scsi_send_eh_cmnd is the last user of non-sg commands currently. This patch switches it to a one-element SG list. Also updates the kerneldoc comment for scsi_send_eh_cmnd to reflect reality while we're at it. Test on my mptsas card, but this should get testing with as many drivers as possible. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c =================================================================== --- scsi-misc-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c 2006-10-30 17:00:23.000000000 +0100 +++ scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c 2006-11-04 17:30:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -453,9 +453,18 @@ } /** - * scsi_send_eh_cmnd - send a cmd to a device as part of error recovery. - * @scmd: SCSI Cmd to send. - * @timeout: Timeout for cmd. + * scsi_send_eh_cmnd - submit a scsi command as part of error recory + * @scmd: SCSI command structure to hijack + * @cmnd: CDB to send + * @cmnd_size: size if bytes of @cmnd + * @timeout: timeout for this request + * @copy_sense: request sense data if set to 1 + * + * This function is used to send a scsi command down to a target device + * as part of the error recovery process. If @copy_sense is 0 the command + * sent must be one that does not transfer any data. If @copy_sense is 1 + * the command must be REQUEST_SENSE and this functions copies out the + * sense buffer it got into @scmd->sense_buffer. * * Return value: * SUCCESS or FAILED or NEEDS_RETRY @@ -469,6 +478,7 @@ DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done); unsigned long timeleft; unsigned long flags; + struct scatterlist sgl; unsigned char old_cmnd[MAX_COMMAND_SIZE]; enum dma_data_direction old_data_direction; unsigned short old_use_sg; @@ -500,19 +510,24 @@ if (shost->hostt->unchecked_isa_dma) gfp_mask |= __GFP_DMA; - scmd->sc_data_direction = DMA_FROM_DEVICE; - scmd->request_bufflen = 252; - scmd->request_buffer = kzalloc(scmd->request_bufflen, gfp_mask); - if (!scmd->request_buffer) + sgl.page = alloc_page(gfp_mask); + if (!sgl.page) return FAILED; + sgl.offset = 0; + sgl.length = 252; + + scmd->sc_data_direction = DMA_FROM_DEVICE; + scmd->request_bufflen = sgl.length; + scmd->request_buffer = &sgl; + scmd->use_sg = 1; } else { scmd->request_buffer = NULL; scmd->request_bufflen = 0; scmd->sc_data_direction = DMA_NONE; + scmd->use_sg = 0; } scmd->underflow = 0; - scmd->use_sg = 0; scmd->cmd_len = COMMAND_SIZE(scmd->cmnd[0]); if (sdev->scsi_level <= SCSI_2) @@ -583,7 +598,7 @@ memcpy(scmd->sense_buffer, scmd->request_buffer, sizeof(scmd->sense_buffer)); } - kfree(scmd->request_buffer); + __free_page(sgl.page); } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html