[linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ]

Hi list:

Anyone knows if there's the intention to properly support kernel 2.2.19?
There're neither explicit raw-io patches nor lvm ones.

Other question.  Why raw-io patch is needed within kernel 2.2 series?
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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Jesus" == Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ <jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es> writes:

    Jesus> Hi list: Anyone knows if there's the intention to properly
    Jesus> support kernel 2.2.19?  There're neither explicit raw-io
    Jesus> patches nor lvm ones.

Just use the 2.2.18 one,

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ]

Hi, Adrian:

Adrian Phillips wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Jesus" == Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ <jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es> writes:
> 
>     Jesus> Hi list: Anyone knows if there's the intention to properly
>     Jesus> support kernel 2.2.19?  There're neither explicit raw-io
>     Jesus> patches nor lvm ones.
> 
> Just use the 2.2.18 one,
> 

Well, Adrian, that's what I'm doing... to no avail.  As I told in a
previous post, though patches apply cleanly, compilation fails because
"de" member on lvm_gendisk.part[MINOR(lv_ptr->lv.dev)].de is not
defined.
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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Jesus" == Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ <jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es> writes:

    Jesus> Hi, Adrian:
    Jesus> Adrian Phillips wrote:
    >>  >>>>> "Jesus" == Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ
    >> <jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es> writes:
    >> 
    Jesus> Hi list: Anyone knows if there's the intention to properly
    Jesus> support kernel 2.2.19?  There're neither explicit raw-io
    Jesus> patches nor lvm ones.
    >>  Just use the 2.2.18 one,
    >> 
    Jesus> Well, Adrian, that's what I'm doing... to no avail.  As I
    Jesus> told in a previous post, though patches apply cleanly,
    Jesus> compilation fails because "de" member on

Ah, sorry, you're talking about a newer lvm, I'm still using
0.9.1beta7. I couldn't quite follow your previous mails but are you
saying that the raw-io patch is the one causing problems ?

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ]

Hi Again:

Adrian Phillips wrote:
> 

[...]

> Ah, sorry, you're talking about a newer lvm, I'm still using
> 0.9.1beta7. I couldn't quite follow your previous mails but are you
> saying that the raw-io patch is the one causing problems ?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 

I'm trying now lvm-1.0.1rc4 onto kernel 2.2.19
Raw-io patch applied is that for 2.2.18 (I tested both with that from
kernel.org, and the one provided within the lvm tar).  I don't know if
the problem comes from raw-io or lvm itself (I don't even know why or
when raw-io patch is needed on 2.2 kernel series).  What I can say is
that the problem shows up in the making modules phase at the lvm.c
file.  It is used there an struct member that doesn't seem to be defined
anywhere else.

I imagine it can be either a "real" bug/incompatibility with kernel
2.2.19, or one resulting from bad patching (even though both patches
-that for raw-io and the one for lvm, applied cleanly).

I only tested (succesfully) kernel 2.2.18 with lvm 1.0, and (failed)
kernel 2.2.19 agains lvm-1.0.1rc3 & 4; this evening I will try 2.2.19
against 1.0 to see what happens.
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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Jesus" == Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ <jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es> writes:

    Jesus> I'm trying now lvm-1.0.1rc4 onto kernel 2.2.19 Raw-io patch
    Jesus> applied is that for 2.2.18 (I tested both with that from
    Jesus> kernel.org, and the one provided within the lvm tar).  I
    Jesus> don't know if the problem comes from raw-io or lvm itself
    Jesus> (I don't even know why or when raw-io patch is needed on
    Jesus> 2.2 kernel series).  What I can say is that the problem
    Jesus> shows up in the making modules phase at the lvm.c file.  It
    Jesus> is used there an struct member that doesn't seem to be
    Jesus> defined anywhere else.

Okay, calling LVM developers (or anyone else with more clue than me
:-). I've tried this myself :-

- linux 2.2.19
- reiserfs
- linux-2.2.18-rawio.patch
- lvm-1.0.1-rc4-2.2.19.patch

cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/mirrors/linux/linux-2.2.19/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /mirrors/linux/linux-2.2.19/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o lvm.o lvm.c
lvm.c: In function `lvm_do_lv_create':
lvm.c:2192: structure has no member named `de'
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:9: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo
lvm.c: In function `lvm_do_lv_remove':
lvm.c:2277: structure has no member named `de'
make[3]: *** [lvm.o] Error 1

Note the change in hd_struct in include/linux/genhd.c between 2.2.19
and 2.4.xxx :-

# 2.2.19
struct hd_struct {
	long start_sect;
	long nr_sects;
	int type;		/* RAID or normal */
};

# 2.4.0-test12
struct hd_struct {
	long start_sect;
	long nr_sects;
	devfs_handle_t de;              /* primary (master) devfs entry  */
};

So de is being set to the devfs_handle_t returned by lvm_fs_create_lv
and this doesn't exist in 2.2.19. So what needs to be set in 2.2 ?

What has been changed between 0.9.1beta7 (or later) and 1.0.1rc4 ?

