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authorLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>2011-01-24 14:47:09 +0100
committerPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>2011-03-10 11:48:10 +0100
commit10f6d9926cd17afff9dc03c967706419798b4929 (patch)
tree7b1cd4bfcffbb3832c756ce29861411f7300aadd /drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
parentdrbd: Removed left over, now wrong comments (diff)
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drbd: don't BUG_ON, if bio_add_page of a single page to an empty bio fails
Just deal with it more gracefully, if we fail to add even a single page to an empty bio. We used to BUG_ON() there, but it has been observed in some Xen deployment, so we need to handle that case more robustly now. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
index ff0eb308ee4a..cfd324b9f95b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
@@ -369,9 +369,10 @@ static int read_for_csum(struct drbd_conf *mdev, sector_t sector, int size)
if (drbd_submit_ee(mdev, e, READ, DRBD_FAULT_RS_RD) == 0)
return 0;
- /* drbd_submit_ee currently fails for one reason only:
- * not being able to allocate enough bios.
- * Is dropping the connection going to help? */
+ /* If it failed because of ENOMEM, retry should help. If it failed
+ * because bio_add_page failed (probably broken lower level driver),
+ * retry may or may not help.
+ * If it does not, you may need to force disconnect. */
spin_lock_irq(&mdev->req_lock);
list_del(&e->w.list);
spin_unlock_irq(&mdev->req_lock);