Re: [PATCH] ext3: prevent reread after write IO error v2

[Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>]

Jan Kara wrote:

>>By the way, I think the right fix is to keep uptodate flag on write
>>error, but it gives a big impact.  We have to confirm whether
>>over 200 buffer_uptodate's are used for real uptodate check or write
>>error check.  For now, I adopt the quick-fix solution.
> 
>   Yes that needs to be solved. I also looked into it and it's too much work
> to do it in a one big sweep. But I think we could do the conversion
> filesystem by filesystem - see below.
>   Admittedly, I don't like your solution very much. It looks strange to
> check write_io_error when *reading* the buffer and I'm afraid we could
> introduce bugs e.g. by clearing write_io_error bit so that ext3_bread would
> then fail to detect the error condition or by some other code deciding to
> read the buffer from disk via other function than just ext3_bread. So I
> think it would be much better to set back uptodate flag shortly after the
> failed write or not clear it at all.
>   Now here's how I think we could achieve that without having to change all
> other filesystems: We could create a new superblock flag which would mean
> that "this filesystem handles write_io_error and doesn't want to clear
> uptodate flag". Filesystems with this capability would set this flag when
> calling get_sb_bdev. And if write IO fails we check this flag
> (via bh->b_bdev->bd_super->s_flags) and clear / not clear uptodate flag
> accordingly. What do you think?

Thanks for your comment!

Your suggestion is what I wanted to do ultimately, and it seems
to go well.  I'll send a rivised patch later.

Best regards,
-- 
Hidehiro Kawai
Hitachi, Systems Development Laboratory
Linux Technology Center