Hi Dan, I am trying to track this patch and looking forward to get your comments.
Many thanks! Ocean. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 4:31 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; > [email protected] > Cc: Ocean HY1 He <[email protected]> > Subject: [External] [ndctl PATCH] ndctl: recover from failed namespace > creation > > From: Ocean He <[email protected]> > > When namespace creation failure occurs, the consumed namespace (seed or > 0th > idle) and pfn/dax seed would block next namespace creation. A recovery is > needed to handle this type failure. > > A symptom example (section size is 128MB) based on kernel 4.19-rc2 and > ndctl v62: > # ndctl create-namespace -r region1 -s 100m -t pmem -m fsdax > { > "dev":"namespace1.0", > "mode":"fsdax", > "map":"dev", > "size":"96.00 MiB (100.66 MB)", > "uuid":"ef9a0556-a610-40b5-8c71-43991765a2cc", > "raw_uuid":"177b22e2-b7e8-482f-a063-2b8de876d979", > "sector_size":512, > "blockdev":"pmem1", > "numa_node":1 > } > # ndctl create-namespace -r region1 -s 100m -t pmem -m fsdax > libndctl: ndctl_pfn_enable: pfn1.1: failed to enable > Error: namespace1.1: failed to enable > failed to create namespace: No such device or address > # ndctl destroy-namespace namespace1.0 -f > destroyed 1 namespace > # ndctl create-namespace -r region1 -s 128m -t pmem -m fsdax > failed to create namespace: Device or resource busy > > Signed-off-by: Ocean He <[email protected]> > --- > Additional information: > A kernel patch to fix this has been reviewed by Dan Williams, and he prefers > to handle it in ndctl directly. > https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2901465.html > > ndctl/namespace.c | 12 +++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/ndctl/namespace.c b/ndctl/namespace.c > index 510553c..76ee2ed 100644 > --- a/ndctl/namespace.c > +++ b/ndctl/namespace.c > @@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ static int setup_namespace(struct ndctl_region > *region, > try(ndctl_pfn, set_align, pfn, p->align); > try(ndctl_pfn, set_namespace, pfn, ndns); > rc = ndctl_pfn_enable(pfn); > + if (rc) > + ndctl_pfn_set_namespace(pfn, NULL); > } else if (p->mode == NDCTL_NS_MODE_DAX) { > struct ndctl_dax *dax = ndctl_region_get_dax_seed(region); > > @@ -402,6 +404,8 @@ static int setup_namespace(struct ndctl_region > *region, > try(ndctl_dax, set_align, dax, p->align); > try(ndctl_dax, set_namespace, dax, ndns); > rc = ndctl_dax_enable(dax); > + if (rc) > + ndctl_dax_set_namespace(dax, NULL); > } else if (p->mode == NDCTL_NS_MODE_SAFE) { > struct ndctl_btt *btt = ndctl_region_get_btt_seed(region); > > @@ -783,7 +787,13 @@ static int namespace_create(struct ndctl_region > *region) > return -ENODEV; > } > > - return setup_namespace(region, ndns, &p); > + rc = setup_namespace(region, ndns, &p); > + if (rc) { > + ndctl_namespace_set_enforce_mode(ndns, > NDCTL_NS_MODE_RAW); > + ndctl_namespace_delete(ndns); > + } > + > + return rc; > } > > static int zero_info_block(struct ndctl_namespace *ndns) > -- > 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
