Re: [PATCH 1/6] block: ensure we don't truncate top bits of the request command flags

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Mar 22 2016 - 14:59:13 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:55:15AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Some of the flags that we want to use from the make_request_fn path
> are now larger than 32-bit, so change the functions involved to
> accept an u64 instead of an unsigned int.

When did we start doing that? We really should merge Mike's split
of the operation style flags into the cmd_type before making things
even worse in the flags area.