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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:52:17 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKP ML <lkp@...org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [null_blk] f2298c0403b:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 08:24 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 01/06/2015 07:33 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
>> > FYI, we noticed the below changes on
>> >
>> > commit f2298c0403b0dfcaef637eba0c02c4a06d7a25ab ("null_blk: multi queue aware block test driver")
>> >
>> >
>> > testbox/testcase/testparams: vm-kbuild-yocto-i386/boot/1
>> >
>> > 320ae51feed5c2f1  f2298c0403b0dfcaef637eba0c
>> > ----------------  --------------------------
>> >         fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs
>> >             |             |             |
>> >             :10         100%          10:10    kmsg.VFS:could_not_find_a_valid_V7_on_nullb1
>> >             :10         100%          10:10    kmsg.VFS:could_not_find_a_valid_V7_on_nullb0
>> >            1:10         -10%            :10    kmsg.vm86_32:could_not_access_userspace_vm86_info
>> >
>> > vm-kbuild-yocto-i386: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm
>> > Memory: 320M
>> >
>> > [    1.971241] mtip32xx Version 1.2.6os3
>> > [    1.971311] blk-mq: CPU -> queue map
>> > [    1.971312]   CPU 0 -> Queue 0
>> > [    1.971314]   CPU 1 -> Queue 0
>> > [    1.971628]  nullb0: unknown partition table
>> > [    1.971748] blk-mq: CPU -> queue map
>> > [    1.971749]   CPU 0 -> Queue 0
>> > [    1.971751]   CPU 1 -> Queue 0
>> > [    1.972023]  nullb1: unknown partition table
>> > [    1.972096] null: module loaded
>> > [    1.972131] ibmasm: IBM ASM Service Processor Driver version 1.0 loaded
>> >
>> > I think this is at least confusing for the end user.
>>
>> Sorry, not sure I follow at all. If you're expecting the null block
>> driver to actually store data, then yes, you are going to have a bad
>> time. It's a test tool for storage stack development.
>
> I understand that null block is just for testing.
>
> I just think the message like:
>
> [    1.971628]  nullb0: unknown partition table
>
> may confuse the end user.  They may think there are something wrong.
> But it is not.  Is there any way to suppress this?

It can be logged for any normal block devices which have not be
partitioned, and users should have understood that, IMO.

Thanks
Ming Lei
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