Bug 155428

Summary:

kernel dm-multipath: Improve error logging

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb>

Component:

device-mapper-multipath

Assignee:

Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb>

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CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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medium

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medium

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rawhide

CC:

agk, bmarzins, christophe.varoqui, dmo, dwysocha, tranlan

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2021-07-30 18:34:17 UTC

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171044, 171408

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Description	Flags
Suggested patch to improve the logging situation	none
Updated patch	none

Description Lars Marowsky-Bree 2005-04-20 09:09:18 UTC

Device Mapper has a slight communication problem if accidentially misconfigured,
or if something goes wrong. It tends to silently throw an error upwards, or even
report gems such as "Unknown error".

The attached patch is a first step towards actually logging what went wrong and
providing more information in the logs.

Comment 1 Lars Marowsky-Bree 2005-04-20 09:09:18 UTC

Created attachment 113397 [details]
Suggested patch to improve the logging situation

Comment 2 Lars Marowsky-Bree 2005-04-21 10:44:24 UTC

Created attachment 113462 [details]
Updated patch

Do not try to print pgpath->path.dev->name when pgpath == NULL. Smart idea, eh?
;)

Comment 3 Alasdair Kergon 2005-04-21 19:07:19 UTC

I'll add this to 2.6.12-rc2-udm1 for now, but we need to tidy it more before
sending it upstream.

e.g. DMWARN("dm-emc: emc_endio: pg_init error %d", error);
     DMWARN("dm-emc: emc_endio: Found valid sense data %06x", sense);
     DMWARN("dm-emc: emc_endio: Array Based Copy in progress");

could fit into a single line:
   maybe "dm-emc: emc_endio: pg_init error %d (sense %06x): Array-based copy in
progress"

Comment 4 Lars Marowsky-Bree 2005-04-21 19:44:18 UTC

Good point. Yes, this needs more cleaning up and in particular also:

a) Rate-limitting; right now it'll trigger once for every bio, even though they
are part of the same SCSI request; if they could be joined well, that could be
quite substantial amounts of logging and quite flood the console. It'd be
interesting if we could figure out a way to only print it _once_ for every
request (ie, once for every real error).

(w/o keeping a complete history, we could try and only print it if this bio
belonged to a different request than the last bio we handled; that'll still
cause some excessive logging, but only if end_io is interleaved, which will be
much better already.)

Question is how to do figure out which request a bio belongs to. Another
alternative might be to only print if it's a new error on the same path or if
the last error on that path has been reported NNN jiffies back.

Comments solicited, maybe we want to discuss on the list too.

b) Identify more "interesting" places where to log from a support perspective:
What information will we need to track down problems in the field?