Re: [BUG] Injecting bad blocks in the nfit_test module does not work with kernel v4.17.4 + ndctl v61.1

["Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 08:29 +0000, Dorau, Lukasz wrote:
> On Thu, July 5, 2018 9:51 AM, Dorau, Lukasz <lukasz.dorau@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > I tested the workaround (ndctl start-scrub ; ndctl wait-scrub) but
> > it does not work
> > for me (with kernel v4.17.4 and ndctl v61.1):
> > 
> > # ndctl inject-error --block=16838 --count=512 namespace4.0
> > # ndctl start-scrub
> > # ndctl wait-scrub      #       <---       I waited 30 minutes for
> > 'ndctl wait-scrub', but it did
> > not finish...
> > 
> 
> It is polling forever in ndctl_bus_wait_for_scrub_completion() at
> libndctl.c:1239:

I've seen this happen sometimes on my test setup, but not frequently
enough to be able to debug reliably..
Can you try inserting a sleep 5 after the start-scrub?

I'll also try injecting a large number of blocks and see if I can
reproduce it.

> 
> Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> 0x00007ffff72d2a40 in __poll_nocancel () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-
> template.S:84
> 84	T_PSEUDO (SYSCALL_SYMBOL, SYSCALL_NAME, SYSCALL_NARGS)
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007ffff72d2a40 in __poll_nocancel () at
> ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
> #1  0x00007ffff7bc5e96 in poll (__timeout=-1, __nfds=1,
> __fds=0x7fffffffde38) at /usr/include/bits/poll2.h:46
> #2  ndctl_bus_wait_for_scrub_completion (bus=bus@entry=0x62c6d0) at
> libndctl.c:1239
> #3  0x00000000004075c2 in scrub_action (action=ACTION_WAIT,
> bus=0x62c6d0) at bus.c:30
> #4  bus_action (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, usage=usa
> ge@entry=0x4161c8 "ndctl wait-scrub [<bus-id> <bus-id2> ... <bus-
> idN>] [<options>]", action=action@entry=ACTION_WAIT, ctx=0x621340, 
>     options=0x416260 <bus_options>) at bus.c:77
> #5  0x0000000000407735 in cmd_wait_scrub (argc=<optimized out>,
> argv=<optimized out>, ctx=<optimized out>) at bus.c:119
> #6  0x0000000000414590 in run_builtin (p=0x61faf0 <commands+304>,
> ctx=0x621340, argv=0x7fffffffe4f0, argc=1) at util/main.c:90
> #7  main_handle_internal_command (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe4f0,
> ctx=0x621340, cmds=cmds@entry=0x61f9c0 <commands>, num_cmds=num_cmds@
> entry=23) at util/main.c:137
> #8  0x00000000004071fd in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized
> out>) at ndctl.c:125
> 
> --
> Lukasz
> 
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