changeloop brokenness test case

[Jeremy Katz]

(Background:  Since Red Hat Linux 7.0, we've added a kernel patch to
allow switching the backing store for a loopback device which gets used
so that CD installs can switch CDs.  This has been ported to 2.6, but
currently isn't working and is blocking test1.  In the interest of maybe
more eyes seeing something, here's the test case I sent to Al)

Attached is a simple test program that can be used in reproduce the hang
when we changeloop.

Steps are
1) Copy some image you can loopback mount to /tmp/loop.img (doesn't
matter what, you can even just dd /dev/zero and mke2fs it)
2) losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/loop.img
3) mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/tmp -o loop,ro
4) cp /tmp/loop.img /tmp/new.img
5) ./testchangeloop /dev/loop0 /tmp/new.img

And watch the process spin in disk wait

Jeremy

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:32:50PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  (Background:  Since Red Hat Linux 7.0, we've added a kernel patch
> to
>  allow switching the backing store for a loopback device which gets used
>  so that CD installs can switch CDs.  This has been ported to 2.6, but
>  currently isn't working and is blocking test1.  In the interest of maybe
>  more eyes seeing something, here's the test case I sent to Al) 
Any chance you could also post the kernel patch?

thanks,

greg k-h

[Bill Nottingham]

Greg KH (greg(a)kroah.com) said: 
>  On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:32:50PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  > (Background:  Since Red Hat Linux 7.0, we've added a kernel patch to
>  > allow switching the backing store for a loopback device which gets used
>  > so that CD installs can switch CDs.  This has been ported to 2.6, but
>  > currently isn't working and is blocking test1.  In the interest of maybe
>  > more eyes seeing something, here's the test case I sent to Al)
>  
>  Any chance you could also post the kernel patch? 
Al Viro found the fix. Here's the attached fixed version in
all its 'glory', for your amusement (or something).

Bill