From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
brking@us.ibm.com, dror@xiv.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: properly count the number of pages in scsi_req_map_sg()
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:52:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060323145203.GA13637@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060321161912.GA32051@localdomain>
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:19:12PM +0200, Dan Aloni wrote:
> These scatterlists can be generated using the sg driver. Though I am
> actually running a customized version of the sg driver, it seems the
> conversion from a userspace array of sg_iovec_t to scatterlist stays
> the same and also applies to the original driver (see
> st_map_user_pages()).
What kernel version did you reproduce this with? Since 2.6.16 sg should
obey all request size/alingment limitations. If not that's a bug in
scsi_execute_async and it's helpers and should be fixed there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-23 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-21 8:38 [PATCH] scsi: properly count the number of pages in scsi_req_map_sg() Dan Aloni
2006-03-21 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-21 16:19 ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-21 18:05 ` Bryan Holty
2006-03-21 19:17 ` Mike Christie
2006-03-21 20:48 ` Bryan Holty
2006-03-22 12:35 ` Bryan Holty
2006-05-26 6:13 ` Mike Christie
2006-05-26 13:23 ` Bryan Holty
2006-03-23 14:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-03-23 16:51 ` Bryan Holty
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