Re: [PATCH 1/6] block: ensure we don't truncate top bits of the request command flags

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On 03/22/2016 02:01 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 03/22/2016 12:59 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:55:15AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> Some of the flags that we want to use from the make_request_fn path
>>> are now larger than 32-bit, so change the functions involved to
>>> accept an u64 instead of an unsigned int.
>>
>> When did we start doing that?  We really should merge Mike's split
>> of the operation style flags into the cmd_type before making things
>> even worse in the flags area.
> 
> Just now, and I ran into it last week as well, for a test patch on cfq
> that passed in higher flags for get_request -> may_queue() as well. We
> can do Mike's split first, I think it's a good cleanup. As a standalone
> series, I needed it though.
> 

Hey, did you want any changes on that patchset? I was going to repost it
with the kbuild fix against linux-next, but I can make any changes you
wanted first.
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