Coly Li wrote:
> This is the v7 version of the badblocks improvement series, which makes
> badblocks APIs to handle multiple ranges in bad block table.

Just in case I missed anyone on this original thread I've found issues
with this series which I emailed Coly about here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/6585d5fda5183_9f731294b9@iweiny-mobl.notmuch/

Ira

> 
> The change comparing to previous v6 version is the modifications
> enlightened by the code review comments from Xiao Ni,
> - Typo fixes in code comments and commit logs.
> - Tiny but useful optimzation in prev_badblocks(), front_overwrite(),
>   _badblocks_clear().
> 
> There is NO in-memory or on-disk format change in the whole series, all
> existing API and data structures are consistent. This series just only
> improve the code algorithm to handle more corner cases, the interfaces
> are same and consistency to all existing callers (md raid and nvdimm
> drivers).
> 
> The original motivation of the change is from the requirement from our
> customer, that current badblocks routines don't handle multiple ranges.
> For example if the bad block setting range covers multiple ranges from
> bad block table, only the first two bad block ranges merged and rested
> ranges are intact. The expected behavior should be all the covered
> ranges to be handled.
> 
> All the patches are tested by modified user space code and the code
> logic works as expected. The modified user space testing code is
> provided in the last patch, which is not listed in the cover letter. The
> testing code is an example how the improved code is tested.
> 
> The whole change is divided into 6 patches to make the code review more
> clear and easier. If people prefer, I'd like to post a single large
> patch finally after the code review accomplished.
> 
> Please review the code and response. Thank you all in advance.
> 
> Coly Li
> 
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> Cc: Geliang Tang <geliang.t...@suse.com>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
> Cc: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>
> Cc: Richard Fan <richard....@suse.com>
> Cc: Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.ve...@intel.com>
> Cc: Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk>
> Cc: Xiao Ni <x...@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Coly Li (6):
>   badblocks: add more helper structure and routines in badblocks.h
>   badblocks: add helper routines for badblock ranges handling
>   badblocks: improve badblocks_set() for multiple ranges handling
>   badblocks: improve badblocks_clear() for multiple ranges handling
>   badblocks: improve badblocks_check() for multiple ranges handling
>   badblocks: switch to the improved badblock handling code
> 
>  block/badblocks.c         | 1618 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  include/linux/badblocks.h |   30 +
>  2 files changed, 1354 insertions(+), 294 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.35.3
> 
> 

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