On 06/16, Vishal Verma wrote:
> These are early/RFC patches to add badblock support in xfs.
>
> Patch 1 should be relatively straightforward - it adds a notifier chain
> to badblocks that filesystems can register with.
>
> Patch 2 is the beginnings of xfs support. So far, I have the notifier
> registration and building the initial badblock list happening in
> xfs_mountfs. The next steps (and I may need some help with this as I'm
> no (x)fs developer :)) are to add this badblocks info to the reverse
> mapping tree, and then to check for it before accessing the media.
>
> Right now, this just prints the sector numbers/counts/{added, removed}
> to the kernel log, for both the initial list, and subsequent notifier
> hits.
>
> While I've tested this with a fake pmem device using libnvdimm's
> nfit_test framework, it should also work using badblock injection with
> any block device:
>
> # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/<device>
> # echo 122 1 > /sys/block/<device>/badblocks
> # echo 124 1 > /sys/block/<device>/badblocks
> # mount -t xfs /dev/<device> /mnt
> ... in log:
> [ +8.803776] XFS (pmem7): Mounting V4 Filesystem
> [ +0.009633] XFS (pmem7): Ending clean mount
> [ +0.001655] XFS (pmem7): got badblocks: sector 122, count 1
> [ +0.002018] XFS (pmem7): got badblocks: sector 124, count 1
>
> # echo 132 5 | > /sys/block/<device>/badblocks
> [Jun16 18:56] XFS (pmem7): xfs badblock added sector 132 (count 5)
>
> This is all based on Darrik's rmap work at:
> https://github.com/djwong/linux/tree/rmap-reflink-devel
>
> Since this is based on a v4.5-rc kernel, it lacks pmem support for
> clearing badblocks on zeroing/writing, so those parts can't easily
> be tested yet. The clearing work is in 4.7-rs kernels, and once we
> rebase to that, that should also be available.
Just fyi, These patches should also cleanly apply to Darrick's for-next
rebase:
https://github.com/djwong/linux/tree/djwong-devel
With this, I can now test badblock clearing also:
$ cat /sys/block/pmem7/badblocks
122 1
124 1
126 1
128 1
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/pmem7 bs=512 count=8 seek=120
oflag=direct
8+0 records in
8+0 records out
4096 bytes (4.1 kB) copied, 0.0206735 s, 198 kB/s
[ +9.510106] nd_pmem namespace7.0: pmem_clear_poison: 78 clear 1 sector
[ +0.001827] XFS (pmem7): xfs badblock cleared sector 120 (count 1)
[ +0.002772] nd_pmem namespace7.0: pmem_clear_poison: 7a clear 1 sector
[ +0.002527] XFS (pmem7): xfs badblock cleared sector 122 (count 1)
[ +0.003004] nd_pmem namespace7.0: pmem_clear_poison: 7c clear 1 sector
[ +0.002215] XFS (pmem7): xfs badblock cleared sector 124 (count 1)
[ +0.003063] nd_pmem namespace7.0: pmem_clear_poison: 7e clear 1 sector
[ +0.002307] XFS (pmem7): xfs badblock cleared sector 126 (count 1)
>
>
> Vishal Verma (2):
> block, badblocks: add a notifier for badblocks
> xfs: initial/partial support for badblocks
>
> block/badblocks.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h | 1 +
> fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 1 +
> include/linux/badblocks.h | 19 +++++++++
> 5 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.5.5
>
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