Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 9:55 am

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:

Umm. May I suggest (I haven't read the whole thread yet, maybe somebody 
else already did) that

	static inline unsigned long sg_phys(struct scatterlist *sg)
	{
		return 	page_to_phys(sg_page(sg)) + sg->offset;
	}

would be a good thing to have?

Very few drivers should care so much about the *page* itself (or the 
offset). That's something that the generic allocation code etc cares 
about, but the driver is almost bound to care mostly about the actual DMA 
address, so adding that helper function that abstracts the sg access would 
be helpful in hiding some of the cruft?

		Linus
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[bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 8:46 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 9:50 am)
[bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 10:45 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 10:52 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 10:53 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 10:55 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 10:56 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 10:58 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:08 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 11:13 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:13 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:14 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:18 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:22 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 11:37 am)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 11:58 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 12:04 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 12:08 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 12:09 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 12:14 pm)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 12:15 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 12:17 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 12:25 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 12:25 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 12:28 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 12:35 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 12:42 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 12:45 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 12:49 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 12:55 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Wed Oct 17, 12:56 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 1:05 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 1:10 pm)
Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git, Luca Tettamanti, (Wed Oct 17, 1:15 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 1:24 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Oct 17, 1:51 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 2:11 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, FUJITA Tomonori, (Wed Oct 17, 4:00 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 6:07 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Wed Oct 17, 6:14 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, David Miller, (Wed Oct 17, 6:19 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 6:36 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, David Miller, (Wed Oct 17, 6:49 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 9:01 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Wed Oct 17, 9:14 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 9:20 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Wed Oct 17, 9:31 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 9:45 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 17, 9:53 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Wed Oct 17, 10:45 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 18, 12:05 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Oct 18, 12:07 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 18, 12:09 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 18, 12:10 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 12:30 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 1:22 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 1:38 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 1:51 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 2:01 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 2:32 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 3:04 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Oct 18, 3:13 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Oct 18, 3:49 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 3:50 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Oct 18, 4:03 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, David Miller, (Thu Oct 18, 4:55 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, David Miller, (Thu Oct 18, 5:05 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, David Miller, (Thu Oct 18, 5:36 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Benny Halevy, (Thu Oct 18, 5:58 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Benny Halevy, (Thu Oct 18, 6:49 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Benny Halevy, (Thu Oct 18, 7:16 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Olof Johansson, (Thu Oct 18, 7:58 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 18, 9:55 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 18, 10:01 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Arjan van de Ven, (Thu Oct 18, 10:10 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 18, 10:10 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 18, 10:14 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 18, 12:20 pm)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, FUJITA Tomonori, (Fri Oct 19, 1:59 am)
Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git, Torsten Kaiser, (Sat Oct 20, 4:55 am)