recent disk-related breakage

2016-01-10 Thread Colin Percival
Some time in early December, disk I/O broke. The EC2 image built from r291495 works fine; the EC2 image built from r292413 is broken. Symptoms: 1. growfs reports "superblock not recognized" 2. fsck reports lots of "UNKNOWN FILE TYPE"s and after a few seconds provokes "panic: XEN disk driver

Re: recent disk-related breakage

2016-01-10 Thread Colin Percival
I'm rather suspicious of r292255 here -- royger, hps, kib, can any of you comment on whether it would be responsible for making non-page-aligned I/Os no longer get split on page boundaries? The commit message is suggestive, but I don't know the code very well. (If I don't hear back I'll