Now that the block submission path correctly bounces, we can simply use the command sense_buffer to send to retrieve sense information and junk the unnecessary page allocation. James Index: scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c =================================================================== --- scsi-misc-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c 2007-05-15 11:08:31.000000000 -0500 +++ scsi-misc-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c 2007-05-22 14:38:49.000000000 -0500 @@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/timer.h> #include <linux/string.h> -#include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/kthread.h> #include <linux/interrupt.h> #include <linux/blkdev.h> #include <linux/delay.h> +#include <linux/scatterlist.h> #include <scsi/scsi.h> #include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h> @@ -640,16 +640,8 @@ static int scsi_send_eh_cmnd(struct scsi memcpy(scmd->cmnd, cmnd, cmnd_size); if (copy_sense) { - gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_ATOMIC; - - if (shost->hostt->unchecked_isa_dma) - gfp_mask |= __GFP_DMA; - - sgl.page = alloc_page(gfp_mask); - if (!sgl.page) - return FAILED; - sgl.offset = 0; - sgl.length = 252; + sg_init_one(&sgl, scmd->sense_buffer, + sizeof(scmd->sense_buffer)); scmd->sc_data_direction = DMA_FROM_DEVICE; scmd->request_bufflen = sgl.length; @@ -720,18 +712,6 @@ static int scsi_send_eh_cmnd(struct scsi /* - * Last chance to have valid sense data. - */ - if (copy_sense) { - if (!SCSI_SENSE_VALID(scmd)) { - memcpy(scmd->sense_buffer, page_address(sgl.page), - sizeof(scmd->sense_buffer)); - } - __free_page(sgl.page); - } - - - /* * Restore original data */ scmd->request_buffer = old_buffer; - 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