linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/29] iov_iter: Switch to using a table of operations

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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:21:38 +0000
From:   Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/29] iov_iter: Switch to using a table of operations

On 21/11/2020 14:31, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 21/11/2020 14:13, David Howells wrote:
>> Switch to using a table of operations.  In a future patch the individual
>> methods will be split up by type.  For the moment, however, the ops tables
>> just jump directly to the old functions - which are now static.  Inline
>> wrappers are provided to jump through the hooks.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>
>>  fs/io_uring.c       |    2 
>>  include/linux/uio.h |  241 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>  lib/iov_iter.c      |  293 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>  3 files changed, 422 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
>> index 4ead291b2976..baa78f58ae5c 100644
>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>> @@ -3192,7 +3192,7 @@ static void io_req_map_rw(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct iovec *iovec,
>>  	rw->free_iovec = iovec;
>>  	rw->bytes_done = 0;
>>  	/* can only be fixed buffers, no need to do anything */
>> -	if (iter->type == ITER_BVEC)
>> +	if (iov_iter_is_bvec(iter))
> 
> Could you split this io_uring change and send for 5.10?
> Or I can do it for you if you wish.

FYI, I stole this chunk with right attributes. It should go through
io_uring 5.10, so shouldn't be a problem if you just drop it.

-- 
Pavel Begunkov