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

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io
From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:08:37 +0000
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Thread-topic: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io
On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 13:59 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:11:36PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > + if (IS_DAX(inode)) {
> > > +         ret = dax_do_io(iocb, inode, iter, offset,
> > > blkdev_get_block,
> > > Â                         NULL, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT);
> > > +         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,
> > > Â                         ÂÂÂÂblkdev_get_block, NULL,
> > > NULL,
> > > Â                         ÂÂÂÂDIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT);
> > > + if (ret < 0 && ret_saved)
> > > +         return ret_saved;
> > > +
> > Hmm, did you just break async DIO?ÂÂI think you did!ÂÂ:)
> > __blockdev_direct_IO can return -EIOCBQUEUED, and you've now turned
> > that
> > into -EIO.ÂÂReally, I don't see a reason to save that first
> > -EIO.ÂÂThe
> > same applies to all instances in this patch.
> Yes, there is no point in saving the earlier error - just return the
> second error all the time.

Is it ok to do that?

direct_IO might fail with -EINVAL due to misalignment, or -ENOMEM due
to some allocation failing, and I thought we should return the original
-EIO in such cases so that the application doesn't lose the information
that the bad block is actually causing the error.

> 
> E.g.
> 
>       ret = dax_io();
>       if (dax_need_dio_retry(ret))
>               ret = direct_IO();
> 
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