Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] block: cope with WRITE ZEROES failing in blkdev_issue_zeroout()

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Christoph, Martin,
>
> blkdev_issue_zeroout() now checks for any error.  This required a minor
> refactor, so I dropped the stable tag, Jens can add it back if needed.
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - another code flow change in blkdev_issue_zeroout() suggested by
>   Christoph -- no functional changes
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - changed code flow in blkdev_issue_zeroout() according to Christoph's
>   suggestion
> - this required adding additional checks to blkdev_issue_zeroout() and
>   __blkdev_issue_zero_pages(), the latter is no longer void
>
> Previous version at
>
>   https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=150712940922089&w=2
>
> Thanks,
>
>                 Ilya
>
>
> Ilya Dryomov (2):
>   block: factor out __blkdev_issue_zero_pages()
>   block: cope with WRITE ZEROES failing in blkdev_issue_zeroout()
>
>  block/blk-lib.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 72 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

Jens, can you pick these up?  Technically this is a user-visible
regression (Fixes tag in 2/2), but we are late in the cycle so I'm not
sure what is the right thing to do here.

Thanks,

                Ilya



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