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From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
To: jdike@addtoit.com
Cc: Martyn Welch <martyn@collabora.com>,
	richard@nod.at, linux-um@lists.infradead.org,
	kernel@collabora.com,
	Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@collabora.com>,
	anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] um: ubd: Submit all data segments atomically
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 10:56:01 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blf35bim.fsf@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201122041356.1454413-1-krisman@collabora.com> (Gabriel Krisman Bertazi's message of "Sat, 21 Nov 2020 23:13:56 -0500")

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> writes:

> Internally, UBD treats each physical IO segment as a separate command to
> be submitted in the execution pipe.  If the pipe returns a transient
> error after a few segments have already been written, UBD will tell the
> block layer to requeue the request, but there is no way to reclaim the
> segments already submitted.  When a new attempt to dispatch the request
> is done, those segments already submitted will get duplicated, causing
> the WARN_ON below in the best case, and potentially data corruption.

[...]

> Cc: Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@collabora.com>
> Reported-by: Martyn Welch <martyn@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
> Tested-by: Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@collabora.com>
> Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>

ping. :)

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-09 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-22  4:13 [PATCH v2] um: ubd: Submit all data segments atomically Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-12-09 13:56 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi [this message]
2020-12-10 22:31   ` Richard Weinberger

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