Re: [PATCH v9 04/26] Add a function to kmap one page of a multipage bio_vec
From: David Howells
Date: Mon Aug 10 2026 - 16:35:13 EST
Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 03:47:21PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Add a function to kmap one page of a multipage bio_vec by offset (which is
> > added to the offset in the bio_vec internally). The caller is responsible
> > for calculating how much of the page is then available.
>
> I think this should be kmap_local_bvec(). Living in bvec.h makes sense,
> but keeping it in the kmap_local_ namespace is better than putting it in
> the bvec_ namespace.
Christoph disagrees with you:-/
David