tree f54629b2dab7a4bf86660b9ea9a4989ec0671636
parent 62c789270c0b1ed5598c6b87c53b6908cd3c6eb5
author Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com> 1597851756 +0800
committer Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> 1597945398 -0600

dax: do not print error message for non-persistent memory block device

Commit 231609785cbf ("dax: print error message by pr_info()
in __generic_fsdax_supported()") happens to print the following
error message during booting when the non-persistent memory block
devices are configured by device mapper. Those error messages are
caused by the variable 'dax_dev' is NULL. Users might be confused
with those error messages since they do not use the persistent
memory device. Moreover, users might scare about "what's wrong
with my disks" because they see the 'error' and 'failed' keywords.

  # dmesg | grep fail
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdk3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)
  sdb3: error: dax access failed (-95)

  # lsblk
  NAME            MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
  sda               8:0    0   1.1T  0 disk
  ├─sda1            8:1    0   156M  0 part
  ├─sda2            8:2    0    40G  0 part
  └─sda3            8:3    0   1.1T  0 part
  sdb               8:16   0   1.1T  0 disk
  ├─sdb1            8:17   0   600M  0 part
  ├─sdb2            8:18   0     1G  0 part
  └─sdb3            8:19   0   1.1T  0 part
    ├─rhel00-swap 254:3    0     4G  0 lvm
    ├─rhel00-home 254:4    0     1T  0 lvm
    └─rhel00-root 254:5    0    50G  0 lvm
  sdc               8:32   0   1.1T  0 disk
  sdd               8:48   0   1.1T  0 disk
  sde               8:64   0   1.1T  0 disk
  sdf               8:80   0   1.1T  0 disk
  sdg               8:96   0   1.1T  0 disk
  sdh               8:112  0   3.3T  0 disk
  ├─sdh1            8:113  0   500M  0 part /boot/efi
  ├─sdh2            8:114  0    40G  0 part /
  ├─sdh3            8:115  0   2.9T  0 part /home
  └─sdh4            8:116  0 314.6G  0 part [SWAP]
  sdi               8:128  0   1.1T  0 disk
  sdj               8:144  0   3.3T  0 disk
  ├─sdj1            8:145  0   512M  0 part
  └─sdj2            8:146  0   3.3T  0 part
  sdk               8:160  0 119.2G  0 disk
  ├─sdk1            8:161  0   200M  0 part
  ├─sdk2            8:162  0     1G  0 part
  └─sdk3            8:163  0   118G  0 part
    ├─rhel-swap   254:0    0     4G  0 lvm
    ├─rhel-home   254:1    0    64G  0 lvm
    └─rhel-root   254:2    0    50G  0 lvm
  sdl               8:176  0 119.2G  0 disk

The call path is shown as follows:
  dm_table_determine_type
    dm_table_supports_dax
     device_supports_dax
       generic_fsdax_supported
        __generic_fsdax_supported

With the disk configuration listing from the command 'lsblk',
the member 'dev->dax_dev' of the block devices 'sdb3' and 'sdk3'
(configured by device mapper) is NULL in function
generic_fsdax_supported() because the member is configured in
function open_table_device().

To prevent the confusing error messages in this scenario (this is
normal behavior), just print those error messages by pr_debug()
by checking if dax_dev is NULL and the block device does not support
DAX.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819154236.24191-1-adrianhuang0701@gmail.com
Fixes: 231609785cbf ("dax: print error message by pr_info() in __generic_fsdax_supported()")
Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>