> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, 29 June 2020 03.36
> To: Matias Bjorling <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>;
> Niklas Cassel <[email protected]>; Hans Holmberg
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: add BLKSETDESCZONE ioctl for Zoned Block
> Devices
>
> On 2020-06-28 16:01, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> > + /* This may take a while, so be nice to others */
> > + cond_resched();
> > +
> > + return submit_bio_wait(&bio);
>
> A cond_resched() call before a submit_bio_wait() call? I think it's the first
> time
> that I see this. Is that call really necessary? Isn't the
> wait_for_completion() call inside submit_bio_wait() sufficient?
>
One can't be too careful these days, heh. I'll fix it up. Thanks!
> > + /* no flags is currently supported */
> ^^
> are?
>
> > + /* allocate the size of the zone descriptor extension and fill
> > + * with the data in the user data buffer. If the data size is less
> > + * than the zone descriptor extension size, then the rest of the
> > + * zone description extension data buffer is zero-filled.
> > + */
> > + zsd_data = (void *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!zsd_data)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > + if (copy_from_user(zsd_data, argp + sizeof(struct blk_zone_set_desc),
> > + zsd.len)) {
> > + ret = -EFAULT;
> > + goto free;
> > + }
>
> Has it been considered to use kmalloc() instead of get_zeroed_page()?
>
> > diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> > index ccb895f911b1..53b7b05b0004 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> > @@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ enum req_opf {
> > REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH = 12,
> > /* write data at the current zone write pointer */
> > REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND = 13,
> > + /* associate zone desc extension data to a zone */
> > + REQ_OP_ZONE_SET_DESC = 14,
> >
> > /* SCSI passthrough using struct scsi_request */
> > REQ_OP_SCSI_IN = 32,
>
> Does REQ_OP_ZONE_SET_DESC count as a read or as a write operation? See
> also:
>
> static inline bool op_is_write(unsigned int op) {
> return (op & 1);
> }
>
> > +/**
> > + * struct blk_zone_set_desc - BLKSETDESCZONE ioctl requests
> > + * @sector: Starting sector of the zone to operate on.
> > + * @flags: Feature flags.
> > + * @len: size, in bytes, of the data to be associated to the zone.
> > + * @data: data to be associated.
> > + */
> > +struct blk_zone_set_desc {
> > + __u64 sector;
> > + __u32 flags;
> > + __u32 len;
> > + __u8 data[0];
> > +};
>
> Isn't the recommended style to use a flexible array ([] instead of [0])?
> See also
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200608213711.GA22271@embeddedor/.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
