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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-10-16 16:40:25 +1100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2009-10-16 16:40:25 +1100
commit5dd33c9a4c29015f6d87568d33521c98931a387e (patch)
treea79ac38e1957580743b708410b54694f2b1cbf77 /drivers/md
parent5e5e3e78ed9038b8f7112835d07084eefb9daa47 (diff)
downloadlinux-5dd33c9a4c29015f6d87568d33521c98931a387e.tar.bz2
md/async: don't pass a memory pointer as a page pointer.
md/raid6 passes a list of 'struct page *' to the async_tx routines, which then either DMA map them for offload, or take the page_address for CPU based calculations. For RAID6 we sometime leave 'blanks' in the list of pages. For CPU based calcs, we want to treat theses as a page of zeros. For offloaded calculations, we simply don't pass a page to the hardware. Currently the 'blanks' are encoded as a pointer to raid6_empty_zero_page. This is a 4096 byte memory region, not a 'struct page'. This is mostly handled correctly but is rather ugly. So change the code to pass and expect a NULL pointer for the blanks. When taking page_address of a page, we need to check for a NULL and in that case use raid6_empty_zero_page. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/raid5.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index c4366c9373c5..dcd9e659ed9d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static int set_syndrome_sources(struct page **srcs, struct stripe_head *sh)
int i;
for (i = 0; i < disks; i++)
- srcs[i] = (void *)raid6_empty_zero_page;
+ srcs[i] = NULL;
count = 0;
i = d0_idx;
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ ops_run_compute6_2(struct stripe_head *sh, struct raid5_percpu *percpu)
* slot number conversion for 'faila' and 'failb'
*/
for (i = 0; i < disks ; i++)
- blocks[i] = (void *)raid6_empty_zero_page;
+ blocks[i] = NULL;
count = 0;
i = d0_idx;
do {