[dm-devel] flood of "dm-X: error: dax access failed" due to 5.9 commit 231609785cbfb

Mike Snitzer snitzer at redhat.com
Wed Sep 2 16:04:32 UTC 2020


5.9 commit 231609785cbfb ("dax: print error message by pr_info() in
__generic_fsdax_supported()") switched from pr_debug() to pr_info().

The justification in the commit header is really inadequate.  If there
is a problem that you need to drill in on, repeat the testing after
enabling the dynamic debugging.

Otherwise, now all DM devices that aren't layered on DAX capable devices
spew really confusing noise to users when they simply activate their
non-DAX DM devices:

[66567.129798] dm-6: error: dax access failed (-5)
[66567.134400] dm-6: error: dax access failed (-5)
[66567.139152] dm-6: error: dax access failed (-5)
[66567.314546] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.319380] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.324254] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.479025] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.483713] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.488722] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.494061] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.498823] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)
[66567.503693] dm-2: error: dax access failed (-95)

commit 231609785cbfb must be reverted.

Please advise, thanks.
Mike




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