Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 6 authors, 2020-12-11

Re: [PATCH] block: add bio_iov_iter_nvecs for figuring out nr_vecs

From: Ming Lei <hidden>
Date: 2020-12-02 02:12:06
Also in: linux-fsdevel

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 01:45:42PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 01:36:22PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
quoted
Yeah, that's the idea, but also wanted to verify that callers don't
free it while in use, or if that's not the case to make it conditional
by adding a flag in iov_iter.

Can anybody vow right off the bat that all callers behave well?
Yes, this will need a careful audit, I'm not too sure offhand.  For the
io_uring case which is sortof the fast path the caller won't free them
unless we allow the buffer unregistration to race with I/O.
Loop's aio usage is fine, just found fd_execute_rw_aio() isn't good.


Thanks,
Ming
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