Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 2021 16:37:55 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] bvec/iter: disallow zero-length segment bvecs |
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On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 03:17:34PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst > @@ -865,3 +865,10 @@ no matter what. Everything is handled by the caller. > > clone_private_mount() returns a longterm mount now, so the proper destructor of > its result is kern_unmount() or kern_unmount_array(). > + > +--- > + > +**mandatory** > + > +zero-length bvec segments are disallowed, they must be filtered out before > +passed on to an iterator.
Why are you putting this in filesystems/porting? Filesystems don't usually generate bvecs ... there's nothing in this current series that stops them. I'd suggest Documentation/block/biovecs.rst or biodoc.rst (and frankly, biodoc.rst needs a good cleanup)
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