From: Mikulas Patocka Introduce "flush failed" variable. When flush before clearing a bit in the log fails, we don't know anything about which which regions are in-sync and which not. So we'll set all regions as not-in-sync, set the variable "flush_failed" that will prevent setting the in-sync bit in the future. A target reload is the only way how to get out of this situation. The variable will be set in further patches. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka --- drivers/md/dm-log.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.30/drivers/md/dm-log.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.30.orig/drivers/md/dm-log.c +++ linux-2.6.30/drivers/md/dm-log.c @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ struct log_c { struct dm_target *ti; int touched_dirtied; int touched_cleaned; + int flush_failed; uint32_t region_size; unsigned int region_count; region_t sync_count; @@ -393,6 +394,7 @@ static int create_log_context(struct dm_ lc->ti = ti; lc->touched_dirtied = 0; lc->touched_cleaned = 0; + lc->flush_failed = 0; lc->region_size = region_size; lc->region_count = region_count; lc->sync = sync; @@ -705,7 +707,8 @@ static void core_mark_region(struct dm_d static void core_clear_region(struct dm_dirty_log *log, region_t region) { struct log_c *lc = (struct log_c *) log->context; - log_set_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, region); + if (likely(!lc->flush_failed)) + log_set_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, region); } static int core_get_resync_work(struct dm_dirty_log *log, region_t *region)