From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix multilevel diskfilter detection after rev 5024
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:57:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BD1B74.2090008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370675539-31143-1-git-send-email-arvidjaar@gmail.com>
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On 08.06.2013 09:12, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> After commit "Fix order to discover ambigouos RAID before discovering
> RAIDs on top of it" diskfilter scans all volumes exactly once. This
> means that only first level is found. Scanning second time will find
> next level etc.
>
> This means that e.g. MD RAID on top of MD RAID is not found.
Do you mean raid on top of raid on top of raid? Otherwise I don't
understand the problem.
>
> Change scan to iteratively rescan volume list until nothing new was
> detected (or scan depth exceeded).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
>
> ---
> ChangeLog | 5 +++++
> grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index 4d8f343..bebcc8a 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
> +2013-06-08 Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
> +
> + * grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c (scan_devices): Iteratively
> + rescan diskfilter devices until nothing new is found.
> +
> 2013-06-07 Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
>
> * grub-core/script/execute.c (grub_script_execute_sourcecode): Split
> diff --git a/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c b/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
> index c8d267a..0455177 100644
> --- a/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
> +++ b/grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c
> @@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ scan_disk (const char *name, int accept_diskfilter)
> if (!accept_diskfilter && is_valid_diskfilter_name (name))
> return 0;
>
> + /* FIXME do we still need it? It is not called recursively anymore */
> if (scan_depth > 100)
> return 0;
Still need it. Consider raid on loopback where underlying OS may call
into diskfilter again.
>
> @@ -219,6 +220,8 @@ scan_devices (const char *arname)
> grub_disk_pull_t pull;
> struct grub_diskfilter_vg *vg;
> struct grub_diskfilter_lv *lv = NULL;
> + int scan_depth;
> + int need_rescan;
>
> for (pull = 0; pull < GRUB_DISK_PULL_MAX; pull++)
> for (p = grub_disk_dev_list; p; p = p->next)
> @@ -231,16 +234,26 @@ scan_devices (const char *arname)
> return;
> }
>
> - for (vg = array_list; vg; vg = vg->next)
> + scan_depth = 0;
> + need_rescan = 1;
> + while (need_rescan && scan_depth++ < 100)
> {
> - if (vg->lvs)
> - for (lv = vg->lvs; lv; lv = lv->next)
> - if (!lv->scanned && lv->fullname && lv->became_readable_at)
> - {
> - scan_disk (lv->fullname, 1);
> - lv->scanned = 1;
> - }
> + need_rescan = 0;
> + for (vg = array_list; vg; vg = vg->next)
> + {
> + if (vg->lvs)
> + for (lv = vg->lvs; lv; lv = lv->next)
> + if (!lv->scanned && lv->fullname && lv->became_readable_at)
> + {
> + scan_disk (lv->fullname, 1);
> + lv->scanned = 1;
> + need_rescan = 1;
> + }
> + }
> }
> +
> + if (need_rescan)
> + grub_error (GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE, "DISKFILTER scan depth exceeded");
> }
>
> static int
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-08 7:12 [PATCH] fix multilevel diskfilter detection after rev 5024 Andrey Borzenkov
2013-06-16 1:57 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2013-06-16 3:58 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-06-16 11:40 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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