Hi Laurent,
Laurent Riffard wrote:
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
...
works for me with 2.6.17-4mdv kernel
maybe something related to your kernel version?
Yes, you seem to be right: it does work with 2.6.17-2mdv or 2.6.17-4mdv,
but it fails with 2.6.18-rc6-mm1.
I reproduced the problem on my host, too.
I found a change in -mm which would cause this problem
and attached patch fixed it.
I'll post it to linux-kernel as well.
Thanks,
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Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation of America
If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list,
add_bd_holder() completes its job by just incrementing the reference count.
In this case, it should be considered as success but it used to return 'fail'
to let the caller free bd_holder.
Fixed it to return success and free given object by itself.
Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not
be added to the list so that it can be discarded later.
Otherwise, the caller will free bd_holder which is in the list.
This patch is neccessary only for -mm (later than 2.6.18-rc1-mm1).
fs/block_dev.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff -urp linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1.orig/fs/block_dev.c linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/fs/block_dev.c
--- linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1.orig/fs/block_dev.c 2006-09-11 19:33:35.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/fs/block_dev.c 2006-09-11 19:21:46.000000000 -0400
@@ -655,8 +655,8 @@ static void free_bd_holder(struct bd_hol
* If there is no matching entry with @bo in @bdev->bd_holder_list,
* add @bo to the list, create symlinks.
*
- * Returns 0 if @bo was added to the list.
- * Returns -ve if @bo wasn't used by any reason and should be freed.
+ * Returns 0 if symlinks are created or already there.
+ * Returns -ve if something fails and @bo can be freed.
*/
static int add_bd_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct bd_holder *bo)
{
@@ -669,7 +669,9 @@ static int add_bd_holder(struct block_de
list_for_each_entry(tmp, &bdev->bd_holder_list, list) {
if (tmp->sdir == bo->sdir) {
tmp->count++;
- return -EEXIST;
+ /* We've already done what we need to do here. */
+ free_bd_holder(bo);
+ return 0;
}
}
@@ -682,7 +684,8 @@ static int add_bd_holder(struct block_de
if (ret)
del_symlink(bo->sdir, bo->sdev);
}
- list_add_tail(&bo->list, &bdev->bd_holder_list);
+ if (ret == 0)
+ list_add_tail(&bo->list, &bdev->bd_holder_list);
return ret;
}
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