On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 20:48 +0300, Razvan Deaconescu wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to implement a software RAID driver. However, I am having > problems sending a simple bio request to the physical device. > > I am using open_bdev_excl and submit_bio to accomplish this[1]. However, > if I use submit_bio, an oops occurs. Does anyone have a clue of what the > problem could be? > <snip> > [1] http://rafb.net/p/Re5klW51.html I've managed to solve my problems. The bio_add_page function should only be called with a size argument that's a multiple of the block device sector size. Otherwise the system crashes. As soon as I replaced the 300 argument with 512 or 1024 or KERNEL_SECTOR_SIZE, everything worked like a charm. Razvan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
