linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/12] block: bio_release_pages: use flags arg instead of bool

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Message-ID: <20190729205721.GB3760@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:57:21 -0400
From:   Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     john.hubbard@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] block: bio_release_pages: use flags arg instead of
 bool

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:30:53PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:25:09PM -0700, john.hubbard@...il.com wrote:
> > From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> > 
> > In commit d241a95f3514 ("block: optionally mark pages dirty in
> > bio_release_pages"), new "bool mark_dirty" argument was added to
> > bio_release_pages.
> > 
> > In upcoming work, another bool argument (to indicate that the pages came
> > from get_user_pages) is going to be added. That's one bool too many,
> > because it's not desirable have calls of the form:
> 
> All pages releases by bio_release_pages should come from
> get_get_user_pages, so I don't really see the point here.

No they do not all comes from GUP for see various callers
of bio_check_pages_dirty() for instance iomap_dio_zero()

I have carefully tracked down all this and i did not do
anyconvertion just for the fun of it :)

Cheers,
Jérôme