Re: [PATCH] block: fix splitting segments

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:58:01AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:18:04AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 1/9/20 12:16 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:03:41AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > >> It has been addressed in:
> > >>
> > >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git/commit/?h=block-5.5&id=ecd255974caa45901d0b8fab03626e0a18fbc81a
> > > 
> > > That is probably correct, but still highly suboptimal for most 32-bit
> > > architectures where physical addresses are 32 bits wide.  To fix that
> > > the proper phys_addr_t type should be used.
> > 
> > I'll swap it for phys_addr_t - we used to use dma_address_t or something
> > like that, but I missed this type.
> 
> Guenter mentioned that 'page_to_phys(start_page) as well as offset are
> sometimes 0'[1].
> 
> If that(zero page physical address) can happen when phys_addr_t is 32bit,
> I guess phys_addr_t may not work too.
> 
> Guener, could you test the patch in link[2] again?
> 
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20200108023822.GB28075@ming.t460p/T/#m5862216b960454fc41a85204defbb887983bfd75
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git/commit/?h=block-5.5&id=b6a89c4a9590663f80486662fe9a9c1f4cee31f4

Loop Guener in.


Thanks,
Ming




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