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Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:53:33 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To:     Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
        Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] convert read_kcore(), vread() to use iterators
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On 03/23/23 at 10:15am, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> While reviewing Baoquan's recent changes to permit vread() access to
> vm_map_ram regions of vmalloc allocations, Willy pointed out [1] that it
> would be nice to refactor vread() as a whole, since its only user is
> read_kcore() and the existing form of vread() necessitates the use of a
> bounce buffer.
> 
> This patch series does exactly that, as well as adjusting how we read the
> kernel text section to avoid the use of a bounce buffer in this case as
> well.
> 
> This has been tested against the test case which motivated Baoquan's
> changes in the first place [2] which continues to function correctly, as do
> the vmalloc self tests.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y8WfDSRkc%2FOHP3oD@casper.infradead.org/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ilk6gos2.fsf@oracle.com/T/#u

The whole series looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>