Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix bdrv_check_request for byte-granularity requests

[Anthony Liguori]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:00:03PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>   
> > We never allow the offset to be byte-granularity for the sector-based
> > interface, instead the negative value for byte values applied to the
> > request length.
> >     
>
> Actually - looking over the updates that happened during the week that
> I was away it looks like the whole negative length hack is gone now,
> so we can simplify bdrv_check_request instead:
>   

Needs a SoB.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Index: qemu/block.c
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu.orig/block.c   2009-03-14 14:34:49.000000000 +0100
> +++ qemu/block.c        2009-03-14 14:35:12.000000000 +0100
> @@ -546,15 +546,7 @@ static int bdrv_check_byte_request(Block
>  static int bdrv_check_request(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
>                                int nb_sectors)
>  {
> -    int64_t offset;
> -
> -    /* Deal with byte accesses */
> -    if (sector_num < 0)
> -        offset = -sector_num;
> -    else
> -        offset = sector_num * 512;
> -
> -    return bdrv_check_byte_request(bs, offset, nb_sectors * 512);
> +    return bdrv_check_byte_request(bs, sector_num * 512, nb_sectors * 512);
>  }
>  
>  /* return < 0 if error. See bdrv_write() for the return codes */
>
>
>
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