On 2020/9/3 00:51, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02 2020 at 12:46pm -0400,
> Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 2020/9/3 00:44, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 02 2020 at 12:40pm -0400,
>>> Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2020/9/3 00:04, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>>>> 5.9 commit 231609785cbfb ("dax: print error message by pr_info() in
>>>>> __generic_fsdax_supported()") switched from pr_debug() to pr_info().
>>>>>
>>>>> The justification in the commit header is really inadequate. If there
>>>>> is a problem that you need to drill in on, repeat the testing after
>>>>> enabling the dynamic debugging.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise, now all DM devices that aren't layered on DAX capable devices
>>>>> spew really confusing noise to users when they simply activate their
>>>>> non-DAX DM devices:
>>>>>
>>>>> [66567.129798] dm-6: error: dax access failed (-5)
>>>>> [66567.134400] dm-6: error: dax access failed (-5)
>>>>> [66567.139152] dm-6: error: dax access failed (-5)
>>>>> [66567.314546] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.319380] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.324254] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.479025] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.483713] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.488722] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.494061] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.498823] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>> [66567.503693] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
>>>>>
>>>>> commit 231609785cbfb must be reverted.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please advise, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Adrian Huang from Lenovo posted a patch, which titled: dax: do not print
>>>> error message for non-persistent memory block device
>>>>
>>>> It fixes the issue, but no response for now. Maybe we should take this fix.
>>>
>>> OK, yes sounds like it. It was merged and is commit c2affe920b0e066
>>> ("dax: do not print error message for non-persistent memory block
>>> device")
>>
>> Thanks for informing me this patch is merged, I am going to update my
>> local one :-)
>
> So the thing is I'm running v5.9-rc3 (which includes this commit) but
> I'm still seeing all these warnings when I run the lvm2 testsuite. The
> reason _seems_ to be because the lvm2 testsuite uses brd devices for
> test devices. So there is something about the brd device that shows
> commit c2affe920b0e066 isn't enough :(
Let me take a look. Thanks for reminding me.
Coly Li
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