From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:16:29 +0200 > On Wed, Oct 17 2007, David Miller wrote: > > From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:45:28 +0200 > > > > > Righto, it's invalid to call sg_next() on the last entry! > > > > Unfortunately, that's what the sparc64 code wanted to do, this > > transformation in the sparc64 sg chaining patch is not equilavent: > > > > - struct scatterlist *sg_end = sg + nelems; > > + struct scatterlist *sg_end = sg_last(sg, nelems); > > ... > > - while (sg < sg_end && > > + while (sg != sg_end && > > Auch indeed. That'd probably be better as a > > do { > ... > } while (sg != sg_end); Ok, next bug, introduced by this change: commit f565913ef8a8d0cfa46a1faaf8340cc357a46f3a Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Sep 21 10:44:19 2007 +0200 block: convert to using sg helpers Convert the main rq mapper (blk_rq_map_sg()) to the sg helper setup. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Specifically this part: new_segment: - memset(&sg[nsegs],0,sizeof(struct scatterlist)); - sg[nsegs].page = bvec->bv_page; - sg[nsegs].length = nbytes; - sg[nsegs].offset = bvec->bv_offset; + sg = next_sg; + next_sg = sg_next(sg); + sg->page = bvec->bv_page; + sg->length = nbytes; + sg->offset = bvec->bv_offset; You can't remove that memset(), it's there for a reason. The IOMMU layers depended upon the code zero'ing out the whole scatterlist struct, there might be more to it than page, length and offset :-) In sparc64's case, this zero'd the dma_address and dma_length members and the mapping algorithms use that to their advantage. - 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