Commit 503be986 authored by Jonathan Corbet's avatar Jonathan Corbet Committed by Dave Jones

[PATCH] Request queue micropatch

FYI, I have gotten some most strange results with the equivalent of:

     request_queue_t *q = kmalloc(...);
     blk_init_queue(q, ...)

The problem turns out to be that q->backing_dev_info.memory_backed is not
initialized, leaving it to be whatever was there before.  The end result is
that my "driver" never saw write requests, but reads came through fine.
Took a while to figure out that one...

Here's the fix, for what it's worth.  (I had, BTW, tried just zeroing the
whole structure in blk_init_queue(), but that makes IDE oops at boot - it
sets q->queuedata early).
parent 068130cf
......@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ void blk_queue_make_request(request_queue_t * q, make_request_fn * mfn)
q->make_request_fn = mfn;
q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = (VM_MAX_READAHEAD * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
q->backing_dev_info.state = 0;
q->backing_dev_info.memory_backed = 0;
blk_queue_max_sectors(q, MAX_SECTORS);
blk_queue_hardsect_size(q, 512);
blk_queue_dma_alignment(q, 511);
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