Re: [PATCH 6/6] xfs: fix xfs to work with Virtually Indexed architectures

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On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:52:16AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> xfs_buf.c includes what is essentially a hand rolled version of
> blk_rq_map_kern().  In order to work properly with the vmalloc buffers
> that xfs uses, this hand rolled routine must also implement the flushing
> API for vmap/vmalloc areas.

It's not really a handcrafted version of blk_rq_map_kern because it
can add discontinuous into a single bio.

The patches look fine to (not pretty but fine :)), and I'll make sure
they get added once those two helpers made it, probably augmented by
a comment explaining what's going on here.

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