linux-kernel - Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

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Message-ID: <20071018171054.GG10674@kernel.dk>
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:10:54 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp,
	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, tomof@....org
Subject: Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > -		unsigned long addr = page_to_phys(s->page) + s->offset; 
> > > +		unsigned long addr = page_to_phys(sg_page(s)) + s->offset; 
> > 
> > Umm. May I suggest (I haven't read the whole thread yet, maybe somebody 
> > else already did) that
> > 
> > 	static inline unsigned long sg_phys(struct scatterlist *sg)
> > 	{
> > 		return 	page_to_phys(sg_page(sg)) + sg->offset;
> > 	}
> > 
> > would be a good thing to have?
> 
> Sure thing, it's used quite a lot.

Actually, only 11 occurrences in the patch. But still a nice little
cleanup.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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