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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: fix qdisk BLKIF_OP_DISCARD for
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Juergen Gross |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: fix qdisk BLKIF_OP_DISCARD for 32/64 word size mix |
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Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:18:44 +0200 |
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On 16/06/16 13:24, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xen-devel [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
>> Juergen Gross
>> Sent: 16 June 2016 11:02
>> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
>> Cc: Anthony Perard; Juergen Gross; address@hidden;
>> address@hidden
>> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: fix qdisk BLKIF_OP_DISCARD for 32/64
>> word size mix
>>
>> In case the word size of the domU and qemu running the qdisk backend
>> differ BLKIF_OP_DISCARD will not work reliably, as the request
>> structure in the ring have different layouts for different word size.
>>
>> Correct this by copying the request structure in case of different
>> word size element by element in the BLKIF_OP_DISCARD case, too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <address@hidden>
>
> Would it not be better to re-import the canonical blkif header as a whole
> rather than cherry-picking like this? You'd need to post-process to maintain
> style and possibly change some names for compatibility etc. but probably
> nothing beyond what indent and a simple [s]ed script can do.
> I did broadly the same thing to re-import the netif header into Linux
> recently.
It's a little bit more than indent/sed, but nothing really scary.
I'll do it.
Juergen