Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Badblock tracking for gendisks

["Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 11:43 -0700, Vishal Verma wrote:
> v2:
>   - In badblocks_free, make 'page' NULL (patch 1)
>   - Move the core badblocks code to a new .c file (patch 1) (Jens)
>   - Fix a sizeof usage in disk_alloc_badblocks (patch 2) (Dan)
>   - Since disk_alloc_badblocks can fail, check disk->bb for NULL in
> the
>     genhd wrappers (patch 2) (Jeff)
>   - Update the md conversion to also ise the badblocks init and free
>     functions (patch 3)
>   - Remove the BB_* macros from md.h as they are now in badblocks.h
> (patch 3)
> 
> Patch 1 copies badblock management code into a header of its own,
> making it generally available. It follows common libraries of code
> such as linked lists, where anyone may embed a core data structure
> in another place, and use the provided accessor functions to
> manipulate the data.
> 
> Patch 2 adds badblock tracking to gendisks (in preparation for use
> by NVDIMM devices). Right now, it is turned on unconditionally - I'd
> appreciate comments on if that is the right path.
> 
> Patch 3 converts md over to use the new badblocks 'library'. I have
> done some pretty simple testing on this - created a raid 1 device,
> made sure the sysfs entries show up, and can be used to add and view
> badblocks. A closer look by the md folks would be nice here.
> 
> 
> Vishal Verma (3):
>   badblocks: Add core badblock management code
>   block: Add badblock management for gendisks
>   md: convert to use the generic badblocks code
> 

Ping.

Jens, are you ok taking this through the block tree?
Any other comments from anyone else?

Thanks,
	-Vishal