On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 03:30:41AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > When working on the vmcore conversion to iov_iter, I noticed we had a > lot of places that construct a single kvec on the stack, and it seems a > little wasteful. Adding an ITER_KADDR type makes the iov_iter a little > easier to use. > > I included conversion of 9p to use ITER_KADDR so you can see whether you > think it's worth doing. While it does look sensible on its own, I'm rather worried about bloating the iov_iter interface with ever more types.