On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:50:40 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:10 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:03:51 -0600 > > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > This updates bio_map_kern() to check for pages in the vmalloc address > > > range and call the new kernel flushing APIs if the are. This should > > > allow any kernel user to pass a vmalloc/vmap area to block. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > fs/bio.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- > > > 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > Do we need this? > > > > Buffers that xfs_buf.c passes to block doesn't go to bio_map_kern()? > > For completeness, yes ... because xfs *should* be passing its buffers to > bio_map_kern() ... it just happens to roll its own. Ok, you mean that we will convert XFS to use bio_map_kern(). But adding another trick to bio_map_kern() to handle a vmalloc/vmap area is a good move? Only XFS do such, right? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
