From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f199.google.com (mail-qt0-f199.google.com [209.85.216.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE94F6B02B4 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2017 04:46:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qt0-f199.google.com with SMTP id v49so12684189qtc.2 for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c38si784614qtc.31.2017.08.08.01.46.37 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:46:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Ming Lei Subject: [PATCH v3 02/49] block: loop: comment on direct access to bvec table Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 16:45:01 +0800 Message-Id: <20170808084548.18963-3-ming.lei@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170808084548.18963-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> References: <20170808084548.18963-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Huang Ying , Andrew Morton , Alexander Viro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Ming Lei --- drivers/block/loop.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index ef8334949b42..58df9ed70328 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -487,6 +487,11 @@ static int lo_rw_aio(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_cmd *cmd, /* nomerge for loop request queue */ WARN_ON(cmd->rq->bio != cmd->rq->biotail); + /* + * For multipage bvec support, it is safe to pass the bvec + * table to iov iterator, because iov iter still uses bvec + * iter helpers to travese bvec. + */ bvec = __bvec_iter_bvec(bio->bi_io_vec, bio->bi_iter); iov_iter_bvec(&iter, ITER_BVEC | rw, bvec, bio_segments(bio), blk_rq_bytes(cmd->rq)); -- 2.9.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org