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| author | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2008-02-11 00:32:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2008-02-11 00:32:14 +0100 |
| commit | 395d8ef5bebe547a80737692f9789d2e36da16f2 (patch) | |
| tree | dc0ef3062f1377137ce1f60fa14f7e7ea20ee372 /include | |
| parent | 8e882ba111bb52fbb42c34a265afb97ddd4fcea1 (diff) | |
ide-disk: fix flush requests (take 2)
commit 813a0eb233ee67d7166241a8b389b6a76f2247f9
Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jan 25 22:17:10 2008 +0100
ide: switch idedisk_prepare_flush() to use REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE requests
...
broke flush requests.
Allocating IDE command structure on the stack for flush requests is not
a very brilliant idea:
- idedisk_prepare_flush() only prepares the request and it doesn't wait
for it to be completed
- there are can be multiple flush requests queued in the queue
Fix the problem (per hints from James Bottomley) by:
- dynamically allocating ide_task_t instance using kmalloc(..., GFP_ATOMIC)
- adding new taskfile flag (IDE_TFLAG_DYN)
- calling kfree() in ide_end_drive_command() if IDE_TFLAG_DYN is set
(while at it rename 'args' to 'task' and fix whitespace damage)
[ This will be fixed properly before 2.6.25 but this bug is rather
critical and the proper solution requires some more work + testing. ]
Thanks to Sebastian Siewior and Christoph Hellwig for reporting the
problem and testing patches (extra thanks to Sebastian for bisecting
it to the guilty commmit).
Tested-by: Sebastian Siewior <ide-bug@ml.breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ide.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h index 40a01c3592df..23fad89292df 100644 --- a/include/linux/ide.h +++ b/include/linux/ide.h @@ -906,6 +906,8 @@ enum { IDE_TFLAG_IN_DEVICE, /* force 16-bit I/O operations */ IDE_TFLAG_IO_16BIT = (1 << 30), + /* ide_task_t was allocated using kmalloc() */ + IDE_TFLAG_DYN = (1 << 31), }; struct ide_taskfile { |