linux-kernel - [PATCH] block: silently error unsupported empty barriers too

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Message-Id: <1249557257.3721.55.camel@blaa>
Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:14:17 +0100
From:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	dm-devel <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] block: silently error unsupported empty barriers too

With 2.6.31-rc5 in a KVM guest using dm and virtio_blk, we see the
following errors:

  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0
  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0

The errors go away if dm stops submitting empty barriers, by reverting:

  commit 52b1fd5a27c625c78373e024bf570af3c9d44a79
  Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
    dm: send empty barriers to targets in dm_flush

We should error all barriers, even empty barriers, on devices like
virtio_blk which don't support them.

See also:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/514901

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
---
 block/blk-core.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index e3299a7..35ad2bb 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1163,8 +1163,7 @@ static int __make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio)
 	const int unplug = bio_unplug(bio);
 	int rw_flags;
 
-	if (bio_barrier(bio) && bio_has_data(bio) &&
-	    (q->next_ordered == QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE)) {
+	if (bio_barrier(bio) && (q->next_ordered == QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE)) {
 		bio_endio(bio, -EOPNOTSUPP);
 		return 0;
 	}
-- 
1.6.4

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