Hi Tomasz, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on linus/master] [also build test WARNING on v4.15-rc4 next-20171220] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Tomasz-Majchrzak/raid5-ppl-PPL-support-for-disks-with-write-back-cache-enabled/20171220-181528 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) vim +635 drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c 619 620 static void ppl_do_flush(struct ppl_io_unit *io) 621 { 622 struct ppl_log *log = io->log; 623 struct ppl_conf *ppl_conf = log->ppl_conf; 624 struct r5conf *conf = ppl_conf->mddev->private; 625 int raid_disks = conf->raid_disks; 626 int flushed_disks = 0; 627 int i; 628 629 atomic_set(&io->pending_flushes, raid_disks); 630 631 for_each_set_bit(i, &log->disk_flush_bitmap, raid_disks) { 632 struct md_rdev *rdev; 633 634 rcu_read_lock(); > 635 rdev = rcu_dereference(conf->disks[i].rdev); 636 if (rdev && test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)) 637 rdev = NULL; 638 rcu_read_unlock(); 639 640 if (rdev) { 641 struct bio *bio; 642 char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; 643 644 bio = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, 0, ppl_conf->flush_bs); 645 bio_set_dev(bio, rdev->bdev); 646 bio->bi_private = io; 647 bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH; 648 bio->bi_end_io = ppl_flush_endio; 649 650 pr_debug("%s: dev: %s\n", __func__, 651 bio_devname(bio, b)); 652 653 submit_bio(bio); 654 flushed_disks++; 655 } 656 } 657 658 log->disk_flush_bitmap = 0; 659 660 for (i = flushed_disks ; i < raid_disks; i++) { 661 if (atomic_dec_and_test(&io->pending_flushes)) 662 ppl_io_unit_finished(io); 663 } 664 } 665 --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html