Re: [PATCH] s390 hypfs fixes for 2.6.18-rc1-mm1

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 10:29:18 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:17:53 -0700
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+static ssize_t hypfs_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t offset)
{
char *data;
size_t len;
struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
+ /* XXX: temporary */
+ char __user *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+ size_t count = iov[0].iov_len;
+
+ if (nr_segs != 1) {
+ count = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }

err, "temporary" things tend to become permanent. What's the real fix?
I am not sure, if we really need to vectorize this method or not - meaning will this be ever called
with more than one items in the vector.

Micheal, is it possible ? Can some one directly use AIO interface on hypfs ? If not, we can always
look at only first element and ignore rest of them. Otherwise, we need to iterate on all the elements
of the vector.

Thanks,
Badari


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