Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2012 11:50:27 -0700 | From | Kent Overstreet <> | Subject | Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 02/13] dm: kill dm_rq_bio_destructor |
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:57:29AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Please explain why this is done and how it's safe. Alasdair / dm > > folks, can you please ack this? > > I think it's relying on there being never more than one reference on those > bios so that that endio fn, called exactly once, always frees it and there > are no dm_puts elsewhere.
Is that a safe assumption? From my perusal of the code it certainly looks like it should be, but I don't know dm all that well.
Seems like it might be better to use bio set's front_pad to put it in the same allocation as the bio, but I don't really want to get into that myself.
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