[dm-devel] [PATCH 01/16] block: fix elevator init check

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 01/23/2017 04:29 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We can't initalize the elevator fields for flushes as flush share space
> in struct request with the elevator data.  But currently we can't
> commnicate that a request is a flush through blk_get_request as we
> can only pass READ or WRITE, and the low-level code looks at the
> possible NULL bio to check for a flush.
> 
> Fix this by allowing to pass any block op and flags, and by checking for
> the flush flags in __get_request.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>  block/blk-core.c | 26 ++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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