linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv6 17/37] fs: make block_read_full

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Message-ID: <20170210175852.GE2267@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:58:52 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 17/37] fs: make block_read_full_page() be able to read
 huge page

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:57:59PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The approach is straight-forward: for compound pages we read out whole
> huge page.

Ouch.  bufferheads must die ;-)

> For huge page we cannot have array of buffer head pointers on stack --
> it's 4096 pointers on x86-64 -- 'arr' is allocated with kmalloc() for
> huge pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>