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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: introduce bdev holder ops and a file system shutdown method v2
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 17:58:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230523005821.GF11620@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230519041136.GA10931@lst.de>

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 06:11:36AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:00:12PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 06:23:09AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > this series fixes the long standing problem that we never had a good way
> > > to communicate block device events to the user of the block device.
> > > 
> > > It fixes this by introducing a new set of holder ops registered at
> > > blkdev_get_by_* time for the exclusive holder, and then wire that up
> > > to a shutdown super operation to report the block device remove to the
> > > file systems.
> > 
> > Thanks for working on this!  Is there going to be an fstest which
> > simulates a device removal while we're running fsstress or some such,
> > so we can exercise full device removal path?
> 
> 
> So the problem with xfstests is that there isn't really any generic
> way to remove a block device, and even less so to put it back.
> 
> xfstests has some scsi_debug based tests, maybe I can cook something up
> for that.  My testing has been with nvme, so another option would be
> to add nvme-loop support to xfstests and use that.  I'll see what I can
> do.

Could you make dm-error accept a 'message' telling it to invoke all
these bdev removal actions?  There's already a bunch of helpers in
fstests to make that less awful for test authors.

--D

      reply	other threads:[~2023-05-23  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-18  4:23 introduce bdev holder ops and a file system shutdown method v2 Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 01/13] block: factor out a bd_end_claim helper from blkdev_put Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 02/13] block: refactor bd_may_claim Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 11:41   ` Jan Kara
2023-06-01  8:11     ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-06-01  9:58       ` Jan Kara
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 03/13] block: turn bdev_lock into a mutex Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 04/13] block: consolidate the shutdown logic in blk_mark_disk_dead and del_gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 11:58   ` Jan Kara
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 05/13] block: avoid repeated work in blk_mark_disk_dead Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 06/13] block: unhash the inode earlier in delete_partition Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 12:09   ` Jan Kara
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 07/13] block: delete partitions later in del_gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 12:55   ` Jan Kara
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 08/13] block: remove blk_drop_partitions Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 12:56   ` Jan Kara
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 09/13] block: introduce holder ops Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 13:03   ` Jan Kara
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 10/13] block: add a mark_dead holder operation Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 13:05   ` Jan Kara
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 11/13] fs: add a method to shut down the file system Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 12/13] xfs: wire up sops->shutdown Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18  5:03   ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-18  4:23 ` [PATCH 13/13] xfs: wire up the ->mark_dead holder operation for log and RT devices Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18  5:40   ` Dave Chinner
2023-05-19  2:00 ` introduce bdev holder ops and a file system shutdown method v2 Theodore Ts'o
2023-05-19  4:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-23  0:58     ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]

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