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Damien Le Moal
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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(). To do so, detect vmalloc-ed buffers using is_vmalloc_addr(). For vmalloc-ed buffers, flush the buffer using flush_kernel_vmap_range(), use vmalloc_to_page() instead of virt_to_page() to obtain the pages of the buffer, and invalidate the buffer addresses with invalidate_kernel_vmap_range() on completion of read BIOs. This last point is executed using the function bio_invalidate_vmalloc_pages() which is defined only if the architecture defines ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_KERNEL_DCACHE_PAGE, that is, if the architecture actually needs the invalidation done. Fixes:515ce60613("scsi: sd_zbc: Fix sd_zbc_report_zones() buffer allocation") Fixes:e76239a374("block: add a report_zones method") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.