In preparation for checking whether the architecture has data cache
aliasing within alloc_dax(), modify the error handling of dm alloc_dev()
to treat alloc_dax() failure as non-fatal.
Fixes: d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing
caches")
Suggested-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
---
drivers/md/dm.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 23c32cd1f1d8..f90743a94da9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -2126,12 +2126,12 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
md->dax_dev = alloc_dax(md, &dm_dax_ops);
if (IS_ERR(md->dax_dev)) {
md->dax_dev = NULL;
- goto bad;
+ } else {
+ set_dax_nocache(md->dax_dev);
+ set_dax_nomc(md->dax_dev);
+ if (dax_add_host(md->dax_dev, md->disk))
+ goto bad;
}
- set_dax_nocache(md->dax_dev);
- set_dax_nomc(md->dax_dev);
- if (dax_add_host(md->dax_dev, md->disk))
- goto bad;
}
format_dev_t(md->name, MKDEV(_major, minor));
--
2.39.2
