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![]() In struct dax_operations, the callback routine dax_supported() returns a bool type result. For false return value, the caller has no idea whether the device does not support dax at all, or it is just some mis- configuration issue. An example is formatting an Ext4 file system on pmem device on top of a NVDIMM namespace by, # mkfs.ext4 /dev/pmem0 If the fs block size does not match kernel space memory page size (which is possible on non-x86 platform), mount this Ext4 file system will fail, # mount -o dax /dev/pmem0 /mnt mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/pmem0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. And from the dmesg output there is only the following information, [ 307.853148] EXT4-fs (pmem0): DAX unsupported by block device. The above information is quite confusing. Because definitely the pmem0 device supports dax operation, and the super block is consistent as how it was created by mkfs.ext4. Indeed the failure is from __generic_fsdax_supported() by the following code piece, if (blocksize != PAGE_SIZE) { pr_debug("%s: error: unsupported blocksize for dax\n", bdevname(bdev, buf)); return false; } It is because the Ext4 block size is 4KB and kernel page size is 8KB or 16KB. It is not simple to make dax_supported() from struct dax_operations or __generic_fsdax_supported() to return exact failure type right now. So the simplest fix is to use pr_info() to print all the error messages inside __generic_fsdax_supported(). Then users may find informative clue from the kernel message at least. Message printed by pr_debug() is very easy to be ignored by users. This patch prints error message by pr_info() in __generic_fsdax_supported(), when then mount fails, following lines can be found from dmesg output, [ 2705.500885] pmem0: error: unsupported blocksize for dax [ 2705.500888] EXT4-fs (pmem0): DAX unsupported by block device. Now the users may have idea the mount failure is from pmem driver for unsupported block size. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200725162450.95999-1-colyli@suse.de Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiopoulos@suse.com> Reported-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.com> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.