From 395d8ef5bebe547a80737692f9789d2e36da16f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:32:14 +0100 Subject: ide-disk: fix flush requests (take 2) commit 813a0eb233ee67d7166241a8b389b6a76f2247f9 Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Fri Jan 25 22:17:10 2008 +0100 ide: switch idedisk_prepare_flush() to use REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE requests ... broke flush requests. Allocating IDE command structure on the stack for flush requests is not a very brilliant idea: - idedisk_prepare_flush() only prepares the request and it doesn't wait for it to be completed - there are can be multiple flush requests queued in the queue Fix the problem (per hints from James Bottomley) by: - dynamically allocating ide_task_t instance using kmalloc(..., GFP_ATOMIC) - adding new taskfile flag (IDE_TFLAG_DYN) - calling kfree() in ide_end_drive_command() if IDE_TFLAG_DYN is set (while at it rename 'args' to 'task' and fix whitespace damage) [ This will be fixed properly before 2.6.25 but this bug is rather critical and the proper solution requires some more work + testing. ] Thanks to Sebastian Siewior and Christoph Hellwig for reporting the problem and testing patches (extra thanks to Sebastian for bisecting it to the guilty commmit). Tested-by: Sebastian Siewior Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Sergei Shtylyov Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- include/linux/ide.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/ide.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h index 40a01c3592d..23fad89292d 100644 --- a/include/linux/ide.h +++ b/include/linux/ide.h @@ -906,6 +906,8 @@ enum { IDE_TFLAG_IN_DEVICE, /* force 16-bit I/O operations */ IDE_TFLAG_IO_16BIT = (1 << 30), + /* ide_task_t was allocated using kmalloc() */ + IDE_TFLAG_DYN = (1 << 31), }; struct ide_taskfile { -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2