On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:08:59AM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > I think this is simply because I omitted the iterate_devices callback in > the thinp target. > > I'll try and find time to test this patch later this week. This patch already creashes when creating the table: qemu1:~# dmsetup create thin-volume table.txt [ 15.186662] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000010 [ 15.189266] IP: [<c0863b1f>] thinp_metadata_get_data_block_size+0xf/0x50 [ 15.189266] *pde = 00000000 [ 15.189266] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 15.189266] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/dm-0/removable [ 15.189266] Modules linked in: [ 15.189266] [ 15.189266] Pid: 2027, comm: dmsetup Not tainted 2.6.37+ #99 /Bochs [ 15.189266] EIP: 0060:[<c0863b1f>] EFLAGS: 00010292 CPU: 0 [ 15.189266] EIP is at thinp_metadata_get_data_block_size+0xf/0x50 [ 15.189266] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000200 EDX: f5f33da8 [ 15.189266] ESI: f5a40140 EDI: c0862ba0 EBP: f5f33da0 ESP: f5f33d98 [ 15.189266] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 15.189266] Process dmsetup (pid: 2027, ti=f5f32000 task=f6616040 task.ti=f5f32000) [ 15.189266] Stack: [ 15.189266] f5f33e04 f5a40140 f5f33db0 c0863940 09200000 00000000 f5f33dc0 c0863982 [ 15.189266] f8522040 00000000 f5f33e4c c084d864 f5f33de4 c015db89 00000000 00000000 [ 15.189266] 00000000 f6802b40 f58cb9c0 f5f33e08 c017fed1 00000000 00000000 f5f33e64 [ 15.189266] Call Trace: [ 15.189266] [<c0863940>] data_dev_block_size+0x10/0x30 [ 15.189266] [<c0863982>] thinp_io_hints+0x22/0x40 [ 15.189266] [<c084d864>] dm_calculate_queue_limits+0xa4/0x140 [ 15.189266] [<c015db89>] ? complete+0x49/0x60 [ 15.189266] [<c017fed1>] ? flush_workqueue_prep_cwqs+0x71/0x1f0 [ 15.189266] [<c084badb>] dm_swap_table+0x4b/0x1c0 [ 15.189266] [<c018585c>] ? remove_wait_queue+0x3c/0x50 [ 15.189266] [<c084ffa8>] dev_suspend+0xe8/0x1f0 [ 15.189266] [<c06535de>] ? copy_to_user+0x2e/0x50 [ 15.189266] [<c0850bbb>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x16b/0x210 [ 15.189266] [<c01edc93>] ? __pte_alloc+0x93/0xb0 [ 15.189266] [<c084fec0>] ? dev_suspend+0x0/0x1f0 [ 15.189266] [<c0850a50>] ? dm_ctl_ioctl+0x0/0x210 [ 15.189266] [<c02146c9>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x79/0x580 [ 15.189266] [<c064a9fd>] ? kobject_put+0x1d/0x50 [ 15.189266] [<c021821a>] ? dput+0x1a/0x230 [ 15.189266] [<c021e220>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x20/0xf0 [ 15.189266] [<c021e303>] ? mntput+0x13/0x20 [ 15.189266] [<c0207b4d>] ? fput+0x12d/0x1d0 [ 15.189266] [<c0608470>] ? sys_ipc+0x80/0x220 [ 15.189266] [<c0214c09>] sys_ioctl+0x39/0x70 [ 15.189266] [<c099dac9>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel