RE: [PATCH] iov_iter: streamline iovec/bvec alignment iteration

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Jens Axboe
> Sent: 23 January 2024 19:49
> 
> Rewrite iov_iter_aligned_iovec() and iov_iter_aligned_bvec() to be both
> easier to read, and also significantly more compact in terms of
> generated code. This saves 178 bytes of text on x86-64 for me (with
> clang-18) and 136 bytes on arm64 (with gcc-13).
> 
...
> diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
> index e0aa6b440ca5..2fcc47d822e3 100644
> --- a/lib/iov_iter.c
> +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
> @@ -714,12 +714,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_discard);
...
> -	for (k = 0; k < i->nr_segs; k++, skip = 0) {
> -		const struct iovec *iov = iter_iov(i) + k;
> +	do {
>  		size_t len = iov->iov_len - skip;

Is i->nr_segs allowed to be zero?
The old code (seemed to) check for zero.
The new version will go horribly wrong.

	David

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