Re: [PATCH V4 1/5] nvme: do atomically bit operations on nvme_request.flags

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Mar 08 2018 - 02:57:43 EST


On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 02:19:27PM +0800, Jianchao Wang wrote:
> Do atomically bit operations on nvme_request.flags instead of
> regular read/write, then we could add other flags and set/clear
> them safely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good, assuming an actual need for this shows up in the next
patches :)

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
> index e80fd74..02097e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
> @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ struct nvme_request {
> struct nvme_command *cmd;
> union nvme_result result;
> u8 retries;
> - u8 flags;
> u16 status;
> + unsigned long flags;

Please align the field name like the others, though.