From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8E1C3279B for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38BA720883 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:23:38 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 38BA720883 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933690AbeGJOXf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:23:35 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:56816 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933384AbeGJOXe (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:23:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6A7981A4EBF; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:23:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from warthog.procyon.org.uk (ovpn-120-149.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.120.149]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0177A1102E1C; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20180710140127.20739-1-jlayton@kernel.org> References: <20180710140127.20739-1-jlayton@kernel.org> To: Jeff Layton Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, willy@infradead.org, andres@anarazel.de, cmaiolino@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] vfs: track per-sb writeback errors and report them via fsinfo() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2876.1531232609.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:23:29 +0100 Message-ID: <2877.1531232609@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.8]); Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:23:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.8]); Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:23:33 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.3' DOMAIN:'int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'dhowells@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Layton wrote: > v2: drop buffer.c patch to record wb errors when underlying blockdev > flush fails. We may eventually want that, but at this point I don't have > a clear way to test it to determine its efficacy. > > At LSF/MM this year, the PostgreSQL developers mentioned that they'd > like to have some mechanism to check whether there have been any > writeback errors on a filesystem, without necessarily flushing any of > the cached data first. > > Given that we have a new fsinfo syscall being introduced, we may as well > use it to report writeback errors on a per superblock basis. This allows > us to provide the info that the PostgreSQL developers wanted, without > needing to change an existing interface. > > This seems to do the right thing when tested by hand, but I don't yet > have an xfstest for it, since the syscall is still quite new. Once that > goes in and we get fsinfo support in xfs_io, it should be rather > trivial to roll a testcase for this. Reviewed-by: David Howells