On Sat, Aug 18 2007, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > This fixes 'trailing data' bug in the sglist libata patch in Jens' > block git tree. > > Aug 18 16:03:03 tulip kernel: ata1.00: 36 bytes trailing data > Aug 18 16:03:03 tulip kernel: scsi scan: INQUIRY result too short (5), using > 36 > > > With the patch, sglist could be sent to -mm (I guess that Andrew hit > this bug). But I'm still not sure about the sglist libata patch > (especially about the padding path). It would be better to drop the > sglist libata patch with my use_sg_chaining option patch and send > sglist to -mm, I think. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118728307617958&w=2 > > I guess that it would be better to leave sglist libata conversion in > the maintainers' hands. > > --- > From 86d7a796417bde84fc3cbe6ac6ebaaa524266092 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:27:36 +0900 > Subject: [PATCH] libata sg chaining support fix > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > index f37eecc..52f75c3 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > @@ -4648,16 +4648,18 @@ static void __atapi_pio_bytes(struct ata_queued_cmd > *qc, unsigned int bytes) > { > int do_write = (qc->tf.flags & ATA_TFLAG_WRITE); > struct scatterlist *sg = qc->__sg; > + struct scatterlist *lsg = sg_last(qc->__sg, qc->n_elem); > struct ata_port *ap = qc->ap; > struct page *page; > unsigned char *buf; > unsigned int offset, count; > + int no_more_sg = 0; > > if (qc->curbytes + bytes >= qc->nbytes) > ap->hsm_task_state = HSM_ST_LAST; > > next_sg: > - if (unlikely(qc->cursg == sg_last(qc->__sg, qc->n_elem))) { > + if (unlikely(no_more_sg)) { > /* > * The end of qc->sg is reached and the device expects > * more data to transfer. In order not to overrun qc->sg > @@ -4719,6 +4721,9 @@ next_sg: > qc->cursg_ofs += count; > > if (qc->cursg_ofs == sg->length) { > + if (qc->cursg == lsg) > + no_more_sg = 1; > + > qc->cursg = sg_next(qc->cursg); > qc->cursg_ofs = 0; > }
Tomo, this looks promising! Andrew, I have updated #for-akpm with the sglist bits so it's enabled for the next -mm in the hope that this fixes the issue. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
