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From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix multilevel diskfilter detection after rev 5024
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:40:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BDA422.9030807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130616075821.49205473@opensuse.site>

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On 16.06.2013 05:58, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:57:08 +0200
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com> пишет:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Yes. Any configuration with more than two levels.
> 
Ok, go ahead then.
>>>
>>> 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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      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-16 11:40 UTC|newest]

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
2013-06-16  3:58   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-06-16 11:40     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]

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