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authorFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>2008-07-04 09:30:03 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-07-04 09:52:13 +0200
commit27f8221af406e43b529a5425bc99c9b1e9bdf521 (patch)
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parent2610324fcacf38a24b630090ebcb802538763187 (diff)
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block: add blk_queue_update_dma_pad
This adds blk_queue_update_dma_pad to prevent LLDs from overwriting the dma pad mask wrongly (we added blk_queue_update_dma_alignment due to the same reason). This also converts libata to use blk_queue_update_dma_pad instead of blk_queue_dma_pad. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-settings.c24
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index 8dd86418f35d..dfc77012843f 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -302,11 +302,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_stack_limits);
* @q: the request queue for the device
* @mask: pad mask
*
- * Set pad mask. Direct IO requests are padded to the mask specified.
+ * Set dma pad mask.
*
- * Appending pad buffer to a request modifies ->data_len such that it
- * includes the pad buffer. The original requested data length can be
- * obtained using blk_rq_raw_data_len().
+ * Appending pad buffer to a request modifies the last entry of a
+ * scatter list such that it includes the pad buffer.
**/
void blk_queue_dma_pad(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int mask)
{
@@ -315,6 +314,23 @@ void blk_queue_dma_pad(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int mask)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_dma_pad);
/**
+ * blk_queue_update_dma_pad - update pad mask
+ * @q: the request queue for the device
+ * @mask: pad mask
+ *
+ * Update dma pad mask.
+ *
+ * Appending pad buffer to a request modifies the last entry of a
+ * scatter list such that it includes the pad buffer.
+ **/
+void blk_queue_update_dma_pad(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int mask)
+{
+ if (mask > q->dma_pad_mask)
+ q->dma_pad_mask = mask;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_update_dma_pad);
+
+/**
* blk_queue_dma_drain - Set up a drain buffer for excess dma.
* @q: the request queue for the device
* @dma_drain_needed: fn which returns non-zero if drain is necessary