Thread (180 messages) 180 messages, 22 authors, 2006-08-22

Re: [take8 1/2] kevent: Core files.

From: Jeff Carr <hidden>
Date: 2006-08-13 00:50:15
Also in: lkml

On 08/11/06 01:40, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
+/*
+ * Inode events.
+ */
+#define	KEVENT_INODE_CREATE	0x1
+#define	KEVENT_INODE_REMOVE	0x2
It would be useful to have gnome/kde notification when hard drives start
failing. There was some talk in the past about how to implement that
with kobjects. Perhaps you could add for this purpose:

#define	KEVENT_BLOCK_CREATE	0x1
#define	KEVENT_BLOCK_REMOVE	0x2
#define	KEVENT_BLOCK_ERROR	0x4

AFAICT:
The conversation concluded this is the best way to handle ioerrors:
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ static void buffer_io_error(struct buffe
 	printk(KERN_ERR "Buffer I/O error on device %s, logical block %Lu\n",
 			bdevname(bh->b_bdev, b),
 			(unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
+
+	kevent_block_error(&bh->b_bdev->bd_disk->kobj);
 }

 /*
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -252,8 +252,11 @@ static void finished_one_bio(struct dio
 				transferred = dio->i_size - offset;

 			/* check for error in completion path */
-			if (dio->io_error)
+			if (dio->io_error) {
 				transferred = dio->io_error;
+				kevent_block_error(
+				&dio->bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk->kobj);
+			}

 			dio_complete(dio, offset, transferred);
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