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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, neilb@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/26] block: Add bio_advance()
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:25:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120920232506.GI7264@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120920231308.GB5519@google.com>

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:13:08PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> I just cut and pasted that from blk_update_request(), which is what the
> next patch refactors...

Yeah, well, that was written when we didn't have WARNs.

> But yes it would be a bug. It gets converted to a BUG_ON() in a later
> patch (not in this series), as this gets further abstracted into a
> wrapper around bvec_advance_iter() which doesn't know about struct bio
> (as bio integrity gets its own iterator).

WARN() generally preferable unless there's no way at all to continue.
Storage layer could be a bit different if immediate danger for data
corruption exists but the general consensus seems that we're too
trigger happy with BUG_ON()s.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-11  0:22 [PATCH v2 00/26] Prep work for immutable bio vecs Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 01/26] block: Convert integrity to bvec_alloc_bs(), and a bugfix Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11 20:36   ` [dm-devel] " Vivek Goyal
2012-09-11 20:48     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11 22:07     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-12 19:39       ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-09-17 21:08         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 21:53   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 02/26] block: Add bio_advance() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 21:58   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 23:13     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:25       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-09-20 23:38         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 03/26] block: Refactor blk_update_request() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:20   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 23:36     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:41       ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 23:50         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 04/26] md: Convert md_trim_bio() to use bio_advance() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:27   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 05/26] block: Add bio_end() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-17  9:17   ` Steven Whitehouse
2012-09-20 23:32   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 23:44     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 06/26] block: Use bio_sectors() more consistently Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:36   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 23:47     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 07/26] block: Don't use bi_idx in bio_split() or require it to be 0 Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:45   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:00     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 08/26] block: Remove bi_idx references Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:49   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:04     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 09/26] block: Remove some unnecessary bi_vcnt usage Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:51   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 10/26] block: Add submit_bio_wait(), remove from md Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:56   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:06     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 11/26] raid10: Use bio_reset() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-20 23:59   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 12/26] raid1: use bio_reset() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  4:59   ` NeilBrown
2012-09-11 18:28     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11 21:17       ` NeilBrown
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 13/26] raid5: " Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  5:03   ` NeilBrown
2012-09-11 19:26     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 14/26] raid1: Refactor narrow_write_error() to not use bi_idx Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 15/26] block: Add bio_copy_data() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:06   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:09     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:15       ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:09     ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:13       ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 16/26] pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 17/26] pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 18/26] raid1: use bio_copy_data() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 19/26] bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:25   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:29     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:27   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:34     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 20/26] block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:35   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 21/26] block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:38   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  0:50     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 22/26] block: Add bio_alloc_pages() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:47   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  4:50     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 23/26] raid1: use bio_alloc_pages() Kent Overstreet
2012-09-21  0:48   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-21  4:51     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 24/26] block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 25/26] bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf Kent Overstreet
2012-09-12 19:41   ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-09-17 21:09     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  0:22 ` [PATCH v2 26/26] block: Add BIO_SUBMITTED flag, kill BIO_CLONED Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11  5:22 ` [PATCH v2 00/26] Prep work for immutable bio vecs NeilBrown
2012-09-20 23:22 ` Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-10-15 20:08 [PATCH v4 00/24] " Kent Overstreet
2012-10-15 20:09 ` [PATCH v2 02/26] block: Add bio_advance() Kent Overstreet

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