On Mon, 11 May 2009 09:18:20 -0500
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 14:49 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 May 2009 08:48:53 +0900
> > Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, Boaz.
> > >
> > > Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Tejun, I've carefully reviewed these files which I know more
> > > > about. The drivers/block files I've skipped, since I'm not familiar
> > > > with this code.
> > > >
> > > > Except a small fallout, it looks very good. See some comments plus
> > > > Ack/review below
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for reviewing it closely. It's really nice to have
> > > careful extra pair of eyes on the changes. :-)
> > >
> > > >> --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c
> > > >> +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c
> > > >> @@ -1357,8 +1357,7 @@ static int mptsas_smp_handler(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct sas_rphy *rphy,
> > > >> smprep = (SmpPassthroughReply_t *)ioc->sas_mgmt.reply;
> > > >> memcpy(req->sense, smprep, sizeof(*smprep));
> > > >> req->sense_len = sizeof(*smprep);
> > > >> - req->data_len = 0;
> > > >> - rsp->data_len -= smprep->ResponseDataLength;
> > > >> + rsp->resid_len = rsp->data_len - smprep->ResponseDataLength;
> > > >> } else {
> > > >> printk(MYIOC_s_ERR_FMT "%s: smp passthru reply failed to be returned\n",
> > > >> ioc->name, __func__);
> > > >
> > > > I think original code was assuming full residual count on the else side
> > > > (not MPT_IOCTL_STATUS_RF_VALID). So maybe add:
> > > >
> > > > + rsp->resid_len = rsp->data_len;
> > >
> > > Does resid_len make any sense w/ failed requests? I think we would be
> > > better off with declaring residual count to be undefined on request
> > > failure. Is there any place which depends on it?
> >
> > IIRC, I wrote the code. I think that this doesn't matter but it's
> > better not to change the behavior unless Eric ack on this change
> > (maybe LSI has some management binary that assume this behavior though
> > it's unlikely).
>
> Actually, yes it does, for many possible reasons.
>
> The first being if the device is too stupid to report an actual sector
> location the next best way of determining where the error occurred is
> from the residual. We don't make use of this in kernel (perhaps we
> should?) but some of the user space programs for CD/DVD burning do.
This function is for SAS management protocol. Are there many possible
reasons?
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