On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:14:07PM +0300, Janne Huttunen wrote: > > Please consider the two upstream commits below for the 4.14.y > branch. > > As a part of an automated test setup, we deploy a disk image into > various types of hardware. With the current 4.14.y kernel and > certain hardware configurations, the first attempt to write the > image to the disk always fails with 'Remote I/O error'. Retrying > the exact same command then always succeeds. The second patch > below fixes this issue allowing the first attempt to work. It > requires the first patch to compile without errors. > > > commit 425a4dba7953e35ffd096771973add6d2f40d2ed > Author: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Oct 16 15:59:09 2017 +0200 > block: factor out __blkdev_issue_zero_pages() > > > commit d5ce4c31d6df518dd8f63bbae20d7423c5018a6c > Author: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Oct 16 15:59:10 2017 +0200 > block: cope with WRITE ZEROES failing in blkdev_issue_zeroout() Now queued up, thanks.
