From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] block: Fixes for bdi handling To: Jan Kara , Jens Axboe References: <20170308164834.14302-1-jack@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams , Omar Sandoval , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org From: Arthur Marsh Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 19:35:12 +1030 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170308164834.14302-1-jack@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed List-ID: Jan Kara wrote on 09/03/17 03:18: > Hi! > > patches in this series fix the most urgent bugs that were introduced by commit > 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()" and by > 0dba1314d4f8 "scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes". > In fact before these commits we had a different set of problems in the > code but they were less visible :). > > I'm still waiting for test confirmation from Omar and Arthur Marsh who reported > issues but I'm not able to hit any problem anymore in my testing. I think it > would be nice to get the patches to rc2 so to speed up things I'm posting the > patches now so that review can happen in parallel with the testing. > > Other BDI handling fixes I have in my queue can wait a bit more since they are > either theoretical or long-standing issues. So I'll repost them once these four > are sorted out. > > Honza > Sorry for the delay in replying, I had to leave the kernel with all 4 patches applied rebuilding while I was at work and just booted it. I've only done a kexec reboot so far but there were no problems - no errors in dmesg, all disks were recognised and all attempted mounts worked. Thanks very much for the quick fix! Arthur.