Re: [PATCH v2 15/21] xen-blkfront: Make use of the new sg_map helper function

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:03:45PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On 27/04/17 04:11 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:53:37PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Well, that is in the current form, with more users it would make sense
> > to optimize for the single page case, eg by providing the existing
> > call, providing a faster single-page-only variant of the copy, perhaps
> > even one that is inlined.
> 
> Ok, does it make sense then to have an sg_copy_page_to_buffer (or some
> such... I'm having trouble thinking of a sane name that isn't too long).
> That just does k(un)map_atomic and memcpy? I could try that if it makes
> sense to people.

It seems the most robust: test for iomem, and jump to a slow path
copy, otherwise inline the kmap and memcpy

Every place doing memcpy from sgl will need that pattern to be
correct.

> > sg_miter will still fail when the sg contains __iomem, however I would
> > expect that the sg_copy will work with iomem, by using the __iomem
> > memcpy variant.
> 
> Yes, that's true. Any sg_miters that ever see iomem will need to be
> converted to support it. This isn't much different than the other
> kmap(sg_page()) users I was converting that will also fail if they see
> iomem. Though, I suspect an sg_miter user would be easier to convert to
> iomem than a random kmap user.

How? sg_miter seems like the next nightmare down this path, what is
sg_miter_next supposed to do when something hits an iomem sgl?

miter.addr is supposed to be a kernel pointer that must not be
__iomem..

Jason