From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733867F8D for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 01:55:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4939E8F804B for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2013 23:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id fRwfSiUZyv4A7qhI for ; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:55:19 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: Loopback device hung [was Re: xfs deadlock on 3.9-rc5 running xfstests case #78] Message-ID: <20130409065519.GH17758@dastard> References: <20130402070537.GP6369@dastard> <20130402071937.GC3670@kernel.dk> <20130402073035.GD3670@kernel.dk> <14055702.547701.1364891947331.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> <20130402090047.GF3670@kernel.dk> <985125161.581860.1364895066584.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> <20130402094834.GA4667@kernel.dk> <20130403114142.GP4667@kernel.dk> <515C4D9D.10103@ubuntu.com> <515DE2FE.1080201@ubuntu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <515DE2FE.1080201@ubuntu.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Phillip Susi Cc: Jens Axboe , LKML , CAI Qian , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 04:30:54PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > > I have not tested it yet, but I am pretty sure it won't work. It > > looks like the patch changes the BLKRRPART path to go ahead and remove > > existing partitions when GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN is set. loop doesn't > > issue the BLKRRPART ioctl when !LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN so this won't help. > > I think loop needs to set GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN and then issue the > > ioctl regardless of the LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN flag to get the partitions > > to be removed. I will try to test tonight. > > After testing, my initial thoughts appeared to have been correct. I had > to modify the patch as follows. To test, simply do: > > truncate -s 10m img > losetup /dev/loop0 img > parted /dev/loop0 > mklabel msdos > mkpart primary ext2 1m 2m > quit > ls /dev/loop0* > > Note the /dev/loop0p1 node. Run losetup -d /dev/loop0 and see if it is > still there. Jens, can we get one of these fixes merged quickly? xfstests is unusable on any kernel more recent than 3.9-rc4 because of these problems.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs