On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:50:01PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:38 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'd rather see this merged with the last one (and patch 3 dropped as > > it just gets removed entirely in 4) - that fixes all the issues together > > and doesn't require your patch 1 as as a workaround first. > > Patch 1 isn't a workaround, which is needed for stable tree, and > the other fixes won't work without patch 1. > > However, we may revert patch 1 for 5.1 in which multi-page bvec > is supported. Lets do it another way around - put the proper fix into 5.1-rc and only apply patch 1 for stable. No need to put something in and immediately revert it.