Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 17:23:07 +0800
From: yangxingui <yangxingui@...wei.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC: <rafael@...nel.org>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
	<prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>, <liyihang9@...wei.com>, <kangfenglong@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add log when devtmpfs create node failed

Hi Greg,

On 2024/5/23 15:25, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 09:50:09AM +0800, yangxingui wrote:
>> Hi, Greg
>>
>> On 2024/5/22 20:23, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 11:43:46AM +0000, Xingui Yang wrote:
>>>> Currently, no exception information is output when devtmpfs create node
>>>> failed, so add log info for it.
>>>
>>> Why?  Who is going to do something with this?
>> We execute the lsscsi command after the disk is connected, we occasionally
>> find that some disks do not have dev nodes and these disks cannot be used.
> 
> Ok, but why do you think that devtmpfs create failed?
I found that lsscsi will traverse the dev node and obtain device major 
and min. If no matching dev node is found, it will display "-       ".
> 
>> However, there is no abnormal log output during disk scanning. We analyze
>> that it may be caused by the failure of devtmpfs create dev node, so the log
>> is added here.
> 
> But is that the case?  Why is devtmpfs failing?  Shouldn't we fix that
> instead?
My subsequent reply touches on these points.
> 
>> The lscsi command query results and kernel logs as follows:
>>
>> [root@...alhost]# lsscsi
>> [9:0:4:0]	disk	ATA	ST10000NM0086-2A SN05	-
>>
>> kernel: [586669.541218] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:04.0: phyup: phy0
>> link_rate=10(sata)
>> kernel: [586669.541341] sas: phy-9:0 added to port-9:0, phy_mask:0x1
>> (5000000000000900)
>> kernel: [586669.541511] sas: DOING DISCOVERY on port 0, pid:2330731
>> kernel: [586669.541518] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:04.0: dev[4:5] found
>> kernel: [586669.630816] sas: Enter sas_scsi_recover_host busy: 0 failed: 0
>> kernel: [586669.665960] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:04.0: phydown: phy0
>> phy_state=0xe
>> kernel: [586669.665964] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:04.0: ignore flutter phy0
>> down
>> kernel: [586669.863360] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:04.0: phyup: phy0
>> link_rate=10(sata)
>> kernel: [586670.024482] ata19.00: ATA-10: ST10000NM0086-2AA101, SN05, max
>> UDMA/133
>> kernel: [586670.024487] ata19.00: 19532873728 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ
>> (depth 32), AA
>> kernel: [586670.027471] ata19.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> kernel: [586670.027490] sas: --- Exit sas_scsi_recover_host: busy: 0 failed:
>> 0 tries: 1
>> kernel: [586670.037541] sas: ata19: end_device-9:0:
>> model:ST10000NM0086-2AA101 serial:            ZA2B3PR2
>> kernel: [586670.100856] scsi 9:0:4:0: Direct-Access     ATA ST10000NM0086-2A
>> SN05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
>> kernel: [586670.101114] sd 9:0:4:0: [sdk] 19532873728 512-byte logical
>> blocks: (10.0 TB/9.10 TiB)
>> kernel: [586670.101116] sd 9:0:4:0: [sdk] 4096-byte physical blocks
>> kernel: [586670.101125] sd 9:0:4:0: [sdk] Write Protect is off
>> kernel: [586670.101137] sd 9:0:4:0: [sdk] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
>> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>> kernel: [586670.101620] sd 9:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg10 type 0
>> kernel: [586670.101714] sas: DONE DISCOVERY on port 0, pid:2330731, result:0
>> kernel: [586670.101731] sas: sas_form_port: phy0 belongs to port0
>> already(1)!
>> kernel: [586670.152512] sd 9:0:4:0: [sdk] Attached SCSI disk
> 
> Looks like sdk was found properly, what's the problem?

Yes, this problem occurs occasionally. There is no exception log when 
scanning the disk, but the disk cannot be used. It has been confirmed 
that it is related to fio testing. When the dev node does not exist, fio 
may actively create this file.

> 
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Xingui Yang <yangxingui@...wei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/base/core.c | 5 ++++-
>>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
>>>> index 5f4e03336e68..32a41e0472b2 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
>>>> @@ -3691,7 +3691,10 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
>>>>    		if (error)
>>>>    			goto SysEntryError;
>>>> -		devtmpfs_create_node(dev);
>>>> +		error = devtmpfs_create_node(dev);
>>>> +		if (error)
>>>> +			pr_info("devtmpfs create node for %s failed: %d\n",
>>>> +				dev_name(dev), error);
>>>
>>> Why is an error message pr_info()?
>> Do you recommend using pr_err()?
> 
> Do not print errors at the information level :)
Ok.
> 
>>> And again, why is this needed?  If this needs to be checked, why are you
>>> now checking it but ignoring the error?
>>>
>>> What would this help with?
>> As above, we want to get the error info when the dev node fails to be
>> created. We currently haven't figured out how to handle this exception well.
>> But judging from the problems we are currently encountering, some may be
>> because the corresponding dev node already exists, causing the creation to
>> fail, but the node information is incorrect and the device cannot be used.
>> as follows:
>> [root@...alhost]# ll /dev/sdk
>> -rw-------. 1 root root 5368709120 Jul 8 09:51 /dev/sdk
> 
> Looks like the device node is created to me.  What is incorrect about
> it, the values?  What is 'll' an alias for?  And are you sure that other
> tools aren't getting the device node creation uevent and doing something
> with it in userspace?  How do you know this is the kernel failing?
> 
> Wait, is /dev/sdk really a device node and not a file?  Perhaps
> something else wrote to it first, before it was created?  And that's why
> devtmpfs couldn't create it.  That sounds like a userspace error,
> nothing the kernel can do about it.
Yes, /dev/sdk is a file that may create by fio. and I tried to do the 
same and could reproduce the problem, and after adding the log, it shows 
that the file already exists.

# ll /dev/sdc
-rw-------. 1 root root 5 Jul 22 00:04 /dev/sdc

[  366.306045] sas: ata8: end_device-4:1: model:ST2000NM0055-1V4104 
serial:            ZC21FDJ3
[  366.306991] scsi 4:0:8:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST2000NM0055-1V4 
TN05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[  366.307204] sd 4:0:8:0: [sdc] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: 
(2.00 TB/1.82 TiB)
[  366.307212] sd 4:0:8:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[  366.307213] sd 4:0:8:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[  366.307222] sd 4:0:8:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: 
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[  366.307308] sd 4:0:8:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  366.307354] sas: DONE DISCOVERY on port 1, pid:8, result:0
[  366.307364] sas: sas_form_port: phy1 belongs to port1 already(1)!
[  366.307384] devtmpfs create node for sdc failed: -17
[  366.307880] sd 4:0:8:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk

# lsscsi
[4:0:8:0]    disk    ATA      ST2000NM0055-1V4 TN05  -


If we want to solve this problem, should we delete the existing files 
first when creating a dev node? Or just print a prompt indicating that 
the dev node creation failed.

Thanks,
Xingui
.

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