Re: [PATCH] struct io panic on raid1 - Re: block: unify flags forstruct bio and struct request will kernel panic

From: Neil Brown
Date: Wed Jul 07 2010 - 19:49:14 EST


On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:17:32 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> 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
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