Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Possibly wrong BIO usage in ide_multwrite | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:13:30 +0100 |
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On Monday 05 of January 2004 17:49, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > calling end_request with a null sector count, ide_end_request will then > > > take hard_nr_sectors which will end the whole request even if only one > > > bio was finished, huh? Am I missing something here? > > > > No, it is used mainly to fail requests. > > > > This hack should be later removed with care > > (there is some strange comment about locking). > > IIRC, it's due to it not always being safe to inspect rq state outside > of ide_lock. So that makes 0 a magic value that just means 'end the > first chunk' for ide_end_request().
Why/when it is not safe to do?
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