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Date:   Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:26:14 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/33] vfs: Export rw_verify_area() for use by
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 03:45:01PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Export rw_verify_area() for so that cachefiles can use it before issuing
> call_read_iter() and call_write_iter() to effect async DIO operations
> against the cache.  This is analogous to aio_read() and aio_write().

I don't think this is the right thing to do.  Instead of calling
into ->read_iter / ->write_iter directly this should be using helpers.

What prevents you from using vfs_iocb_iter_read and
vfs_iocb_iter_write which seem the right level of abstraction for this?