From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:25:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190627082513.GA11043@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR04MB581604217983C81B2BA5BA4FE7FD0@BYAPR04MB5816.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 08:17:08AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > Are your sure that invalidate[|flush]_kernel_vmap_range is needed for
> > bio_copy_kernel? The vmalloc buffer isn't involved in IO, and only
> > accessed by CPU.
>
> Not sure at all. I am a little out of my league here.
> Christoph mentioned that this is necessary.
>
> Christoph, can you confirm ?
Ming is right. Sorry for misleading you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-27 2:49 [PATCH V4 0/3] Fix zone revalidation memory allocation failures Damien Le Moal
2019-06-27 2:49 ` [PATCH V4 1/3] block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers Damien Le Moal
2019-06-27 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-27 8:14 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-06-27 8:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-27 8:37 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-06-27 7:47 ` Ming Lei
2019-06-27 8:17 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-06-27 8:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-06-27 8:36 ` Damien Le Moal
2019-06-27 2:49 ` [PATCH V4 2/3] sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation Damien Le Moal
2019-06-27 2:49 ` [PATCH V4 3/3] block: Limit zone array allocation size Damien Le Moal
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