From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: John Dorminy <jdorminy@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: block: be more careful about status in __bio_chain_endio
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:01:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190612070110.GA11707@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMeeMh-6KMLgriX_7KT52ynjBMyT9yDWSMKv6YXW+yDpvv0=wA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:56:42PM -0400, John Dorminy wrote:
> I believe the second of these might, but is not guaranteed to,
> preserve the first error observed in a child; I believe if you want to
> definitely save the first error you need an atomic.
Is there any reason not to simply use a cmpxchg? Yes, it is a
relatively expensive operation, but once we are chaining bios we are out
of the super hot path anyway. We do something similar in xfs and iomap
already.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-12 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 13:02 DM Regression in 4.16-rc1 - read() returns data when it shouldn't Milan Broz
2018-02-14 20:39 ` NeilBrown
2018-02-14 23:05 ` Mike Snitzer
2018-02-15 0:07 ` [dm-devel] " NeilBrown
2018-02-15 7:37 ` Milan Broz
2018-02-15 8:52 ` NeilBrown
2018-02-15 9:00 ` [PATCH] dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec_pending() NeilBrown
2018-02-15 9:01 ` [RFC PATCH] dm: don't assign zero to ->bi_status of an active bio NeilBrown
2018-02-15 9:09 ` [PATCH] block: be more careful about status in __bio_chain_endio NeilBrown
2019-02-22 21:10 ` Mike Snitzer
2019-02-22 22:46 ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-22 23:55 ` Mike Snitzer
2019-02-23 2:02 ` John Dorminy
2019-02-23 2:44 ` Mike Snitzer
2019-02-23 3:10 ` John Dorminy
2019-06-12 2:56 ` John Dorminy
2019-06-12 7:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-06-17 7:32 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-02-19 13:44 ` DM Regression in 4.16-rc1 - read() returns data when it shouldn't Thorsten Leemhuis
2018-02-19 17:15 ` Mike Snitzer
2018-02-26 10:14 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2018-02-26 11:01 ` NeilBrown
2018-02-26 17:31 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
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