Re: [PATCH 03/12] block: bio_release_pages: use flags arg instead of bool

Jerome Glisse
2019-07-29T20:57:41Z

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:30:53PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:25:09PM -0700, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> >
> > In commit d241a95f3514 ("block: optionally mark pages dirty in
> > bio_release_pages"), new "bool mark_dirty" argument was added to
> > bio_release_pages.
> >
> > In upcoming work, another bool argument (to indicate that the pages came
> > from get_user_pages) is going to be added. That's one bool too many,
> > because it's not desirable have calls of the form:
>
> All pages releases by bio_release_pages should come from
> get_get_user_pages, so I don't really see the point here.

No they do not all comes from GUP for see various callers
of bio_check_pages_dirty() for instance iomap_dio_zero()

I have carefully tracked down all this and i did not do
anyconvertion just for the fun of it :)

Cheers,
Jérôme