Re: [LKP] [null_blk] f2298c0403b:

From: Huang Ying
Date: Wed Jan 07 2015 - 19:52:57 EST


On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 08:24 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 01/06/2015 07:33 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
> > FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> >
> > commit f2298c0403b0dfcaef637eba0c02c4a06d7a25ab ("null_blk: multi queue aware block test driver")
> >
> >
> > testbox/testcase/testparams: vm-kbuild-yocto-i386/boot/1
> >
> > 320ae51feed5c2f1 f2298c0403b0dfcaef637eba0c
> > ---------------- --------------------------
> > fail:runs %reproduction fail:runs
> > | | |
> > :10 100% 10:10 kmsg.VFS:could_not_find_a_valid_V7_on_nullb1
> > :10 100% 10:10 kmsg.VFS:could_not_find_a_valid_V7_on_nullb0
> > 1:10 -10% :10 kmsg.vm86_32:could_not_access_userspace_vm86_info
> >
> > vm-kbuild-yocto-i386: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm
> > Memory: 320M
> >
> > [ 1.971241] mtip32xx Version 1.2.6os3
> > [ 1.971311] blk-mq: CPU -> queue map
> > [ 1.971312] CPU 0 -> Queue 0
> > [ 1.971314] CPU 1 -> Queue 0
> > [ 1.971628] nullb0: unknown partition table
> > [ 1.971748] blk-mq: CPU -> queue map
> > [ 1.971749] CPU 0 -> Queue 0
> > [ 1.971751] CPU 1 -> Queue 0
> > [ 1.972023] nullb1: unknown partition table
> > [ 1.972096] null: module loaded
> > [ 1.972131] ibmasm: IBM ASM Service Processor Driver version 1.0 loaded
> >
> > I think this is at least confusing for the end user.
>
> Sorry, not sure I follow at all. If you're expecting the null block
> driver to actually store data, then yes, you are going to have a bad
> time. It's a test tool for storage stack development.

I understand that null block is just for testing.

I just think the message like:

[ 1.971628] nullb0: unknown partition table

may confuse the end user. They may think there are something wrong.
But it is not. Is there any way to suppress this?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying



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