linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for-next 1/1] null_blk: force complete for timeout request

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Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 11:42:21 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@...cle.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next 1/1] null_blk: force complete for timeout request

On 5/29/20 11:31 AM, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> The commit 7b11eab041da ("blk-mq: blk-mq: provide forced completion
> method") exports new API to force a request to complete without error
> injection.
> 
> There should be no error injection when completing a request by timeout
> handler.
> 
> Otherwise, the below would hang because timeout handler is failed.
> 
> echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/fail_io_timeout/probability
> echo 1000 > /sys/kernel/debug/fail_io_timeout/times
> echo 1 > /sys/block/nullb0/io-timeout-fail
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nullb0 bs=512 count=1 oflag=direct
> 
> With this patch, the timeout handler is able to complete the IO.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe