linux.git/include/linux/bvec.h, branch v6.18.21 Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git block: update comment of "struct bio_vec" regarding nth_page() 2025-09-21T21:22:09+00:00 David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com 2025-09-01T15:03:57+00:00 d5170ce4d71b3843613ee1840bca50ad71c3671e Ever since commit 858c708d9efb ("block: move the bi_size update out of __bio_try_merge_page"), page_is_mergeable() no longer exists, and the logic in bvec_try_merge_page() is now a simple page pointer comparison. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-37-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Ever since commit 858c708d9efb ("block: move the bi_size update out of
__bio_try_merge_page"), page_is_mergeable() no longer exists, and the
logic in bvec_try_merge_page() is now a simple page pointer comparison.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-37-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
block: Fix bvec_set_folio() for very large folios 2025-06-13T12:20:17+00:00 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org 2025-06-12T14:42:53+00:00 5e223e06ee7c6d8f630041a0645ac90e39a42cc6 Similarly to 26064d3e2b4d ("block: fix adding folio to bio"), if we attempt to add a folio that is larger than 4GB, we'll silently truncate the offset and len. Widen the parameters to size_t, assert that the length is less than 4GB and set the first page that contains the interesting data rather than the first page of the folio. Fixes: 26db5ee15851 (block: add a bvec_set_folio helper) Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612144255.2850278-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Similarly to 26064d3e2b4d ("block: fix adding folio to bio"), if
we attempt to add a folio that is larger than 4GB, we'll silently
truncate the offset and len.  Widen the parameters to size_t, assert
that the length is less than 4GB and set the first page that contains
the interesting data rather than the first page of the folio.

Fixes: 26db5ee15851 (block: add a bvec_set_folio helper)
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612144255.2850278-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: add for_each_mp_bvec() 2025-04-02T13:06:59+00:00 Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com 2025-03-25T13:51:51+00:00 149974fdb8e186a1c72b87cee806373624a8a375 Add helper of for_each_mp_bvec() for io_uring to import fixed kernel buffer. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250325135155.935398-3-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Add helper of for_each_mp_bvec() for io_uring to import fixed kernel
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250325135155.935398-3-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: use page_to_phys in bvec_phys 2025-01-06T14:36:39+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2025-01-06T08:14:37+00:00 2caca8fc7aad9ea9a6ea3ed26ed146b1e5f06fab Use page_to_phys instead of open coding it now that it is available in an architecture independent way. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250106081437.798213-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Use page_to_phys instead of open coding it now that it is available in an
architecture independent way.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250106081437.798213-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: add a bvec_phys helper 2024-07-08T07:51:05+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2024-07-06T07:52:17+00:00 25f76c3db2f08428b5acd082a52787164001eb6e Get callers out of poking into bvec internals a bit more. Not a huge win right now, but with the proposed new DMA mapping API we might end up with a lot more of this otherwise. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240706075228.2350978-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Get callers out of poking into bvec internals a bit more.  Not a huge win
right now, but with the proposed new DMA mapping API we might end up with
a lot more of this otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240706075228.2350978-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: define bvec_iter as __packed __aligned(4) 2024-03-02T17:15:01+00:00 Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com 2024-02-25T03:01:41+00:00 7838b4656110d950afdd92a081cc0f33e23e0ea8 In commit 19416123ab3e ("block: define 'struct bvec_iter' as packed"), what we need is to save the 4byte padding, and avoid `bio` to spread on one extra cache line. It is enough to define it as '__packed __aligned(4)', as '__packed' alone means byte aligned, and can cause compiler to generate horrible code on architectures that don't support unaligned access in case that bvec_iter is embedded in other structures. Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Fixes: 19416123ab3e ("block: define 'struct bvec_iter' as packed") Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
In commit 19416123ab3e ("block: define 'struct bvec_iter' as packed"),
what we need is to save the 4byte padding, and avoid `bio` to spread on
one extra cache line.

It is enough to define it as '__packed __aligned(4)', as '__packed'
alone means byte aligned, and can cause compiler to generate horrible
code on architectures that don't support unaligned access in case that
bvec_iter is embedded in other structures.

Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 19416123ab3e ("block: define 'struct bvec_iter' as packed")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
block: add a bvec_set_virt helper 2023-02-03T15:20:55+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2023-02-03T15:06:14+00:00 666e6550cb74e3a7206b5699409c9f31e123887e A small wrapper around bvec_set_page for callers that have a virtual address. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150634.3199647-4-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
A small wrapper around bvec_set_page for callers that have a virtual
address.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150634.3199647-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: add a bvec_set_folio helper 2023-02-03T15:20:55+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2023-02-03T15:06:13+00:00 26db5ee158510108c819aa7be6eb8c75accf85d7 A smaller wrapper around bvec_set_page that takes a folio instead. There are only two potential users for this in the tree, but the number will grow in the future. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150634.3199647-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
A smaller wrapper around bvec_set_page that takes a folio instead.
There are only two potential users for this in the tree, but the number
will grow in the future.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150634.3199647-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: factor out a bvec_set_page helper 2023-02-03T15:20:54+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2023-02-03T15:06:12+00:00 d58cdfae6a22e5079656c487aad669597a0635c8 Add a helper to initialize a bvec based of a page pointer. This will help removing various open code bvec initializations. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150634.3199647-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Add a helper to initialize a bvec based of a page pointer.  This will help
removing various open code bvec initializations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150634.3199647-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: Remove mm.h from bvec.h 2023-01-31T16:21:50+00:00 Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org 2023-01-31T05:01:32+00:00 2d97930d74b12467fd5f48d8560e48c1cf5edcb1 This was originally added for the definition of nth_page(), but we no longer use nth_page() in this header, so we can drop the heavyweight mm.h now. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230131050132.2627124-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
This was originally added for the definition of nth_page(), but we no
longer use nth_page() in this header, so we can drop the heavyweight
mm.h now.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230131050132.2627124-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>