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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] - set b_error from bio error in xfs_buf_bio_end_io
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:59:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4938A70D.8090502@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4938A4C1.9010401@sandeen.net>

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Tim mentioned something about the code in xfs_buf_iodone_work()
> which detects barrier failures post-mount, as added in commit
> 0bfefc46dc028df60120acdb92062169c9328769,
> [XFS] Barriers need to be dynamically checked and switched off
> 
>         if ((bp->b_error == EOPNOTSUPP) &&
>             (bp->b_flags & (XBF_ORDERED|XBF_ASYNC)) == (XBF_ORDERED|XBF_ASYNC)) {
>                 XB_TRACE(bp, "ordered_retry", bp->b_iodone);
>                 bp->b_flags &= ~XBF_ORDERED;
>                 bp->b_flags |= _XFS_BARRIER_FAILED;
> ...
> 
> but it seems that nothing ever sets EOPNOTSUPP on b_error, so
> this path would never be hit.
> 
> I think that we need to do something like below, totally untested,
> to ensure that bio errors get set on b_error, if we're looking
> for them by name, no?

oh, heh, Tim had mentioned that Lachlan suggested this same thing on irc
yesterday, but somehow I had forgotten or totally missed that... didn't
mean to usurp Lachlan :)

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-05  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-05  3:49 [PATCH, RFC] - set b_error from bio error in xfs_buf_bio_end_io Eric Sandeen
2008-12-05  3:59 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-12-05  4:06 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-12-05  4:09   ` Eric Sandeen

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