I'll send this now and have a look (in CVS as well) to see if I can
anything obvious but not being a kernel hacker I am unsure of what is
required.

Thanks for any help,

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Andreas Dilger]

On Oct 04, 2001  17:18 +0200, Adrian Phillips wrote:
> Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ <jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es> writes:
> Note the change in hd_struct in include/linux/genhd.c between 2.2.19
> and 2.4.xxx :-
> 
> # 2.2.19
> struct hd_struct {
> 	long start_sect;
> 	long nr_sects;
> 	int type;		/* RAID or normal */
> };
> 
> # 2.4.0-test12
> struct hd_struct {
> 	long start_sect;
> 	long nr_sects;
> 	devfs_handle_t de;              /* primary (master) devfs entry  */
> };
> 
> So de is being set to the devfs_handle_t returned by lvm_fs_create_lv
> and this doesn't exist in 2.2.19. So what needs to be set in 2.2 ?

What you need to do to "properly" fix this is add a lines like

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION ( 2, 3, X)
	foo.de = bar;
#endif

around the two offending code sections, and find the appropriate kernel version
where this entry was added.  This can be done by looking at the kernel CVS:
                http://lxr.linux.no/

(best to start by checking if it is in 2.4.0, or a recent addition, and then
going back through 2.3.X kernels).

Send the resulting patch back to the list.

Cheers, Andreas
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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> writes:

    Andreas> What you need to do to "properly" fix this is add a lines
    Andreas> like

    Andreas> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION ( 2, 3, X) foo.de
    Andreas> = bar; #endif

    Andreas> around the two offending code sections, and find the
    Andreas> appropriate kernel version where this entry was added.
    Andreas> This can be done by looking at the kernel CVS:
    Andreas> http://lxr.linux.no/

Yes, but what concerned me was if there was some equivalent for 2.2
(foo.dev22 = bar). I was going to check the LVM CVS to see what
changes had been done but was unable to login :-

bash-2.03$  cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.globalfilesystem.org:/data/cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:cvs@cvs.globalfilesystem.org:2401/data/cvs
CVS password: 
cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.globalfilesystem.org rejected access to /data/cvs for user cvs

I did this according to the LVM CVS page,

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Andreas Dilger]

On Oct 04, 2001  19:18 +0200, Adrian Phillips wrote:
> Yes, but what concerned me was if there was some equivalent for 2.2
> (foo.dev22 = bar). I was going to check the LVM CVS to see what
> changes had been done but was unable to login :-

It was just added recently (probably a devfs thing).  Before that, it
just ran the "lvm_fs_setup()" (or whatever) function, and didn't do
anything with the output.  Hmm, that means my suggestion may be broken.

Need something like:

#if LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION > KERNEL_VERSION (2, 3, 38)
	foo.de =
#endif
		lvm_fs_setup();

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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> writes:

    Andreas> On Oct 04, 2001 19:18 +0200, Adrian Phillips wrote:
    >> Yes, but what concerned me was if there was some equivalent for
    >> 2.2 (foo.dev22 = bar). I was going to check the LVM CVS to see
    >> what changes had been done but was unable to login :-

    Andreas> It was just added recently (probably a devfs thing).
    Andreas> Before that, it just ran the "lvm_fs_setup()" (or
    Andreas> whatever) function, and didn't do anything with the
    Andreas> output.  Hmm, that means my suggestion may be broken.

    Andreas> Need something like:

    Andreas> #if LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION > KERNEL_VERSION (2, 3, 38)
    Andreas> foo.de = #endif lvm_fs_setup();

Great thanks for the help. I'll have a look at the weekend. It anyone
else with troubles wants to beat me to it, be my guest :-)

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:49:03AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 04, 2001  19:18 +0200, Adrian Phillips wrote:
> > Yes, but what concerned me was if there was some equivalent for 2.2
> > (foo.dev22 = bar). I was going to check the LVM CVS to see what
> > changes had been done but was unable to login :-
> 
> It was just added recently (probably a devfs thing).  Before that, it
> just ran the "lvm_fs_setup()" (or whatever) function, and didn't do
> anything with the output.  Hmm, that means my suggestion may be broken.
> 
> Need something like:
> 
> #if LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION > KERNEL_VERSION (2, 3, 38)
> 	foo.de =
> #endif
> 		lvm_fs_setup();
> 

You'll need a bit more than that... :-)

I've fixed it in CVS now anyway - it works on 2.2 again.

patrick

Re: [linux-lvm] kernel 2.2.19 support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:10:23AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> What you need to do to "properly" fix this is add a lines like
> 
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION ( 2, 3, X)
> 	foo.de = bar;
> #endif
> 
> around the two offending code sections, and find the appropriate kernel version
> where this entry was added.  This can be done by looking at the kernel CVS:
>                 http://lxr.linux.no/
> 
> (best to start by checking if it is in 2.4.0, or a recent addition, and then
> going back through 2.3.X kernels).

devfs was added in 2.3.48