On 22/11/2017 9:14 PM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > Am 22.11.2017 um 13:57 schrieb Coly Li: >> On 22/11/2017 8:26 PM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: >>> >>> Am 22.11.2017 um 13:16 schrieb Coly Li: >>>> On 22/11/2017 7:23 PM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> i've 6 bcache blk devices attached to 3 caching ssds (2 each). One fails >>>>> to register automatically at boot time. >>>>> >>>>> After reboot i always need to execute: >>>>> echo /dev/sdf1 >/sys/fs/bcache/register >>>>> >>>>> to bring up the bcache device. >>>>> >>>>> Any idea? >>>> >>>> Hi Stefan, >>>> >>>> Is there any clue from kernel message ? >>> >>> Sadly not. >>> >>> Working one: >>> ]# dmesg | grep sdi >>> [ 1.060377] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdi] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: >>> (1.00 TB/932 GiB) >>> [ 1.060393] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdi] Write Protect is off >>> [ 1.060396] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdi] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 >>> [ 1.060425] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdi] Write cache: enabled, read cache: >>> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA >>> [ 1.104341] sdi: sdi1 >>> [ 1.104644] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdi] Attached SCSI disk >>> [ 2.005452] bcache: register_bdev() registered backing device sdi1 >>> [ 2.045211] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Caching sdi1 as bcache0 >>> on set 76b95bf8-9cc7-407f-9f9e-a42b6d1bcb27 >>> >>> >>> not working one: >>> # dmesg | grep sdf >>> [ 0.946107] sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: >>> (1.00 TB/932 GiB) >>> [ 1.400267] sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off >>> [ 1.400267] sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 >>> [ 1.401347] sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: >>> enabled, supports DPO and FUA >>> [ 1.902910] sdf: sdf1 >>> [ 2.341289] sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk >>> [ 295.458804] bcache: register_bdev() registered backing device sdf1 >>> [ 295.506656] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Caching sdf1 as bcache5 >>> on set 76b95bf8-9cc7-407f-9f9e-a42b6d1bcb27 >>> >>> At 295s i registeeed it manually. >> >> Hi Stefan, >> >> Hmm, I don't have idea here. Anyway, is the cache mode set as writeback? >> Recently I post a patch to fix a potential deadlock between writeback >> rate update kworker and register code, I am not sure whether it is >> relative to your issue, but at least we can have a try. the patch title is: >> [RFC] bcache: fix a circular dead locking with dc->writeback_lock and >> bch_register_lock >> >> Just for your information. > > i can try that one - can you please resend? I can't find that mail and > don't know how to grab that one our of the web html archives to apply > correctly. Hi Stefan, Can you download the patch from following URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/colyli/bcache-patches.git/plain/for-test/0001-bcache-fix-a-circular-dead-locking-with-dc-writeback.patch Coly Li -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html