[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Thu Jul 1 21:52:11 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 2:41 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So what the direct-IO code _should_ do is to turn an ITER_IOVEC into a
> ITER_KVEC by doing the page lookup ahead of time

Actually, an ITER_BVEC, not ITER_KVEC. It wants a page array, not a
kernel pointer array.

But I hope people understood what I meant..

             Linus




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