linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Two fixups for the block IO merge

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Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:07:07 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] Two fixups for the block IO merge

Hi Linus,

An embarassing bug made the block IO merge a bit less enjoyable for some
people than it should have.

- The oops problem (with CFQ), or potential corruption (with noop) due
  to a bad insertion type for some requests.

- A warning spew on virt_io using blk_stop_queue() inside it's callback.

Please pull these two fixes, so hopefully we can put this behind us.
Thanks a lot to the people involved with fixing the first issue.

  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus

Jens Axboe (2):
      block: fix bug with inserting flush requests as sort/merge
      block: fix issue with calling blk_stop_queue() from the request_fn handler

 block/blk-core.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 59b5c00..e0a0623 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_start_queue);
  **/
 void blk_stop_queue(struct request_queue *q)
 {
-	cancel_delayed_work(&q->delay_work);
+	__cancel_delayed_work(&q->delay_work);
 	queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, q);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_stop_queue);
@@ -2702,7 +2702,10 @@ static void flush_plug_list(struct blk_plug *plug)
 		/*
 		 * rq is already accounted, so use raw insert
 		 */
-		__elv_add_request(q, rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE);
+		if (rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA))
+			__elv_add_request(q, rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_FLUSH);
+		else
+			__elv_add_request(q, rq, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE);
 	}
 
 	if (q) {

-- 
Jens Axboe

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