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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:30:11 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/133604: [gvinum] [panic] writing to gjournal on a gvinum volume
Message-ID:  <20090421093011.GB7771@mail.wheel.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200904191010.n3JAA6lk068313@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200904191010.n3JAA6lk068313@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:10:06AM +0000, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/133604; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>
> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: kern/133604: [gvinum] [panic] writing to gjournal on a gvinum
> 	volume
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:02:54 +0200
> 
>  On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:00:07AM +0000, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
>  > The following reply was made to PR kern/133604; it has been noted by GNATS.
>  > 
>  > From: Ulf Lilleengen <ulf.lilleengen@gmail.com>
>  > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org
>  > Cc:  
>  > Subject: Re: kern/133604: [gvinum] [panic] writing to gjournal on a gvinum 
>  > 	volume
>  > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:21:54 +0200
>  > 
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>  >  
>  >  On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:10 AM, <linimon@freebsd.org> wrote:
>  >  
>  >  > Old Synopsis: [panic] writing to gjournal on a gvinum volume
>  >  > New Synopsis: [gvinum] [panic] writing to gjournal on a gvinum volume
>  >  >
>  >  > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-geom
>  >  > Responsible-Changed-By: linimon
>  >  > Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Apr 11 22:10:10 UTC 2009
>  >  > Responsible-Changed-Why:
>  >  > Over to maintainer(s).
>  >  >
>  >  > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133604
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>  >  
>  >  
>  >  Are you able to try gvinum from HEAD to see if it works there? I'll take a
>  >  look into gvinum on 7.2-PRE as well, but just in case you would like to try
>  >  it.
>  >  
>  
>  Ok, I tracked down the issue. The problem is in both HEAD and 7.x, so I will
>  fix it in HEAD first. The problem is the bio_cflags part of the bio that
>  gjournal sends down to gvinum. When gjournal does a read, it sets GJ_BIO_READ
>  in bio_cflags. When the request arrives to gvinum it check cflags for
>  GV_BIO_DONE to check if the request is a done request, in which case it will
>  be treated like a bio of gvinum. The crash comes from GJ_BIO_READ having the
>  same value as GV_BIO_DONE. I'll generate a fix that makes gvinum not depend
>  on the bio_cflags value of external BIOs.

The bio_cflags field is for consumer use only (in this case gjournal. As
provide you should use bio_pflags.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!



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