still possible
> to reproduce the situation, it would be good to try.

I think I've been having the same troubles since upgrading from 9.0, so I'm
going to try applying that to 9.1-R and I'll also give feedback.

Chris



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