From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] bvec/iter: disallow zero-length segment bvecs
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 16:37:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210104163755.GA22407@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b46b8c1943bbefcb90ea5c4dd9beaad8bbc15448.1609461359.git.asml.silence@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 03:17:34PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> @@ -865,3 +865,10 @@ no matter what. Everything is handled by the caller.
>
> clone_private_mount() returns a longterm mount now, so the proper destructor of
> its result is kern_unmount() or kern_unmount_array().
> +
> +---
> +
> +**mandatory**
> +
> +zero-length bvec segments are disallowed, they must be filtered out before
> +passed on to an iterator.
Why are you putting this in filesystems/porting? Filesystems don't usually
generate bvecs ... there's nothing in this current series that stops them.
I'd suggest Documentation/block/biovecs.rst or biodoc.rst (and frankly,
biodoc.rst needs a good cleanup)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-04 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-02 15:17 [PATCH v2 0/7] no-copy bvec Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] splice: don't generate zero-len segement bvecs Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-04 16:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-04 16:54 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] bvec/iter: disallow zero-length segment bvecs Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-04 16:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-04 16:37 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-01-04 17:23 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] block/psi: remove PSI annotations from direct IO Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-04 16:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] target/file: allocate the bvec array as part of struct target_core_file_cmd Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] iov_iter: optimise bvec iov_iter_advance() Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] bio: add a helper calculating nr segments to alloc Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-02 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] bio: don't copy bvec for direct IO Pavel Begunkov
2021-01-04 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
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