[PATCH] i2o: block IO errors on i2o disk
I2O subsystem has been broken in mainstream several months ago (after
2.6.18). Commit 4aff5e2333c9a1609662f2091f55c3f6fffdad36 from Jens
Axboe split struct request ->flags into two parts: cmd_type and
cmd_flags.
In i2o layer this patch has replaced flag REQ_SPECIAL by the according
cmd_type. However i2o has used REQ_SPECIAL not as command type but as
driver-specific flag for the debug purposes. As result all i2o requests
have type "special" now, are not processed to the hardware and fail with
I/O error:
i2o/hda:<3>Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0
unable to read partition table
block-osm: device added (TID: 207): i2o/hda
The following patch removes the extra debug checks without any drawbacks and
restores the normal driver's work.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
index da9859f..b17c4b2 100644
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c
@@ -390,13 +390,6 @@
return BLKPREP_KILL;
}
- /* request is already processed by us, so return */
- if (blk_special_request(req)) {
- osm_debug("REQ_SPECIAL already set!\n");
- req->cmd_flags |= REQ_DONTPREP;
- return BLKPREP_OK;
- }
-
/* connect the i2o_block_request to the request */
if (!req->special) {
ireq = i2o_block_request_alloc();
@@ -408,11 +401,8 @@
ireq->i2o_blk_dev = i2o_blk_dev;
req->special = ireq;
ireq->req = req;
- } else
- ireq = req->special;
-
+ }
/* do not come back here */
- req->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL;
req->cmd_flags |= REQ_DONTPREP;
return BLKPREP_OK;