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Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io

From "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io
Date 2016-04-15 19:00 +0200
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On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 12:11 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > dax_do_io (called for read() or write() for a dax file system) may
> > fail
> > in the presence of bad blocks or media errors. Since we expect that
> > a
> > write should clear media errors on nvdimms, make dax_do_io fall
> > back to
> > the direct_IO path, which will send down a bio to the driver, which
> > can
> > then attempt to clear the error.
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > +	if (IS_DAX(inode)) {
> > +		ret = dax_do_io(iocb, inode, iter, offset,
> > blkdev_get_block,
> >  				NULL, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT);
> > -	return __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, I_BDEV(inode),
> > iter, offset,
> > +		if (ret == -EIO && (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE))
> > +			ret_saved = ret;
> > +		else
> > +			return ret;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	ret = __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, I_BDEV(inode),
> > iter, offset,
> >  				    blkdev_get_block, NULL, NULL,
> >  				    DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT);
> > +	if (ret < 0 && ret_saved)
> > +		return ret_saved;
> > +
> Hmm, did you just break async DIO?  I think you did!  :)
> __blockdev_direct_IO can return -EIOCBQUEUED, and you've now turned
> that
> into -EIO.  Really, I don't see a reason to save that first
> -EIO.  The
> same applies to all instances in this patch.

The reason I saved it was if __blockdev_direct_IO fails for some
reason, we should return the original cause o the error, which was an
EIO.. i.e. we shouldn't be hiding the EIO if the direct_IO fails with
something else..
But, how does _EIOCBQUEUED work? Maybe we need an exception for it? 

Thanks,
	-Vishal

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Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 20:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 20:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 20:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 20:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-15 21:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 21:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-04-15 21:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-04-15 21:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-20 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-23 20:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-25 10:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-25 17:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-26 10:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-25 19:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-25 19:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 01:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-04-26 01:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 01:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 02:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 03:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 05:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 06:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 10:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 19:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-04-26 02:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-04-26 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Vishal Verma <vishal@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 17:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-26 10:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Vishal Verma <vishal@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 17:10 +0200

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