[PATCH v8 1/9] iomap: stash iomap read ctx in the private field of iomap_iter

[Gao Xiang]

On 2025/11/14 17:55, Hongbo Li wrote:
> It's useful to get filesystem-specific information using the
> existing private field in the @iomap_iter passed to iomap_{begin,end}
> for advanced usage for iomap buffered reads, which is much like the
> current iomap DIO.
> 
> For example, EROFS needs it to:
> 
>   - implement an efficient page cache sharing feature, since iomap
>     needs to apply to anon inode page cache but we'd like to get the
>     backing inode/fs instead, so filesystem-specific private data is
>     needed to keep such information;
> 
>   - pass in both struct page * and void * for inline data to avoid
>     kmap_to_page() usage (which is bogus).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22 at huawei.com>

LGTM, and I think the case 2) is useful even without
the main feature:

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang