[dm-devel] 2.6.3-udm4

[Kevin Corry]

On Friday 27 February 2004 3:41 pm, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2004 12:58 pm, Mike Christie wrote:
> > Joe Thornber wrote:
> > > http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.3/2.6.3
> > >-u dm4.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Note the mpath contructor args have changed again (no priority).
> >
> > I have been trying the latest dm-mpath patches, but when I fail a path
> > (pull a cord or disable a port) dm-mpath oops on queue_work for the
> > trigger_event work (if I do a addr2line it says it is in
> > __atomic_dec_and_test). The strange thing is if I just comment the
> > queue_work line out, in fail_path() it will hit a BUG() in the spin lock
> > code that tests the lock magic. I will post the oops when I get the
> > output from serial line, but has anyone had success with failover in the
> > current dm-mpath? This actually has occured for this release and udm3 w/
> > Joe's bio record patches.
>
> Yep, I just hit that as well. Looks to me like the path->pg->m pointer got
> munged. Actually...it looks like the m pointer never got initialized in the
> priority group. Yep....patch 11 from -udm4 removed
> __insert_priority_group(), which is where that pointer got initialized.
> Here's one possible patch which should fix it.

Failover is working fine on my system now with this patch.

-- 
Kevin Corry
kevcorry at us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/