Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: fix alignment mismatch.

[Nathan Chancellor]

Hi Jian,

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 10:57:54AM -0700, Jian Cai wrote:
> So this issue is blocking the LLVM upgrading on ChromeOS. Nathan, do
> you mind sending out the smaller patch like Nick suggested just to see
> what feedback we could get? I could send it for you if you are busy,
> and please let me know what tags I should use in that case.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jian

I will go ahead and send the smaller patch at some point today.

For what it's worth, Nick brought up https://reviews.llvm.org/D100037,
which may be relevant here.

Cheers,
Nathan

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 3:06 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:58 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 02:27:03PM -0700, Jian Cai wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I just realized you already proposed solutions for skipping the check
> > > > in https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20210310225240.4epj2mdmzt4vurr3@archlinux-ax161/#t.
> > > > Do you have any plans to send them for review?
> > >
> > > I was hoping to gather some feedback on which option would be preferred
> > > by Jens and the other ClangBuiltLinux folks before I sent them along. I
> > > can send the first just to see what kind of feedback I can gather.
> >
> > Either approach is fine by me. The smaller might be easier to get
> > accepted into stable. The larger approach will probably become more
> > useful in the future (having the diag infra work properly with clang).
> > I think the ball is kind of in Jens' court to decide.  Would doing
> > both be appropriate, Jens? Have the smaller patch tagged for stable
> > disabling it for the whole file, then another commit on top not tagged
> > for stable that adds the diag infra, and a third on top replacing the
> > file level warning disablement with local diags to isolate this down
> > to one case?  It's a fair but small amount of churn IMO; but if Jens
> > is not opposed it seems fine?
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > ~Nick Desaulniers