Re: [PATCH v2] generic/250: ignore xfs_io IO errors when writing to dmerror device

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:26:24AM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> When testing with data=journal ext4, direct write to dmerror device
> doesn't return EIO, because ext4 turns direct write to buffered write in
> data=journal mode and all data is written to journal buffer. The write
> only fails later when commiting journal and error messages can be seen
> in dmesg.
> 
> As the test is checking on the md5 checksum of the test file, it's ok to
> ignore the IO error returned by xfs_io, as long as the checksums match
> the golden image.

Looks fine to me,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

--D

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> v2:
> - Replace "CoW" with "Write" and update .out accordingly
> 
>  tests/generic/250     | 5 +++--
>  tests/generic/250.out | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/generic/250 b/tests/generic/250
> index 6d15de2..3c4fe6d 100755
> --- a/tests/generic/250
> +++ b/tests/generic/250
> @@ -79,11 +79,12 @@ _dmerror_mount
>  echo "Compare files"
>  md5sum $testdir/file2 | _filter_scratch
>  
> -echo "CoW and unmount"
> +echo "Write and unmount"
>  $XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x63 $bufsize 1" $testdir/file2 >> $seqres.full
>  sync
>  _dmerror_load_error_table
> -$XFS_IO_PROG -d -f -c "pwrite -S 0x63 -b $bufsize 0 $filesize" $testdir/file2 >> $seqres.full
> +$XFS_IO_PROG -d -f -c "pwrite -S 0x63 -b $bufsize 0 $filesize" $testdir/file2 \
> +	>> $seqres.full 2>&1
>  _dmerror_load_working_table
>  _dmerror_unmount
>  _dmerror_mount
> diff --git a/tests/generic/250.out b/tests/generic/250.out
> index 710c80e..67b006b 100644
> --- a/tests/generic/250.out
> +++ b/tests/generic/250.out
> @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ Format and mount
>  Create the original files
>  Compare files
>  ec8bb3b24d5b0f1b5bdf8c8f0f541ee6  SCRATCH_MNT/test-250/file2
> -CoW and unmount
> -pwrite64: Input/output error
> +Write and unmount
>  Compare files
>  3ed86318f4ff8da26c1c2a6e3041f9be  SCRATCH_MNT/test-250/file2
>  Check for damage
> -- 
> 2.5.5
> 
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