Re: [PATCH] file-posix: allow -EBUSY errors during write zeros on block

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 02.03.2021 um 02:56 hat ChangLimin geschrieben:
> After Linux 5.10, write zeros to a multipath device using
> ioctl(fd, BLKZEROOUT, range) with cache none or directsync will return EBUSY.
> 
> Similar to handle_aiocb_write_zeroes_unmap, handle_aiocb_write_zeroes_block
> allow -EBUSY errors during ioctl(fd, BLKZEROOUT, range).
> 
> Reference commit in Linux 5.10:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=384d87ef2c954fc58e6c5fd8253e4a1984f5fe02
> 
> Signed-off-by: ChangLimin <changlm@chinatelecom.cn>
> ---
>  block/file-posix.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c
> index 05079b40ca..3e60c96214 100644
> --- a/block/file-posix.c
> +++ b/block/file-posix.c
> @@ -1629,8 +1629,13 @@ static ssize_t 
> handle_aiocb_write_zeroes_block(RawPosixAIOData *aiocb)
>          } while (errno == EINTR);
> 
>          ret = translate_err(-errno);
> -        if (ret == -ENOTSUP) {
> +        switch (ret) {
> +        case -ENOTSUP:
> +        case -EINVAL:
> +        case -EBUSY:
>              s->has_write_zeroes = false;

Do we actually want -EINVAL and -EBUSY to completely stop us from trying
again in future requests? -ENOTSUP will never change in future calls,
but can't -EINVAL and -EBUSY?

By the way, the commit message only explains -EBUSY. Why do we want to
cover -EINVAL here, too?

> +            return -ENOTSUP;

I suppose this is the important change: We convert the error codes to
-ENOTSUP now so that block.c will emulate the operation instead of
failing.  This should be explained in the commit message.

> +            break;
>          }
>      }
>  #endif

Kevin