Classify severity of I/O errors for target and transport errors. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-core.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/block/blk-core.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk-core.c +++ linux-2.6/block/blk-core.c @@ -2028,9 +2028,23 @@ bool blk_update_request(struct request * if (error && req->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_FS && !(req->cmd_flags & REQ_QUIET)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "end_request: I/O error, dev %s, sector %llu\n", - req->rq_disk ? req->rq_disk->disk_name : "?", - (unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(req)); + char *error_type; + + switch (error) { + case -ENOLINK: + error_type = "recoverable transport"; + break; + case -EREMOTEIO: + error_type = "critical target"; + break; + case -EIO: + default: + error_type = "I/O"; + break; + } + printk(KERN_ERR "end_request: %s error, dev %s, sector %llu\n", + error_type, req->rq_disk ? req->rq_disk->disk_name : "?", + (unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(req)); } blk_account_io_completion(req, nr_bytes); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html