Re: [LKP] [ocfs2] e2ac55b6a8e: ocfs2_init:1612 ERROR: Unable to create ocfs2 debugfs root

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Chengyu Song <csong84@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As suggested in the patch,  -19 (-ENODEV) happens when debugfs is not configured (see include/linux/debugfs.h). So if debugfs is necessary for the functionality, in Kconfig, we should either declare it as a dependency, or auto select it.

That makes no sense.

If it used to work before that patch, then this is a regression and
the patch needs to be reverted.

Yes, the old code apparently used to set "o2hb_debug_dir" to an error
pointer when debugfs was compiled out, but since debugfs was compiled
out, that error pointer was probably never actually *used*. So things
presumably worked.

Now, it hangs, according to Huang Ying. If so, that's clearly a
regression. That means that commit e2ac55b6a8e3 ("ocfs2: incorrect
check for debugfs returns") needs to be reverted or fixed.

Andrew?

                      Linus
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