On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 12:03:43PM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> >> + /*
> >> + * Since the failed bio can return partial data, bi_sector might be
> >> + * incremented by that value. We need to revert it back to the
> >> + * state before the bio was submitted.
> >> + */
> >> + physical -= bio->bi_iter.bi_done;
> >
> > The bi_done member has been removed in recent block layer changes
> > commit 7759eb23fd9808a2e4498cf36a798ed65cde78ae ("block: remove
> > bio_rewind_iter()"). I wonder what kind of block-magic do we need to do
> > as the iterators seem to be local and there's nothing available in the
> > call chain leading to find_bio_stripe. Johannes, any ideas?
>
> Right, what we could do here is go the same way Ming did in
> 7759eb23fd980 ("block: remove bio_rewind_iter()") and save a bvec_iter
> somewhere before submission and then see if we returned partial data,
> but this somehow feels wrong to me (at least to do in btrfs code instead
> of the block layer).
> Ming can we resurrect ->bi_done, or do you have a different suggestion
> for finding about partial written bios?
I don't think bi_done can be resurrected
(https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=153549921116441&w=2) but I still am
not sure that saving the iterator is the right thing (or at least how to
do that right, not that the whole idea is wrong).
