3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> commit fafc7a815e40255d24e80a1cb7365892362fa398 upstream. Switch the thin pool to read-only mode when dm_thin_insert_block() fails since there is little reason to expect the cause of the failure to be resolved without further action by user space. This issue was noticed with the device-mapper-test-suite using: dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n /exhausting_metadata_space_causes_fail_mode/ The quantity of errors logged in this case must be reduced. before patch: device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block <snip ... these repeat for a long while ... > device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: space map common: dm_tm_shadow_block() failed device-mapper: thin: 253:4: no free metadata space available. device-mapper: thin: 253:4: switching pool to read-only mode after patch: device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block device-mapper: thin: 253:4: dm_thin_insert_block() failed: error = -28 device-mapper: thin: 253:4: switching pool to read-only mode Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c @@ -640,7 +640,9 @@ static void process_prepared_mapping(str */ r = dm_thin_insert_block(tc->td, m->virt_block, m->data_block); if (r) { - DMERR_LIMIT("dm_thin_insert_block() failed"); + DMERR_LIMIT("%s: dm_thin_insert_block() failed: error = %d", + dm_device_name(pool->pool_md), r); + set_pool_mode(pool, PM_READ_ONLY); cell_error(pool, m->cell); goto out; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html