commit 6cafb12dc85a5bdc722791cc5070968413264909
author Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Sat Oct 24 14:14:31 2009 +0200
committer Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Sat Oct 24 14:14:31 2009 +0200
tree a7891dfc10d23a6757034a2beeb422ba11088662
parent d995053d045d777e78ba7eba71a6a0733f3aa726

block: silently error unsupported empty barriers too

With 2.6.32-rc5 in a KVM guest using dm and virtio_blk, we see the
following errors:

  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0
  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0

The errors go away if dm stops submitting empty barriers, by reverting:

  commit 52b1fd5a27c625c78373e024bf570af3c9d44a79
  Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    dm: send empty barriers to targets in dm_flush

We should silently error all barriers, even empty barriers, on devices
like virtio_blk which don't support them.

See also:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/514901

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>