linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 09/54] block: comment on bio_iov_iter_get

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Date:   Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:55:58 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH v1 09/54] block: comment on bio_iov_iter_get_pages()

bio_iov_iter_get_pages() used unused bvec spaces for
storing page pointer array temporarily, and this patch
comments on this usage wrt. multipage bvec support.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
---
 block/bio.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index d4a1e0b63ea0..10398969353b 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -859,6 +859,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_add_page);
  *
  * Pins as many pages from *iter and appends them to @bio's bvec array. The
  * pages will have to be released using put_page() when done.
+ *
+ * The hacking way of using bvec table as page pointer array is safe
+ * even after multipage bvec is introduced because that space can be
+ * thought as unused by bio_add_page().
  */
 int bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
 {
-- 
2.7.4