Re: [PATCHv2 0/4] blk_execute_rq{_nowait} cleanup part1

From: Marcos Paulo de Souza
Date: Tue Aug 13 2019 - 22:04:32 EST


On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:47:17AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 8/9/19 3:54 AM, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> > After checking the request_queue argument of funtion blk_execute_rq_nowait, I
> > now added three more patches, one to remove the same argument from
> > blk_execute_rq and other two to change the at_head argument from
> > blk_exeute_rq_{nowait} from int to bool.
> >
> > Original patch can be checked here[1].
> >
> > After this patch gets merged, my plan is to analyse the usage the gendisk
> > argument, is being set as NULL but the majority of callers.
> >
> > [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/6/31
>
> Don't ever send something out that hasn't even been compiled. I already
> detest doing kernel-wide cleanup changes like this, but when I do, I
> need absolute confidence in it actually being tested. The fact that it
> hasn't even been compiled is a big black mark on the submitter.

My bad. I compiled the code locally and tested in VM, but later on I removed
the semicolon by mistake while reviewing the changes once more and the code
was commited without the semicolon. I'm improving my setup (scripts
and whatnot) to avoid this happening again in the future.

>
> --
> Jens Axboe
>