Re: [RESEND PATCH] nvdimm: fix some compilation warnings

[Verma, Vishal L]

On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 17:26 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 5:25 PM Verma, Vishal L
> <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 16:25 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> > > > index 4671776f5623..9f02a99cfac0 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> > > > @@ -1269,11 +1269,9 @@ static int btt_read_pg(struct btt *btt,
> > > > struct bio_integrity_payload *bip,
> > > > 
> > > >                 ret = btt_data_read(arena, page, off, postmap,
> > > > cur_len);
> > > >                 if (ret) {
> > > > -                       int rc;
> > > > -
> > > >                         /* Media error - set the e_flag */
> > > > -                       rc = btt_map_write(arena, premap,
> > > > postmap, 0, 1,
> > > > -                               NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC);
> > > > +                       btt_map_write(arena, premap, postmap, 0,
> > > > 1,
> > > > +                                     NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC);
> > > >                         goto out_rtt;
> > > 
> > > This doesn't look correct to me, shouldn't we at least be logging
> > > that
> > > the bad-block failed to be persistently tracked?
> > 
> > Yes logging it sounds good to me. Qian, can you include this in your
> > respin or shall I send a fix for it separately (since we were always
> > ignoring the failure here regardless of this patch)?
> 
> I think a separate fix for this makes more sense. Likely also needs to
> be a ratelimited message in case a storm of errors is encountered.

Yes good point on rate limiting - I was thinking WARN_ONCE but that
might mask errors for distinct blocks, but a rate limited printk should
work best. I'll prepare a patch.