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Message-ID: <20240830122831.0000127d@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:28:31 +0200
From: Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@...ux.intel.com>
To: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc: mariusz.tkaczyk@...el.com, song@...nel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yukuai3@...wei.com, yi.zhang@...wei.com,
yangerkun@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH md-6.12 3/7] md: don't record new badblocks for faulty
rdev
On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:27:17 +0800
Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com> wrote:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>
> Faulty will be checked before issuing IO to the rdev, however, rdev can
> be faulty at any time, hence it's possible that rdev_set_badblocks()
> will be called for faulty rdev. In this case, mddev->sb_flags will be
> set and some other path can be blocked by updating super block.
>
> Since faulty rdev will not be accesed anymore, there is no need to
> record new babblocks for faulty rdev and forcing updating super block.
>
> Noted this is not a bugfix, just prevent updating superblock in some
> corner cases, and will help to slice a bug related to external
> metadata[1].
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/f34452df-810b-48b2-a9b4-7f925699a9e7@linux.intel.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
> ---
> drivers/md/md.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
> index 675d89597c7b..a3f7f407fe42 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> @@ -9757,6 +9757,10 @@ int rdev_set_badblocks(struct md_rdev *rdev, sector_t
> s, int sectors, {
> struct mddev *mddev = rdev->mddev;
> int rv;
> +
> + if (test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags))
> + return 1;
> +
Blame is volatile, this is why we need a comment here :)
Otherwise, someone may remove that.
Thanks,
Mariusz
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