Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] block: improve detail in I/O error messages

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Wed Dec 08 2010 - 06:29:38 EST


Hello.

On 08-12-2010 2:16, Mike Snitzer wrote:

Classify severity of I/O errors for target and transport errors.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer<snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
[...]

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 4ce953f..ab8c776 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -2028,9 +2028,15 @@ bool blk_update_request(struct request *req, int error, unsigned int nr_bytes)

if (error&& req->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_FS&&
!(req->cmd_flags& REQ_QUIET)) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "end_request: I/O error, dev %s, sector %llu\n",
- req->rq_disk ? req->rq_disk->disk_name : "?",
- (unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(req));
+ char *error_type = "I/O";
+
+ if (error == -ENOLINK)
+ error_type = "recoverable transport";
+ else if (error == -EREMOTEIO)
+ error_type = "critical target";

*switch* would be more natural here.

WBR, Sergei
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