From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] scsi: don't memset the entire scsi_cmnd in scsi_init_command
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 07:52:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220224065249.GA20737@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c22fa8f1-790d-faf8-a014-f00e0e357075@acm.org>
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:16:24PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2/23/22 04:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> In general most of the zeroing here should go away entirely. Right
>> now that code is a bit convolute due to the fake EH scsi command that
>> also uses scsi_init_command. Once that is sorted out (I've just pinged
>> Hannes for his series) scsi_init_command can be folded into
>> scsi_prepare_cmd and a lot more of this can be cleaned up.
>
> Several SCSI LLDs rely on the SCSI core zeroing the driver-private data.
> I'd be more than happy if the code for zeroing of driver-private data would
> be pushed into the LLD drivers. This may require the introduction of a new
> per-command flag since that zeroing should only happen if scsi_queue_rq()
> decided to call scsi_prepare_cmd().
If the driver provides a init_cmd_priv method it is not zeroed. So if
a driver does not want it zeroed, it can always provide this callback,
including an empty one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-24 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-22 14:04 remove struct scsi_request Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/8] bsg: don't include scsi_request.h in bsg-lib.h Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 18:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 2/8] target/pscsi: remove struct pscsi_plugin_task Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 3/8] scsi: don't memset the entire scsi_cmnd in scsi_init_command Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 12:21 ` John Garry
2022-02-23 12:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 12:56 ` John Garry
2022-02-23 12:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 20:16 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-24 6:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-02-23 23:03 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-24 8:28 ` John Garry
2022-02-24 16:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-24 16:38 ` John Garry
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 4/8] scsi: remove the cmd field from struct scsi_request Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 3:31 ` Martin K. Petersen
2022-02-23 23:36 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: remove the sense and sense_len fields " Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:39 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-24 6:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 6/8] scsi: move the resid_len field from struct scsi_request to struct scsi_cmnd Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:41 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] scsi: move the result " Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:43 ` Bart Van Assche
2022-02-22 14:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] scsi: remove struct scsi_request Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-23 23:48 ` Bart Van Assche
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