On 03/02/2021 21:34, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 05:56:21PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 08:00:51PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>>> will look into this, any idea for a more suitable location?
>>
>> Maybe just a new file under lib/ for now?
>>
>>>> Overly long line. But we're also looking into generic helpers for
>>>> this kind of things, not sure if they made it to linux-next in the
>>>> meantime, but please check.
>>>
>>> This is what I found in linux-next - note sure if you were referring to it
>>>
>>> commit 11432a3cc061c39475295be533c3674c4f8a6d0b
>>> Author: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY
>>
>> No, that's not it. Ira, what is the status of the memcpy_{to,from}_page
>> helpers?
>
> Converting the entire kernel tree in one series has become unwieldy so I've
> given up.
>
> But I have a series to convert btrfs which I could release by the end of the
> week. That should be good enough to push the memcpy_*_page() support in.
>
> I'm get it formatted and submitted,
> Ira
>
To conclude this discussion, there's nothing that we need to change here
as the relevant series is still WIP, right?
