linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH V11 07/19] fs/buffer.c: use bvec iterator to truncate the bio

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Date:   Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:58:49 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>, linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org,
        Boaz Harrosh <ooo@...ctrozaur.com>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V11 07/19] fs/buffer.c: use bvec iterator to truncate
 the bio

Btw, given that this is the last user of bvec_last_segment after my
other patches I think we should kill bvec_last_segment and do something
like this here:


diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index fa37ad52e962..af5e135d2b83 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2981,6 +2981,14 @@ static void end_bio_bh_io_sync(struct bio *bio)
 	bio_put(bio);
 }
 
+static void zero_trailing_sectors(struct bio_vec *bvec, unsigned bytes)
+{
+	unsigned last_page = (bvec->bv_offset + bvec->bv_len - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+	zero_user(nth_page(bvec->bv_page, last_page),
+		  bvec->bv_offset % PAGE_SIZE + bvec->bv_len, bytes);
+}
+
 /*
  * This allows us to do IO even on the odd last sectors
  * of a device, even if the block size is some multiple
@@ -3031,13 +3039,8 @@ void guard_bio_eod(int op, struct bio *bio)
 	bvec->bv_len -= truncated_bytes;
 
 	/* ..and clear the end of the buffer for reads */
-	if (op == REQ_OP_READ) {
-		struct bio_vec bv;
-
-		bvec_last_segment(bvec, &bv);
-		zero_user(bv.bv_page, bv.bv_offset + bv.bv_len,
-				truncated_bytes);
-	}
+	if (op == REQ_OP_READ)
+		zero_trailing_sectors(bvec, truncated_bytes);
 }
 
 static int submit_bh_wbc(int op, int op_flags, struct buffer_head *bh,