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Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout

From "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout
Date 2016-06-11 04:00 +0200
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>>>>> "Shaohua" == Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> writes:

Shaohua,

>> What does the extra io_err buy us? Just have this function return an
>> error. And then in blkdev_issue_discard if you get -EOPNOTSUPP you
>> special case it there.

Shaohua> The __blkdev_issue_discard returns -EOPNOTSUPP if disk doesn't
Shaohua> support discard.  in that case, blkdev_issue_discard doesn't
Shaohua> return 0. blkdev_issue_discard only returns 0 if IO error is
Shaohua> -EOPNOTSUPP.

Oh, I see. The sanity checks are now in __blkdev_issue_discard() so
there is no way to distinguish between -EOPNOTSUPP and the other
-EOPNOTSUPP. *sigh*

I am OK with your patch as a stable fix but this really needs to be
fixed up properly.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-10 04:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-11 04:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-06-13 10:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-06-14 20:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-15 04:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-06-15 04:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-15 04:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH V2] block: correctly fallback for zeroout Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 23:30 +0200

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