On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:33PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> When device open races with device shutdown, we can get the following
> oops in scsi_disk_get():
>
> [11863.044351] general protection fault: [#1] SMP
> [11863.045561] Modules linked in: scsi_debug xfs libcrc32c netconsole btrfs
> r
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:32PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Make the function available for outside use and fortify it against NULL
> kobject.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Cc Greg?
Thanks.
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tejun
Hello, Jan.
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:31PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> When block device is closed, we call inode_detach_wb() in __blkdev_put()
> which sets inode->i_wb to NULL. That is contrary to expectations that
> inode->i_wb stays valid once set during the whole inode's lifetime and
> leads
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:28PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> __inode_wait_for_writeback() waits for I_SYNC on inode to get cleared.
> There's nothing specific regarting I_SYNC for that function. Generalize
> it so that we can use it also for I_WB_SWITCH bit. Also the function
> uses __wait_on_bit()
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:27PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Commit 6cd18e711dd8 "block: destroy bdi before blockdev is
> unregistered." moved bdi unregistration (at that time through
> bdi_destroy()) from blk_release_queue() to blk_cleanup_queue() because
> it needs to happen before blk_unregister_
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 04:54:17PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> From aaf612333753b948a96aebe4a2f8066ed45ef164 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jan Kara
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 12:16:30 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 03/10] block: Revalidate i_bdev reference in bd_aquire()
>
> When a device gets removed, blo
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:25PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Iteration over partitions in del_gendisk() omits part0. Add
> bdev_unhash_inode() call for the whole device. Otherwise if the device
> number gets reused, bdev inode will be still associated with the old
> (stale) bdi.
>
> Signed-off-by:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:24PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Move bdev_unhash_inode() after invalidate_partition() as
> invalidate_partition() looks up bdev and will unnecessarily recreate it
> if bdev_unhash_inode() destroyed it. Also use part_devt() when calling
> bdev_unhash_inode() instead of ma
> On 11 Feb 2017, at 12:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
>>> Interesting. Some input into the info extension (re blocksizes) would
>>> definitely be appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> What do you mean? Right now the client is just calling NBD_SET_BLKSIZE
>> with 4k blocksize since all of our devices are 4k d
On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 21:09 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 02/06/2017 05:14 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 21:13 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 1:13 AM, Christoph Hellwig
> > > wrote:
> > > > Dan,
> > > >
> > > > can you please quote your emails? I c
>
> The iozone results seem a bit consistent and all values seem to be noisy and
> not say much. I don't know why really, maybe the test is simply not relevant,
> the tests don't seem to be significantly affected by any of the patches, so
> let's focus on the dd and find tests.
Maybe use a more s
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 04:47:42PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 21:07 +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > >
> > > On 10 Feb 2017, at 19:06, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > >
> > > We noticed when trying to do O_DIRECT to an export on the server
> > > side
> > > that we were getting requests
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