Re: [PATCH v5 8/9] iov_iter, block: Make bio structs pin pages rather than ref'ing if appropriate

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Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But given that all calls for the same iter type return the same
> cleanup_mode by defintion I'm not even sure we need any of this
> debug checking, and might as well just do:
> 
> 	if (cleanup_mode & FOLL_GET)
>  		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_PAGE_REFFED);
>  	else if (cleanup_mode & FOLL_PIN)
>  		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_PAGE_PINNED);

That's kind of what I'm doing - though I've left out the else just in case the
VM decides to indicate back both FOLL_GET and FOLL_PIN.  I'm not sure why it
would but...

David




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