linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] block: check virt boundary in bio_will

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:22:57 +0200
From:	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] block: check virt boundary in bio_will_gap()


> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> index 4571ef1..b8ff6a3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> @@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ static inline bool bvec_gap_to_prev(struct request_queue *q,
>   static inline bool bio_will_gap(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *prev,
>   			 struct bio *next)
>   {
> -	if (!bio_has_data(prev))
> +	if (!bio_has_data(prev) || !queue_virt_boundary(q))
>   		return false;

Can we not do that?

bvec_gap_to_prev is already checking the virt_boundary and I'd sorta
like to keep the motivation to optimize bio_get_last_bvec() to be O(1).