[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH v2] logical pool fixes: only list leaf devices, and read file instead of run "cat"

Aline Manera alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Dec 24 10:41:58 UTC 2013


On 12/23/2013 12:58 PM, Zhou Zheng Sheng wrote:
> on 2013/12/23 19:25, Aline Manera wrote:
>> On 12/20/2013 05:36 AM, Zhou Zheng Sheng wrote:
>>> Some devices are parent of other devices. We should just list the leaf
>>> devices but not parent devices. For example, if a disk contains
>>> partitions, we should only list the partitions. If a disk is held by
>>> multipath device, we should not list the disk.
>>>
>>> Currently we strip the last charactter from "vda1" to get "vda" and
>>> ignore the parent "vda" device. This may fails on disk contains lots of
>>> logical partitions, for example "vda10"'s parent is not "vda1". Another
>>> problem is this method can not find the parent-child relation ship
>>> between a multipath device and its slaves.
>>>
>>> The most accurate information is on sysfs, and lsblk lists all children
>>> device of the requested device based on sysfs. So when "lsblk -P
>>> devices" prints only one line, it's the device itself, when it prints
>>> more lines, they are the children devices. This patch use this method to
>>> detect if a device a leaf one.
>>>
>>> This patch also avoids start new "cat" process to read uevent file, it
>>> opens the uevent file and read it directly.
>>>
>>> v2:
>>>     Assign string literal to constants thus avoid breaking the line.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhou Zheng Sheng <zhshzhou at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>    src/kimchi/disks.py | 48
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>>>    1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/src/kimchi/disks.py b/src/kimchi/disks.py
>>> index 991bb4a..7bba8b6 100644
>>> --- a/src/kimchi/disks.py
>>> +++ b/src/kimchi/disks.py
>>> @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ from kimchi.utils import kimchi_log
>>>
>>>    def _get_partition_path(name):
>>>        """ Returns device path given a partition name """
>>> -    dev_path = None
>>>        maj_min = None
>>>
>>>        keys = ["NAME", "MAJ:MIN"]
>>> @@ -39,15 +38,15 @@ def _get_partition_path(name):
>>>            if dev['name'] == name:
>>>                maj_min = dev['maj:min']
>>>                break
>>> +    else:
>>> +        msg = "Failed to find major and minor number for %s" % name
>>> +        raise OperationFailed(msg)
>>>
>>> -    uevent_cmd = "cat /sys/dev/block/%s/uevent" % maj_min
>>> -    uevent = subprocess.Popen(uevent_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
>>> -                              stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
>>> -    out, err = uevent.communicate()
>>> -    if uevent.returncode != 0:
>>> -        raise OperationFailed("Error getting partition path for %s",
>>> name)
>>> +    uevent = "/sys/dev/block/%s/uevent" % maj_min
>>> +    with open(uevent) as ueventf:
>>> +        content = ueventf.read()
>>>
>>> -    data = dict(re.findall(r'(\S+)=(".*?"|\S+)', out.replace("\n", "
>>> ")))
>>> +    data = dict(re.findall(r'(\S+)=(".*?"|\S+)',
>>> content.replace("\n", " ")))
>>>
>>>        return "/dev/%s" % data["DEVNAME"]
>>>
>>> @@ -63,6 +62,22 @@ def _get_lsblk_devs(keys, devs=[]):
>>>        return _parse_lsblk_output(out, keys)
>>>
>>>
>>> +def _is_dev_leaf(name):
>>> +    try:
>>> +        # By default, lsblk prints a device information followed by
>>> children
>>> +        # device information
>>> +        childrenCount = len(
>>> +            _get_lsblk_devs(["NAME"], [_get_partition_path(name)])) - 1
>>> +    except OperationFailed as e:
>>> +        # lsblk is known to fail on multipath devices
>>> +        # Assume these devices contain children
>>> +        kimchi_log.error(
>>> +            "Error getting device info for %s: %s", name, e)
>>> +        return False
>>> +    else:
>>> +        return childrenCount == 0
>>> +
>> else ?
>>
> Thanks Aline. "try" block can have an "else" block. The "else" block is
> executed if the "try" block does not raise an exception.
>
> To get more information, you can see the following and search "else" in
> page.
> http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/errors.html
>
> By the way, a "for" block can also followed by an "else" block, for example.
>
> for aKey in aDict:
>    if blah(aKey):
>      result = aDict[aKey]
>      break
> else:
>    result = aDefaultValue
>
> print result
>
> The "else" block is executed when the "for" loop ends normally. If it
> breaks the "for" loop, "else" block is skipped.
>
> I like these Pythonic constructs very much. They make the code more
> readable.

Yes, but the 'else' statement isn't needed as what is in this block is 
the normal flow.

>>> +
>>>    def _parse_lsblk_output(output, keys):
>>>        # output is on format key="value",
>>>        # where key can be NAME, TYPE, FSTYPE, SIZE, MOUNTPOINT, etc
>>> @@ -82,7 +97,6 @@ def _parse_lsblk_output(output, keys):
>>>
>>>    def get_partitions_names():
>>>        names = []
>>> -    ignore_names = []
>>>        keys = ["NAME", "TYPE", "FSTYPE", "MOUNTPOINT"]
>>>        # output is on format key="value",
>>>        # where key can be NAME, TYPE, FSTYPE, MOUNTPOINT
>>> @@ -90,20 +104,18 @@ def get_partitions_names():
>>>            # split()[0] to avoid the second part of the name, after the
>>>            # whiteline
>>>            name = dev['name'].split()[0]
>>> -        # Only list unmounted and unformated partition or disk.
>>> +        # Only list unmounted and unformated and leaf and (partition
>>> or disk)
>>> +        # leaf means a partition, a disk has no partition, or a disk
>>> not held
>>> +        # by any multipath device.
>>>            if not all([dev['type'] in ['part', 'disk'],
>>>                        dev['fstype'] == "",
>>> -                    dev['mountpoint'] == ""]):
>>> -
>>> -            # the whole disk must be ignored in it has at least one
>>> -            # mounted/formatted partition
>>> -            if dev['type'] == 'part':
>>> -                ignore_names.append(name[:-1])
>>> +                    dev['mountpoint'] == "",
>>> +                    _is_dev_leaf(name)]):
>>>                continue
>>>
>>>            names.append(name)
>>>
>>> -    return list(set(names) - set(ignore_names))
>>> +    return names
>>>
>>>
>>>    def get_partition_details(name):
>>> @@ -114,7 +126,7 @@ def get_partition_details(name):
>>>            dev = _get_lsblk_devs(keys, [dev_path])[0]
>>>        except OperationFailed as e:
>>>            kimchi_log.error(
>>> -            "Error getting partition info for %s: %s", (name, e))
>>> +            "Error getting partition info for %s: %s", name, e)
>>>            return {}
>>>
>>>        if dev['mountpoint']:
>




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