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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<axboe@fb.com>, <sitsofe@yahoo.com>, <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	<hch@infradead.org>, <Kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 21:49:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1shwkfq9z.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160610025435.GA48899@shli-mbp.local> (Shaohua Li's message of "Thu, 9 Jun 2016 19:54:36 -0700")

>>>>> "Shaohua" == Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> writes:

Shaohua,

>> What does the extra io_err buy us? Just have this function return an
>> error. And then in blkdev_issue_discard if you get -EOPNOTSUPP you
>> special case it there.

Shaohua> The __blkdev_issue_discard returns -EOPNOTSUPP if disk doesn't
Shaohua> support discard.  in that case, blkdev_issue_discard doesn't
Shaohua> return 0. blkdev_issue_discard only returns 0 if IO error is
Shaohua> -EOPNOTSUPP.

Oh, I see. The sanity checks are now in __blkdev_issue_discard() so
there is no way to distinguish between -EOPNOTSUPP and the other
-EOPNOTSUPP. *sigh*

I am OK with your patch as a stable fix but this really needs to be
fixed up properly.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-11  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-06 22:33 [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout Shaohua Li
2016-06-07  4:50 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-06-07 14:58   ` Shaohua Li
2016-06-15 21:26     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-06-10  2:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-06-10  2:54   ` Shaohua Li
2016-06-11  1:49     ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2016-06-13  8:20       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-14 18:36         ` Mike Snitzer
2016-06-15  2:30           ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-06-15  2:40             ` Mike Snitzer
2016-06-15  2:14         ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-06-15 21:24           ` Sitsofe Wheeler

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