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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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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