From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80491C64EB4 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540ED20868 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:21:04 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 540ED20868 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=zeniv.linux.org.uk Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726616AbeLAGbV (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2018 01:31:21 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:51066 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725790AbeLAGbV (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2018 01:31:21 -0500 Received: from viro by ZenIV.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.91 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gSoLW-0008Du-Bk; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:21:02 +0000 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:21:02 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, hch@lst.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/27] block: implement bio helper to add iter kvec pages to bio Message-ID: <20181130192102.GP2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20181130165646.27341-1-axboe@kernel.dk> <20181130165646.27341-25-axboe@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181130165646.27341-25-axboe@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:56:43AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > For an ITER_KVEC, we can just iterate the iov and add the pages > to the bio directly. > + page = virt_to_page(kv->iov_base); > + size = bio_add_page(bio, page, kv->iov_len, > + offset_in_page(kv->iov_base)); Who said that you *can* do virt_to_page() on those? E.g. vmalloc()'ed addresses are fine for ITER_KVEC, etc.