linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/7] blk_end_request: remove/unexport end_that_request

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:13:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@...jp.nec.com>
To:	bhalevy@...asas.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	mike.miller@...com, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
	bharrosh@...asas.com, dm-devel@...hat.com, j-nomura@...jp.nec.com,
	k-ueda@...jp.nec.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] blk_end_request: remove/unexport end_that_request_*

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:25:14 -0400, "Halevy, Benny" <bhalevy@...asas.com> wrote:
> We suspect we'll still need the extern entry points for handling the bidi 
> request in the scsi_io_completion() path as we only want to call
> end_that_request_chunk on req->next_rq and never
> end_that_request_last.
>  
> (see 
> http://www.bhalevy.com/open-osd/download/linux-2.6.23-rc2_and_iscsi-iscsi-2007_08_09/0005-SCSI-bidi-support.patch)

If this patch-set is merged, there may be other way to do that.

For tricky drivers, special interface, blk_end_request_callback(),
is added in the patch 5/7.
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118860027714753&w=2)
Currently, only user of the interface is ide-cd (cdrom_newpc_intr()).
It needs to call only end_that_request_first() too.

With the patch 7/7, you can set your own handler in rq->end_io()
to complete the request by your own way.

Thanks,
Kiyoshi Ueda
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/