Re: [PATCH blktests 0/5] Fix failures found with zoned block devices

[Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 05:12:26PM +0900, Shin'ichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> This patch series addresses two incorrect test failures found in the zbd test
> group. Two other problems with the check script and the common rc script are
> also fixed.
> 
> More specifically,
> * Patch 1 addresses an incorrect failure of block/024 caused by shorter write
>   I/O time than expected on very fast systems with a low overhead.
> * Patch 2 fixes test zbd/004 which can fail when a disk closes an implicitly
>   open zone after completion of a write command. To avoid this failure, the
>   closed zone condition is added as an allowed condition.
> * Patch 3 to 5 fix problems to access a block device sysfs attributes if the
>   target device is a partition.
> 
> Of note is that test block/004 still fails with a target device that is a
> partition of a zoned block device. The failure cause is due to an incorrect
> access to sysfs disk attributes by fio. A patch to fix this issue was sent to
> fio mailing list.

Thanks, I merged 1 and 2. I'm not necessarily opposed to the rest, but
I'm curious what your use case is for testing on partitions?

> Masato Suzuki (1):
>   block/024: Increase I/O time
> 
> Shin'ichiro Kawasaki (4):
>   zbd/004: Add zone condition "Closed" for sequential write required
>     zones
>   check: Add TEST_DEV_PART_SYSFS variable
>   common: Add _test_dev_is_partition() helper function
>   zbd: Change sysfs path for partition devices
> 
>  check           | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  common/rc       |  8 ++++++++
>  new             | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  tests/block/024 |  5 +++--
>  tests/zbd/004   |  9 ++++++++-
>  tests/zbd/rc    |  9 +++++++--
>  6 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1
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