From patchwork Mon Jun 26 12:09:45 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ming Lei X-Patchwork-Id: 9809171 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9955760329 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A052E28534 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 94A822857B; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:12:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F23D28534 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751920AbdFZMMD (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:12:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53700 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751491AbdFZMMC (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:12:02 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D62E14E048; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:11:51 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com D62E14E048 Authentication-Results: ext-mx09.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx09.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ming.lei@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com D62E14E048 Received: from localhost (ovpn-12-86.pek2.redhat.com [10.72.12.86]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C3878915; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:11:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Ming Lei 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 Subject: [PATCH v2 02/51] block: loop: comment on direct access to bvec table Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:09:45 +0800 Message-Id: <20170626121034.3051-3-ming.lei@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170626121034.3051-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> References: <20170626121034.3051-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.38]); Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:11:52 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP 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 0de11444e317..88063ab17e9a 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));