linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs: Add device information for error output in __find_get_block

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Message-Id: <1313854739-3133-1-git-send-email-tm@tao.ma>
Date:	Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:38:59 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs: Add device information for error output in __find_get_block_slow.

From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

In ext4 mailist[1], we got some report about errors in
__find_get_block_slow, but the information is very limited.
If the device information is given, we can know the name of
the sick volume. Futhermore, we can get the corresponding
status of that block(group, inode block etc) by analyzing
the disk layout.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=131379831421147&w=2

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
---
 fs/buffer.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 1a80b04..6fe4ece 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -213,13 +213,16 @@ __find_get_block_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block)
 	 * elsewhere, don't buffer_error if we had some unmapped buffers
 	 */
 	if (all_mapped) {
+		char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+
 		printk("__find_get_block_slow() failed. "
 			"block=%llu, b_blocknr=%llu\n",
 			(unsigned long long)block,
 			(unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
 		printk("b_state=0x%08lx, b_size=%zu\n",
 			bh->b_state, bh->b_size);
-		printk("device blocksize: %d\n", 1 << bd_inode->i_blkbits);
+		printk("device %s blocksize: %d\n", bdevname(bdev, b),
+			1 << bd_inode->i_blkbits);
 	}
 out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&bd_mapping->private_lock);
-- 
1.7.0.4

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