Re: [PATCH 16/22] xen-blkfront: Make use of the new sg_map helper function

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Tue Apr 18 2017 - 10:30:11 EST


On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 02:13:59PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Logan Gunthorpe
> > Sent: 13 April 2017 23:05
> > Straightforward conversion to the new helper, except due to
> > the lack of error path, we have to warn if unmapable memory
> > is ever present in the sgl.

Interesting that you didn't CC any of the maintainers. Could you
do that in the future please?

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > index 5067a0a..7dcf41d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> > @@ -807,8 +807,19 @@ static int blkif_queue_rw_req(struct request *req, struct blkfront_ring_info *ri
> > BUG_ON(sg->offset + sg->length > PAGE_SIZE);
> >
> > if (setup.need_copy) {
> > - setup.bvec_off = sg->offset;
> > - setup.bvec_data = kmap_atomic(sg_page(sg));
> > + setup.bvec_off = 0;
> > + setup.bvec_data = sg_map(sg, SG_KMAP_ATOMIC);
> > + if (IS_ERR(setup.bvec_data)) {
> > + /*
> > + * This should really never happen unless
> > + * the code is changed to use memory that is
> > + * not mappable in the sg. Seeing there is a
> > + * questionable error path out of here,
> > + * we WARN.
> > + */
> > + WARN(1, "Non-mappable memory used in sg!");
> > + return 1;
> > + }
> ...
>
> Perhaps add a flag to mark failure as 'unexpected' and trace (and panic?)
> inside sg_map().
>
> David
>
>
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