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Message-ID: <ZKbeZ3yq5y8ORCZH@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 6 Jul 2023 08:31:51 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/11] iov_iter: Drop iov_iter_rw() and fold in last
 user

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 04:25:21PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Drop the last usage of iov_iter_rw() into __iov_iter_get_pages_alloc().

Well, if we can't just drop this check entirely, the rest of the prep
work is just churn and not actually very useful.  Shouldn't we go
all the way and kill ITER_DEST/SOURCE?

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