Neil Brown write:
> On Thursday November 30, ganesh@veritas.com wrote:
> > in generic_make_request(), the following code handles stacking:
> >
> > do {
> > q = blk_get_queue(bh->b_rdev);
> > if (!q) {
> > printk(...)
> > buffer_IO_error(bh);
> > break;
> > }
> > } while (q->make_request_fn(q, rw, bh));
> >
> > however, make_request_fn may return -1 in case of errors. one such fn is
> > raid0_make_request(). this causes generic_make_request() to loop endlessly.
> > lvm returns 1 unconditionally, so it would also loop if an error occured in
> > lvm_map(). other bdevs might have the same problem.
> > I think a better mechanism would be to mandate that make_request_fn ought
> > to call bh->b_end_io() in case of errors and return 0.
>
> Good catch, thanks. Below is a patch to fix md drivers (md.c,
> linear.c and raid0.c).
>
> NeilBrown
You need to also patch the lvm.c driver at the same time... However, this
change now makes it very counter-intuitive compared to other kernel
functions. Normally, we return 0 on success, and -ve on error. Maybe
the RAID and LVM make_request functions should be changed to do that
instead (i.e. 0 on success, -ve on error, and maybe "1" if they do their
own recursion to break the loop)?
Cheers, Andreas
PS - I fixed the LVM mailing list address...
--
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\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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