[PATCH 1/5] nvme: Add more command status translation

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Mon Jan 8 07:34:36 PST 2018


On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:29:33AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> No argument needed.  Definitely needs fixing.  Too many upper layers
> consider BLK_STS_NOSPC retryable (XFS, ext4, dm-thinp, etc).  Which
> NVME_SC_LBA_RANGE absolutely isn't.
> 
> When I backfilled NVME_SC_LBA_RANGE handling I categorized it as
> BLK_STS_TARGET.  Do you have a better suggestion for how
> NVME_SC_LBA_RANGE should be categorized?

It's basically a kernel bug as it tries to access lbas that do not
exist.  BLK_STS_TARGET should be fine.



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