On 12/24/2016 11:07 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:42:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Ugh. This patch is nasty.
It's the same SCSI has done for ages - except that is uses a separate
kmalloc for the sense buffer.
I think we should just fix blk_execute_rq() instead.
As you found out below it's not just blk_execute_rq, it's the whole
architecture of the BLOCK_PC code, which expects a caller provided
sense buffer. But with the way blk-mq allocates request structures
we can actually fix it, but I first need to extent the way it allows
drivers to allocate private data to the old request code. I've
actually already implemented that for SCSI long time ago, and have
started to life it to the block layer.
Would be cool to have a generic sense buffer.
I always found it slightly odd, pretending that 'struct request' is
protocol-agnostic and refusing to add a sense data pointer, but at the
same time having a field 'sense_len' (which gives the length of what
exactly?).
Christoph, do you have a pointer to your patchset?
Not that I'll be able to do any meaningful work until next year, but
having a look would be nice. Just to get a feeling where you want to
head to; I might be able to work on this start of January.
Cheers,
Hannes
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