linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] block: Rename BIO_NO_PAGE_REF to BIO_PAGE

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:38:45 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] block: Rename BIO_NO_PAGE_REF to BIO_PAGE_REFFED and invert the meaning

Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> ... I've put together a version of this series that implements this and my
> other suggestions here:
> 
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/dio-pin-pages
> 
> This also tests fine with xfs and btrfs and nvme passthrough I/O.

That looks okay.  Do you need to put a Co-developed-by tag on the "block:
invert BIO_NO_PAGE_REF" patch?

Should I take that set of patches and send it on to Linus when the window
opens?  Or should it go through the block tree?

David