linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] iov_iter: Don't deal with iter->copy_mc in memcpy_from_iter

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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:42:32 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...t.de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] iov_iter: Don't deal with iter->copy_mc in memcpy_from_iter_mc()

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Well, that part is trivially fixable, and we should do that anyway for
> other reasons.
> ..
>  enum iter_type {
>  	/* iter types */
> -	ITER_IOVEC,
> -	ITER_KVEC,
> -	ITER_BVEC,
> -	ITER_XARRAY,
> -	ITER_DISCARD,
> -	ITER_UBUF,
> +	ITER_IOVEC = 1,
> +	ITER_UBUF = 2,
> +	ITER_KVEC = 4,
> +	ITER_BVEC = 8,
> +	ITER_XARRAY = 16,
> +	ITER_DISCARD = 32,
>  };

It used to be this way, but Al switched it:

	8cd54c1c848031a87820e58d772166ffdf8c08c0
	iov_iter: separate direction from flavour

David