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From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 09:43:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d62615c-57d1-922b-5ebc-32faabf33327@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <166997421646.9475.14837976344157464997.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>



On 2022-12-02 02:43, David Howells wrote:
> Add a function, iov_iter_extract_pages(), to extract a list of pages from
> an iterator.  The pages may be returned with a reference added or a pin
> added or neither, depending on the type of iterator and the direction of
> transfer.
> +static ssize_t iov_iter_extract_user_pages(struct iov_iter *i,
> +					   struct page ***pages, size_t maxsize,
> +					   unsigned int maxpages,
> +					   size_t *offset0,
> +					   unsigned int *cleanup_mode)

If this is going to be a general replacement for iov_iter_get_pages()
it's going to need to pass through gup_flags. My recent patchset added
versions with these and I think it should be in during the next merge
cycle. [1]

Thanks,

Logan


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221021174116.7200-4-logang@deltatee.com/


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-06 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-02  9:43 [PATCH v3 0/4] iov_iter: Add extraction helpers David Howells
2022-12-02  9:43 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: Move FOLL_* defs to mm_types.h David Howells
2022-12-02  9:43 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator David Howells
2022-12-06 16:43   ` Logan Gunthorpe [this message]
2022-12-06 18:35   ` David Howells
2022-12-06 18:40     ` Logan Gunthorpe

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