From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753981Ab1GRSyI (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:08 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:55056 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752468Ab1GRSyG (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:54:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4E1B3A1D.2050400@fusionio.com> References: <4E1B37B1.9030608@fusionio.com> <4E1B3A1D.2050400@fusionio.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:54:05 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH]: block: try-2 (modified): Initialize bi_rw in mpage so bio_add can make use of it. From: Muthu Kumar To: Jens Axboe Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens, Here is the diff stats. Its changing more files than I expected. Let me know what you think... (If this is OK I can also split and send the patches for review). FYI: muthu@sakthi linux-2.6-head]$ wc -l blk-bio-init-rw-before-add-page.patch 1610 blk-bio-init-rw-before-add-page.patch --------------------------- block/blk-core.c | 2 +- block/blk-flush.c | 2 +- block/blk-lib.c | 4 +- block/blk-map.c | 12 ++++----- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c | 3 +- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c | 3 +- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 3 +- drivers/block/floppy.c | 2 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +- drivers/block/osdblk.c | 2 +- drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | 15 +++++------ drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 2 +- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 5 +-- drivers/md/dm-io.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm.c | 10 +++----- drivers/md/md.c | 17 +++++++------ drivers/md/md.h | 2 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 7 +++++- drivers/md/raid10.c | 7 +++++- drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c | 21 ++++++---------- drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c | 3 +- fs/bio.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- fs/btrfs/compression.c | 12 +++++----- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 8 +++--- fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 2 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 21 +++++++++-------- fs/btrfs/scrub.c | 4 +- fs/buffer.c | 2 +- fs/direct-io.c | 12 +++++----- fs/exofs/ios.c | 6 +++- fs/ext4/page-io.c | 6 +++- fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 6 +++- fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c | 2 +- fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c | 12 ++++++--- fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c | 4 +- fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c | 10 ++++---- fs/mpage.c | 11 +++++---- fs/nfs/objlayout/objio_osd.c | 8 +++--- fs/nilfs2/segbuf.c | 9 ++++--- fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c | 9 ++++--- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 8 ++++-- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 2 +- include/linux/bio.h | 10 ++++---- kernel/power/block_io.c | 2 +- mm/bounce.c | 2 +- mm/page_io.c | 14 ++++++----- 48 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-) ----------------------------------- On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2011-07-11 19:52, Muthu Kumar wrote: >>> For this particular case, doing it when the bio is allocated makes more >>> sense. That will avoid a similar error in there in the future. >>> >> >> Sounds good. Thanks. How about for other cases that alloc a new bio >> and do bio_add_page() - like blkdev_issue_zeroout() and similar. >> Should we add there too? > > Good question, ideally the allocator should be passed in the rw argument > since we need it before even submitting it for the merge cases. We don't > have _that_ many callers of bio_alloc() or bio_kmalloc(), so probably > the best option is just to bite the bullet and change the prototypes to > take the 'rw' argument there. Oh, and the bioset variants, too. > bio_init() should be passed the 'rw' argument from the allcators, so we > catch any private use of that, too. > > -- > Jens Axboe > >