Re: [PATCH 3/4] libata: implement ATAPI drain buffer

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Misc ATAPI commands may try to transfer more bytes than requested.
> For PIO which is performed by libata HSM, this is worked around by
> draining extra bytes from __atapi_pio_bytes().
> 
> This patch implements drain buffer to perform draining for DMA and
> PIO-over-DMA cases.  One page is allocated w/ GFP_DMA32 during libata
> core layer initialization.  On host registration, this drain page is
> DMA mapped and ATAPI_MAX_DRAIN_PAGES sg entries are reserved.
> 
> ata_sg_setup_extra() uses these extra sg entries to map the drain page
> ATAPI_MAX_DRAIN_PAGES times, extending sg list by ATAPI_MAX_DRAIN
> bytes.  This allows both DMA and PIO-over-DMA misc ATAPI commands to
> overflow by ATAPI_MAX_DRAIN bytes just like PIO commands.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/ata/libata-core.c |  116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c |   14 ++++--
>  include/linux/libata.h    |    4 +-
>  3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)


(updating status on an old patch)

dropped, due to your current work