[dm-devel] [PATCH V6 1/4] block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Fri Jul 12 00:22:36 UTC 2019


Damien,

> To allow the SCSI subsystem scsi_execute_req() function to issue
> requests using large buffers that are better allocated with vmalloc()
> rather than kmalloc(), modify bio_map_kern() to allow passing a buffer
> allocated with vmalloc().

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>

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