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Subject[PATCH 4.19 186/271] bcache: ignore read-ahead request failure on backing device
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From: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

commit 578df99b1b0531d19af956530fe4da63d01a1604 upstream.

When md raid device (e.g. raid456) is used as backing device, read-ahead
requests on a degrading and recovering md raid device might be failured
immediately by md raid code, but indeed this md raid array can still be
read or write for normal I/O requests. Therefore such failed read-ahead
request are not real hardware failure. Further more, after degrading and
recovering accomplished, read-ahead requests will be handled by md raid
array again.

For such condition, I/O failures of read-ahead requests don't indicate
real health status (because normal I/O still be served), they should not
be counted into I/O error counter dc->io_errors.

Since there is no simple way to detect whether the backing divice is a
md raid device, this patch simply ignores I/O failures for read-ahead
bios on backing device, to avoid bogus backing device failure on a
degrading md raid array.

Suggested-and-tested-by: Thorsten Knabe <linux@thorsten-knabe.de>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/md/bcache/io.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/bcache/io.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/io.c
@@ -58,6 +58,18 @@ void bch_count_backing_io_errors(struct

WARN_ONCE(!dc, "NULL pointer of struct cached_dev");

+ /*
+ * Read-ahead requests on a degrading and recovering md raid
+ * (e.g. raid6) device might be failured immediately by md
+ * raid code, which is not a real hardware media failure. So
+ * we shouldn't count failed REQ_RAHEAD bio to dc->io_errors.
+ */
+ if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_RAHEAD) {
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: Read-ahead I/O failed on backing device, ignore",
+ dc->backing_dev_name);
+ return;
+ }
+
errors = atomic_add_return(1, &dc->io_errors);
if (errors < dc->error_limit)
pr_err("%s: IO error on backing device, unrecoverable",

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