On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 07:03:37PM -0600, Vishal Verma wrote:
> These are early/RFC patches to add badblock support in xfs.
>
> Patch 1 should be relatively straightforward - it adds a notifier chain
> to badblocks that filesystems can register with.
>
> Patch 2 is the beginnings of xfs support. So far, I have the notifier
> registration and building the initial badblock list happening in
> xfs_mountfs. The next steps (and I may need some help with this as I'm
> no (x)fs developer :)) are to add this badblocks info to the reverse
> mapping tree, and then to check for it before accessing the media.
>
> Right now, this just prints the sector numbers/counts/{added, removed}
> to the kernel log, for both the initial list, and subsequent notifier
> hits.
>
> While I've tested this with a fake pmem device using libnvdimm's
> nfit_test framework, it should also work using badblock injection with
> any block device:
>
> # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/<device>
> # echo 122 1 > /sys/block/<device>/badblocks
> # echo 124 1 > /sys/block/<device>/badblocks
> # mount -t xfs /dev/<device> /mnt
> ... in log:
> [ +8.803776] XFS (pmem7): Mounting V4 Filesystem
> [ +0.009633] XFS (pmem7): Ending clean mount
> [ +0.001655] XFS (pmem7): got badblocks: sector 122, count 1
> [ +0.002018] XFS (pmem7): got badblocks: sector 124, count 1
>
> # echo 132 5 | > /sys/block/<device>/badblocks
> [Jun16 18:56] XFS (pmem7): xfs badblock added sector 132 (count 5)
>
> This is all based on Darrik's rmap work at:
> https://github.com/djwong/linux/tree/rmap-reflink-devel
>
> Since this is based on a v4.5-rc kernel, it lacks pmem support for
> clearing badblocks on zeroing/writing, so those parts can't easily
> be tested yet. The clearing work is in 4.7-rs kernels, and once we
> rebase to that, that should also be available.
I'm assuming you got at least a few of the 300 patches I just sent.
IOW: The whole kit and kaboodle have been rebased to for-next, which
means the kernel patches are based on 4.7-rc3.
Will have a look at the other patches.
:)
--D
>
>
> Vishal Verma (2):
> block, badblocks: add a notifier for badblocks
> xfs: initial/partial support for badblocks
>
> block/badblocks.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h | 1 +
> fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 104
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 1 +
> include/linux/badblocks.h | 19 +++++++++
> 5 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
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