From: "Nirjhar Roy (IBM)" <nirjhar.roy.lists@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] fs: return writeback errors for IOCB_DONTCACHE in generic_write_sync
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:34:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a05cde7d15d85f2cee6eafdb69b1380c8b704207.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251029163708.GC26985@lst.de>
On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 17:37 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 09:01:01AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hum. So we kick writeback but don't wait for any of it to start, and
> > immediately sample wberr. Does that mean that in the "bdev died" case,
> > the newly initiated writeback will have failed so quickly that
> > file_check_and_advance_wb_err will see that?
>
> Yes, this is primarily about catching errors in the submission path
> before it reaches the device, which are returned synchronously.
So, what you are saying is file_check_and_advance_wb_err() will wait/block till the write back
request done in filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() is completely submitted and there are no more
chances of write back failure?
--NR
>
> > Or are we only reflecting
> > past write failures back to userspace on the *second* write after the
> > device dies?
> >
> > It would be helpful to know which fstests break, btw.
>
> generic/252 generic/329 xfs/237
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-04 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-29 7:15 fall back from direct to buffered I/O when stable writes are required Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 7:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] fs: replace FOP_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE with a fmode bits Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 16:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-11-04 7:00 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM)
2025-11-05 14:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 9:44 ` Christian Brauner
2025-10-29 7:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs: return writeback errors for IOCB_DONTCACHE in generic_write_sync Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 16:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-29 16:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 18:12 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-30 5:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-04 12:04 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM) [this message]
2025-11-04 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 7:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: use IOCB_DONTCACHE when falling back to buffered writes Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 15:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-11-04 12:33 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM)
2025-11-04 15:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 7:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: fallback to buffered I/O for direct I/O when stable writes are required Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 15:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-29 16:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-29 21:23 ` Qu Wenruo
2025-10-30 5:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-30 6:37 ` Qu Wenruo
2025-10-30 6:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-30 6:53 ` Qu Wenruo
2025-10-30 6:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-30 7:14 ` Qu Wenruo
2025-10-30 7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-10 13:38 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM)
2025-11-10 13:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-12 7:13 ` Nirjhar Roy (IBM)
2025-10-29 15:58 ` fall back from direct to buffered " Bart Van Assche
2025-10-29 16:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-29 16:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-30 11:20 ` Dave Chinner
2025-10-30 12:00 ` Geoff Back
2025-10-30 12:54 ` Jan Kara
2025-10-30 14:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-30 22:02 ` Dave Chinner
2025-10-30 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-30 23:18 ` Dave Chinner
2025-10-31 13:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 15:57 ` Keith Busch
2025-10-31 16:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-03 11:14 ` Jan Kara
2025-11-03 12:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-03 22:47 ` Keith Busch
2025-11-04 23:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-11-05 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-05 21:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-11-06 9:50 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2025-11-06 12:49 ` hch
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