Re: [PATCH] scsi: virtio-scsi: Fix address translation failure of HighMem pages used by sg list

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 27/07/2012 05:12, Wang Sen ha scritto:
>> > No this code is correct, though you will need to make sure to properly
>> > terminate the destination sg_list.
> Yes, the terminate marker in the destination list is set when initialization.
> sg_set_page would not break this marker because it saved both the two
> maker bits at sg_asign_page.
> 
> Also, the allocation of destination sg list considered the total number of
> the source sg_list. So, sg_set_page can work correctly.
> 
> The value assignment method also can also work correctly, because the
> termination marker in source sg_list has been set in blk_rq_map_sg(), as
> the last entry of source sg_list is just copied to the the last entry
> in destination
> list.
> 
> Uh, Paolo, Boaz, have  you reached agreement on which method to use?

Let's use the value assignment, and document it in the commit message as
follows:

Value assignment creates a well-formed scatterlist, because the
termination marker in source sg_list has been set in blk_rq_map_sg().
The last entry of the source sg_list is just copied to the the last
entry in destination list.  Note that, for now, virtio_ring does not
care about the form of the scatterlist and simply processes the first
out_num + in_num consecutive elements of the sg[] array.

Paolo