Re: [PATCH 21/31] 11-dm-mpath.rules: Remember DM_ACTIVATION

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Hi Ben,

On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 16:19 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 12:38:50AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > If DM_ACTIVATION is set by the general dm rules, we need to
> > bring up this device. But if the mpath device is not ready,
> > that would be dangerous; it could hang or produce lots of IO
> > errors. So remember this state, and try to activate when the
> > map becomes usable later.
> 
> NAK. See reasons in
> 
> [PATCH 20/31] 11-dm-mpath.rules: don't set READY->ACTIVATION

Sorry for being slow. Re-reading this, I don't understand any more why
your valid argument against 20/31 invalidates this one as well. 21/31
affects only the case MPATH_DEVICE_READY!=0, in which case it will add
another case where DM_ACTIVATION is set.

Regards
Martin

> 
> -Ben
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  multipath/11-dm-mpath.rules | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/multipath/11-dm-mpath.rules b/multipath/11-dm-
> > mpath.rules
> > index 3f47744f..9bfd75f8 100644
> > --- a/multipath/11-dm-mpath.rules
> > +++ b/multipath/11-dm-mpath.rules
> > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ENV{DM_UUID}!="mpath-?*", GOTO="mpath_end"
> >  
> >  IMPORT{db}="DM_DISABLE_OTHER_RULES_FLAG_OLD"
> >  IMPORT{db}="MPATH_DEVICE_READY"
> > +IMPORT{db}="MPATH_NEEDS_ACTIVATION"
> >  
> >  # If this uevent didn't come from dm, don't try to update the
> >  # device state
> > @@ -55,6 +56,13 @@ ENV{DM_SUBSYSTEM_UDEV_FLAG0}=="1",
> > ENV{DM_ACTIVATION}="0"
> >  # We'd like to avoid this, especially within udev processing.
> >  ENV{MPATH_DEVICE_READY}=="0", ENV{DM_NOSCAN}="1"
> >  
> > +# If DM_ACTIVATION is set, but can't be satisfied, remember it
> > +# in MPATH_NEEDS_ACTIVATION, and activate at the next opportunity.
> > +ENV{MPATH_DEVICE_READY}=="0", ENV{DM_ACTIVATION}=="1", \
> > +	ENV{MPATH_NEEDS_ACTIVATION}="1", ENV{DM_ACTIVATION}="0"
> > +ENV{MPATH_DEVICE_READY}!="0", ENV{MPATH_NEEDS_ACTIVATION}=="1", \
> > +	ENV{DM_ACTIVATION}="1", ENV{MPATH_NEEDS_ACTIVATION}=""
> > +
> >  # Also skip all foreign rules if no path is available.
> >  # Remember the original value of DM_DISABLE_OTHER_RULES_FLAG
> >  # and restore it back once we have at least one path available.
> > -- 
> > 2.14.0
> 
> 

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