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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Takeo Tung <kernel@takeo.idv.tw>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] struct io panic on raid1 - Re: block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request will kernel panic
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:48:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100708094851.6dc6199d@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100707231732.GA30007@lst.de>

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:17:32 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:05:39AM +0800, Takeo Tung wrote:
> > Dear Christoph,
> > 
> > I was check the patch again. I found the panic status haapen on Soft RAID 
> > 1. I review it. found some define using bool, so some like ( x & REQ_SYNC) 
> > only 0 or 1.
> > so if bi_rw = rw | sync will bi_rw = rw | 0 or rw | 1. not rw | ( 1 << 
> > __REQ_SYNC).
> > 
> > So I write a patch is fix it. seems normal now. could you review the patch 
> > or any comment?
> 
> The patch looks correct to me, although your mailer mangled the
> whitespace badly.  If Neil wants to keep the flag as bool we could
> also add a !! around the bit flag checks.

I think it is best to make them "unsigned long" holding the actual but.
They were only made 'bool' because that is was bio_rw_flagged() returned.
Converting to a bool then back to a bit-flag is unnecessary.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-07 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11 15:13 linux-next-20100608 will /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: Permission denied Takeo Tung
2010-06-11 20:07 ` Michal Marek
2010-06-12  8:44   ` Takeo Tung
2010-06-12  9:49     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-12 19:35       ` Takeo Tung
2010-06-28 10:52       ` block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request will kernel panic Takeo Tung
2010-07-07 23:05         ` [PATCH] struct io panic on raid1 - " Takeo Tung
2010-07-07 23:17           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 23:48             ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-07-08  0:43               ` Takeo Tung
2010-07-08  1:15                 ` Neil Brown
2010-07-08  1:42                   ` Takeo Tung

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