ide-disk: fix flush requests (take 2)

commit 813a0eb233ee67d7166241a8b389b6a76f2247f9
Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 25 22:17:10 2008 +0100

    ide: switch idedisk_prepare_flush() to use REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE requests

...

broke flush requests.

Allocating IDE command structure on the stack for flush requests is not
a very brilliant idea:

- idedisk_prepare_flush() only prepares the request and it doesn't wait
  for it to be completed

- there are can be multiple flush requests queued in the queue

Fix the problem (per hints from James Bottomley) by:
- dynamically allocating ide_task_t instance using kmalloc(..., GFP_ATOMIC)
- adding new taskfile flag (IDE_TFLAG_DYN)
- calling kfree() in ide_end_drive_command() if IDE_TFLAG_DYN is set
  (while at it rename 'args' to 'task' and fix whitespace damage)

[ This will be fixed properly before 2.6.25 but this bug is rather
  critical and the proper solution requires some more work + testing. ]

Thanks to Sebastian Siewior and Christoph Hellwig for reporting the
problem and testing patches (extra thanks to Sebastian for bisecting
it to the guilty commmit).

Tested-by: Sebastian Siewior <ide-bug@ml.breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h
index 40a01c3592df..23fad89292df 100644
--- a/include/linux/ide.h
+++ b/include/linux/ide.h
@@ -906,6 +906,8 @@ enum {
                                           IDE_TFLAG_IN_DEVICE,
         /* force 16-bit I/O operations */
         IDE_TFLAG_IO_16BIT              = (1 << 30),
+        /* ide_task_t was allocated using kmalloc() */
+        IDE_TFLAG_DYN                   = (1 << 31),
 };
 
 struct ide_taskfile {