Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] kaddr and pfn can be NULL to ->direct_access()

From: Dave Jiang
Date: Wed Jul 25 2018 - 17:35:59 EST


Pretty straight forward series. Huaisheng, I can apply the whole series
to libnvdimm if we can get ack's from maintainer of dcssblk and
dm-writecache for the respective bits.

On 07/25/2018 09:28 AM, Huaisheng Ye wrote:
> From: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Changes since v1 [1]:
> * Involve the previous patches for pfn can be NULL.
> * Reword the patch descriptions according to Christian's comment.
> * According to Ross's suggestion, replace local pointer dummy_addr
> with NULL within md/dm-writecache for direct_access.
>
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/24/199
>
> Some functions within fs/dax, dax/super and md/dm-writecache don't
> need to get local pointer kaddr or variable pfn from direct_access.
> Assigning NULL to kaddr or pfn to ->direct_access() is more
> straightforward and simple than offering a useless local pointer or
> variable.
>
> So all ->direct_access() need to check the validity of pointer kaddr
> and pfn for NULL assignment. If either of them is equal to NULL, that
> is to say callers may have no need for kaddr or pfn, so this series of
> patch are prepared for allowing them to pass in NULL instead of having
> to pass in a local pointer or variable that they then just throw away.
>
> Huaisheng Ye (6):
> libnvdimm, pmem: kaddr and pfn can be NULL to ->direct_access()
> s390, dcssblk: kaddr and pfn can be NULL to ->direct_access()
> tools/testing/nvdimm: kaddr and pfn can be NULL to ->direct_access()
> dax/super: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required
> md/dm-writecache: Don't request pointer dummy_addr when not required
> filesystem-dax: Do not request kaddr and pfn when not required
>
> drivers/dax/super.c | 3 +--
> drivers/md/dm-writecache.c | 3 +--
> drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 7 +++++--
> drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c | 8 +++++---
> fs/dax.c | 13 ++++---------
> tools/testing/nvdimm/pmem-dax.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 6 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>