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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Fix a regression where MS_SNAP_STABLE (stable pages snapshotting) was ignored
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:06:37AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:06:02PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > The "force" parameter in __blk_queue_bounce was being ignored, which means that
> > stable page snapshots are not always happening (on ext3). This of course
> > leads to DIF disks reporting checksum errors, so fix this regression.
> >
> > The regression was introduced in commit 6bc454d1 (bounce: Refactor
> > __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec)
> >
> > Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
>
> I have no means of testing it but it looks right and thanks for checking
> DIF disks.
>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
>

That said the two checks are now redundant. They could just be deleted
and depend entirely on the following check within the loop

if (page_to_pfn(page) <= queue_bounce_pfn(q) && !force)
continue;

with an update to the comment explaining that the check is for pages
below the bounce pfn or for bios that require stable writes

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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