On Mon, Nov 06 2023 at 10:16P -0500,
Keith Busch wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 03:59:40PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > There's a bug that when using the XEN hypervisor with dm-crypt on NVMe,
> > the kernel deadlocks [1].
> >
> > The deadlocks are caused by inability to map a large bio v
On Thu, Feb 02 2023 at 1:41P -0500,
Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 11:50:37AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25 2023 at 10:33P -0500,
> > Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> >
> > > This work aims to allow userspace to create and destroy
On Wed, Jan 25 2023 at 10:33P -0500,
Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> This work aims to allow userspace to create and destroy block devices
> in a race-free and leak-free way,
"race-free and leak-free way" implies there both races and leaks in
existing code. You're making claims that are likely very
On Mon, Jan 24 2022 at 4:10P -0500,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use blkdev_issue_flush, which uses an on-stack bio instead of an
> opencoded version with a bio embedded into struct pool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
On Mon, Jan 24 2022 at 4:10P -0500,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use blkdev_issue_flush, which uses an on-stack bio instead of an
> opencoded version with a bio embedded into struct dm_snapshot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
; Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
On Mon, Jan 24 2022 at 4:10P -0500,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Remove handling of NULL returns from sleeping bio_alloc calls given that
> those can't fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:05 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Use set_capacity_and_notify to set the size of both the disk and block
> device. This also gets the uevent notifications for the resize for free.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke
> ---
> drivers/md
