Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 01/21] iov_iter: Introduce new procedures for copy to iter/pages

On 03/02/2021 21:34, Ira Weiny wrote:

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 05:56:21PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 08:00:51PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:

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will look into this, any idea for a more suitable location?

Maybe just a new file under lib/ for now?

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Overly long line.  But we're also looking into generic helpers for
this kind of things, not sure if they made it to linux-next in the
meantime, but please check.

This is what I found in linux-next - note sure if you were referring to it

commit 11432a3cc061c39475295be533c3674c4f8a6d0b
Author: David Howells [off-list ref]

    iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY

No, that's not it.  Ira, what is the status of the memcpy_{to,from}_page
helpers?

Converting the entire kernel tree in one series has become unwieldy so I've
given up.

But I have a series to convert btrfs which I could release by the end of the
week.  That should be good enough to push the memcpy_*_page() support in.

I'm get it formatted and submitted,
Ira

To conclude this discussion, there's nothing that we need to change here
as the relevant series is still WIP, right?