Re: [GIT PULL] Queue free fix (was Re: [PATCH] block: Free queueresources at blk_release_queue())

[Mike Snitzer]

On Thu, Nov 10 2011 at 11:10am -0500,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:37:06AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:

...
 
> > Hmm. Just to be on the safe side, could you try this one:
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> > index 5e0090e..e6fad46 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> > @@ -920,8 +920,10 @@ static int multipath_map(struct dm_target *ti,
> > struct reque
> > st *clone,
> >         map_context->ptr = mpio;
> >         clone->cmd_flags |= REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT;
> >         r = map_io(m, clone, mpio, 0);
> > -       if (r < 0 || r == DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE)
> > +       if (r < 0 || r == DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE) {
> >                 mempool_free(mpio, m->mpio_pool);
> > +               map_context->ptr = NULL;
> > +       }
> > 
> >         return r;
> >  }
> 
> With your patch we haven't been able to reproduce the kernel crash until now.
> Now we "only" run into I/O stalls, which before your patch we also did. But
> repeatedly rebooting and retrying and ignoring the I/O stalls always lead to
> a crash.
> Gonzalo will run a couple of extra rounds so we can have a feeling if at least
> one of the bugs could be fixed with your patch ;)

Hi,

Any update after further testing with Hannes' patch?
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