[PATCH 0/5] Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required

Huaisheng Ye
2018-07-24T08:45:05Z

Some functions within fs/dax and dax/super don't need to get kaddr from
direct_access. Assigning NULL to kaddr to ->direct_access() is more
straightforward and simple than offering a useless local pointer.

So all direct_access() need to check the validity of second rank pointer
kaddr for NULL assignment. If kaddr equals to NULL, it doesn't need to
calculate its value.

* This series are supplement to [PATCH v2 00/14]mm: Asynchronous +
multithreaded memmap init for ZONE_DEVICE. [1]

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/16/828

Huaisheng Ye (5):
libnvdimm, pmem: Allow a NULL-kaddr to ->direct_access()
tools/testing/nvdimm: Allow a NULL-kaddr to ->direct_access()
s390, dcssblk: Allow a NULL-kaddr to ->direct_access()
filesystem-dax: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required
dax/super: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required

drivers/dax/super.c | 3 +--
drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 4 +++-
drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c | 3 ++-
fs/dax.c | 3 +--
tools/testing/nvdimm/pmem-dax.c | 6 ++++--
5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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