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The current null_blk implementation checks if any bad blocks exist in the target blocks of each IO. If so, the IO fails and data is not transferred for all of the IO target blocks. However, when real storage devices have bad blocks, the devices may transfer data partially up to the first bad blocks (e.g., SAS drives). Especially, when the IO is a write operation, such partial IO leaves partially written data on the device. To simulate such partial IO using null_blk, introduce the new parameter 'badblocks_partial_io'. When this parameter is set, null_handle_badblocks() returns the number of the sectors for the partial IO as its third pointer argument. Pass the returned number of sectors to the following calls to null_handle_memory_backend() in null_process_cmd() and null_zone_write(). Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226100613.1622564-6-shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.