From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Block pull request for- 4.11-rc1 To: Bart Van Assche , Linus Torvalds References: <1D08B61A9CF0974AA09887BE32D889DA0A74F3@ULS-OP-MBXIP03.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , Mike Snitzer From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <633d226d-cec3-a01f-a069-ffff307e9715@kernel.dk> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:15:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1D08B61A9CF0974AA09887BE32D889DA0A74F3@ULS-OP-MBXIP03.sdcorp.global.sandisk.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 List-ID: On 02/19/2017 06:09 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 02/19/2017 04:11 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: >> - Removal of the BLOCK_PC support in struct request, and refactoring of >> carrying SCSI payloads in the block layer. This cleans up the code >> nicely, and enables us to kill the SCSI specific parts of struct >> request, shrinking it down nicely. From Christoph mainly, with help >> from Hannes. > > Hello Jens, Christoph and Mike, > > Is anyone working on a fix for the regression introduced by the BLOCK_PC removal > changes (general protection fault) that I had reported three weeks ago? See also > https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg55494.html I don't think that's a regression in this series, it just triggers more easily with this series. The BLOCK_PC removal fixes aren't touching device life times at all. That said, we will look into this again, of course. Christoph, any idea? -- Jens Axboe