Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Ming Lei <> | Subject | [PATCH v1 09/54] block: comment on bio_iov_iter_get_pages() | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:55:58 +0800 |
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bio_iov_iter_get_pages() used unused bvec spaces for storing page pointer array temporarily, and this patch comments on this usage wrt. multipage bvec support.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> --- block/bio.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c index d4a1e0b63ea0..10398969353b 100644 --- a/block/bio.c +++ b/block/bio.c @@ -859,6 +859,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_add_page); * * Pins as many pages from *iter and appends them to @bio's bvec array. The * pages will have to be released using put_page() when done. + * + * The hacking way of using bvec table as page pointer array is safe + * even after multipage bvec is introduced because that space can be + * thought as unused by bio_add_page(). */ int bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter) { -- 2.7.4
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