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* [PATCH v5 0/3] Badblock tracking for gendisks
@ 2015-12-25  2:20 Vishal Verma
  2015-12-25  2:20 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] badblocks: Add core badblock management code Vishal Verma
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From: Vishal Verma @ 2015-12-25  2:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-nvdimm
  Cc: Vishal Verma, linux-block, linux-raid, linux-scsi, Jens Axboe,
	NeilBrown, Jeff Moyer, Dan Williams

v5:
  - Rebase to v4.4-rc6
  - Revert back to using kzalloc from __get_free_page based on the discussion at:
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2113292

v4:
  - Rebase to v4.4-rc4

v3:
  - Add kernel-doc style comments to all exported functions in badblocks.c (James)
  - Make return values from badblocks functions consistent with themselves
    and the kernel style. Change the polarity of badblocks_set, and update
    all callers accordingly (James)
  - In gendisk, don't unconditionally allocate badblocks, export the initializer.
    This also allows the initializer to be a non-void return type, so that the
    badblocks user can act upon failures better (James)


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).

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

 block/Makefile            |   2 +-
 block/badblocks.c         | 561 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block/genhd.c             |  76 +++++++
 drivers/md/md.c           | 516 +++---------------------------------------
 drivers/md/md.h           |  40 +---
 include/linux/badblocks.h |  53 +++++
 include/linux/genhd.h     |   7 +
 7 files changed, 726 insertions(+), 529 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 block/badblocks.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/badblocks.h

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2.5.0


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