Re: Issues about the merge_bvec_fn callback in 3.10 series

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Hi Neil

Thanks so much for your suggestion.

On 2019/8/23 9:04, NeilBrown wrote:

>> I have checked   
>> v3.10.108
>> v3.18.140
>> v4.1.49
>> but there seems not fix for it.
>>
>> And maybe it would be fixed until 
>> 8ae126660fddbeebb9251a174e6fa45b6ad8f932
>> block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
>>
>> Would anyone please give some suggestion on this ?
> 
> One option would be to make sure that ->bi_rw is set before
> bio_add_page is called.
> There are about 80 calls, so that isn't trivial, but you might not care
> about several of them.
> 
> You could backport the 'kill merge_bvec_fn' patch if you like, but I
> wouldn't.  The change of introducing a bug is much higher.
> 

I have killed the raid5_mergeable_bvec and backport the patches that
could make the chunk_aligned_read be able to split bio by its own.
Then I just need to modify the raid5 code and needn't to touch other part
of the system, especially the block core.

It seems work well till now.

Thanks again
Jianchao



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