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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 2016-06-15 04:20 +0200
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>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

Christoph> We can move the sanity checks out.  Or even better get rid of
Christoph> the stupid behavior of ignoring the late -EOPNOTSUPP in this
Christoph> low level helper and instead leaving it to the caller(s) that
Christoph> care.

It definitely should be a caller decision whether to ignore the return
value or not.

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

Christoph> And I'd much prefer to get this right now.  It's not like
Christoph> this is recently introduced behavior.

Unfortunately there are quite a few callers of blkdev_issue_discard()
these days. Some of them ignore the return value but not all of
them. I'm concerned about causing all sorts of breakage if we suddenly
start returning errors various places in the stable trees.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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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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