Re: end_request error procedure in 2.5?

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:54:44 +0200


On Mon, Sep 16 2002, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Can someone tell me why this block end_request routine works fine with a
> request that isn't errored, but locks the machine a milisecond or two
> later if the request is marked for erroring?
>
> call as
>
> end_request( req, (req->errors == 0) ? 1 : 0 );
> ..
>
> static void end_request(struct request *req, int uptodate) {
> struct bio *bio;
> while ((bio = req->bio) != NULL) {
> blk_finished_io(bio_sectors(bio));
> req->bio = bio->bi_next;
> bio->bi_next = NULL;
> bio_endio(bio, uptodate);
> }
> blk_put_request(req);
> }
>
>
> It works fine except on error. Kernel 2.5.31. I understand that
> put_request adds the request back to a free list (if gotten from there
> via get_request). The request is ordinary, except out of range ...
> it's produced by an e2fsck of the device when the device itself is
> unformatted, and the out of range request gets passed to the driver and
> is errored there, and "kapow" ..

The error is most likely in the driver calling end_that_request_first(),
not the function itself. Maybe you can try to do at least some
debugging, I hope you are not expecting anyone to be able to help you
from the above report.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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