On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:37:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 19-07-18 18:21:23, Ming Lei wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:39:18AM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote: > > > bio_iov_iter_get_pages() returns only pages for a single non-empty > > > segment of the input iov_iter's iovec. This may be much less than the > > > number > > > of pages __blkdev_direct_IO_simple() is supposed to process. Call > > > > In bio_iov_iter_get_pages(), iov_iter_get_pages() supposes to retrieve > > as many as possible pages since both 'maxsize' and 'maxpages' are provided > > to cover all.
Huh? Why does having a way to say "I (the caller) don't want more than <amount>" implies anything of that sort? It never had been promised, explicitly or not... > > So the question is why iov_iter_get_pages() doesn't work as expected? > > Well, there has never been a promise that it will grab *all* pages in the > iter AFAIK. Practically, I think that it was just too hairy to implement in > the macro magic that iter processing is... Al might know more (added to > CC). Not really - it's more that VM has every right to refuse letting you pin an arbitrary amount of pages anyway.
