linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] block: ensure we don't truncate top bits of the request command flags

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Message-ID: <20160322185900.GB10113@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:59:00 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, martin.petersen@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] block: ensure we don't truncate top bits of the
 request command flags

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:55:15AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Some of the flags that we want to use from the make_request_fn path
> are now larger than 32-bit, so change the functions involved to
> accept an u64 instead of an unsigned int.

When did we start doing that?  We really should merge Mike's split
of the operation style flags into the cmd_type before making things
even worse in the flags area.