Re: [PATCH v2] /dev/zero: also implement ->read

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 10:21:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 10:21:14AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 09:51:43AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Christophe reported a major speedup due to avoiding the iov_iter
> > > overhead, so just add this trivial function.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > > Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Changes since v1:
> > >  - fix the Suggested-by: tag
> > >  - report the actually read bytes in case of a partial clear_user
> > >  - remove an impossible to hit conditional
> > > 
> > >  drivers/char/mem.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> > 
> > I already merged your v1 into my tree, do you want me to revert that and
> > then add this, or can you send me the diff to apply instead?  I can't
> > rebase my public trees.
> 
> Sure, I can send an incremental one.  I vaguely remembered you as one
> of the quilt holdouts.

That's only for stable tree work :)

thanks for the incremental patch, will go apply that now.

greg k-h