From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030237AbbKSUHF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:07:05 -0500 Received: from mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com ([67.231.145.42]:55833 "EHLO mx0a-00082601.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932082AbbKSUHC (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:07:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] null_blk patches for 4.4-rc2 To: =?UTF-8?Q?Matias_Bj=c3=b8rling?= , , References: <1447933810-10267-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <564E2BE3.9010906@fb.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:06:59 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1447933810-10267-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.54.13] X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe X-FB-Internal: Safe X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2015-11-19_13:,, signatures=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/19/2015 04:50 AM, Matias Bjørling wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Please take a look at these three patches for 4.4-rc2. > > The first patch uses a slab allocator for ppa list to only allocate the > necessary memory. As the linear addressing mode was removed, the second > patch changes the driver to use the ppa format adressing mode and at > last, the third patch fixes two bugs. One when freeing gendisk on unload > and another to pass a null pointer to lightnvm unregister function. > > Feel free to fold them into the original null_blk patch. I applied them separately for 4.4. -- Jens Axboe