Re: Possibly wrong BIO usage in ide_multwrite

From: Christophe Saout
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 07:42:47 EST


On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:59:52AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> On Monday 05 of January 2004 23:51, Christophe Saout wrote:
> > Remember? Can bio be NULL somewhere? Or what do you mean? It's our
> > scratchpad and ide_multwrite never puts a NULL bio on it.
>
> After last sector of the whole transfer is processed ide_multwrite() will set
> it to NULL.

No, it doesn't.


> /* end early early we ran out of requests */
> if (!bio) {
> mcount = 0;
> } else {
> rq->bio = bio;
> rq->nr_cbio_segments = bio_segments(bio);
> rq->current_nr_sectors = bio_cur_sectors(bio);
> rq->hard_cur_sectors = rq->current_nr_sectors;
> }

rq->bio is only set if bio is not NULL.

> Next IRQ is only ACK of previous datablock, no transfer happens.

You're right, the bi_idx resetting might be redundant but since bio is
never NULL an additional check is superfluous.

> Move it before the comment.

Ok. I will repost when the issue above is worked out.

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