On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:45:45PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > It's not that it's technically hard to fix up, it's more that it's a > pain in the ass to have to do it. For instance, for blk_execute_rq(), we > either should enforce that the caller allocates it dynamically and then > free it, or we need nasty hack where the caller needs to know he has to > free it. Pretty obvious what I would prefer there. > > And yes, there would be a good chunk of other places where this would > nede to be fixed up...
My planned rework for the BLOCK_PC code (split all fields for them out of struct request and move them into a separate, driver-allocate structure) would fix this up as a side-effect. I really wanted to get it into 4.10, but I didn't manage to fix it up. I'll try to get it into 4.11 early.
