Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] lib/scatterlist: use page iterator in the mappingiterator

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Sat Feb 23 2013 - 18:45:26 EST


On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:04:06 +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 21:29 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 02/13/2013 08:10 AM, Imre Deak wrote:
>>> For better code reuse use the newly added page iterator to iterate
>>> through the pages. The offset, length within the page is still
>>> calculated by the mapping iterator as well as the actual mapping.
>>> Idea from Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>.
>>
>> This patch appears in linux-next since next-20130220. It breaks mounting
>> a root filesystem on an SD card on the Raspberry Pi ARM platform, with
>> errors such as those shown below.
>>
>> next-20130222 with just this patch reverted works fine.
>
> ...
> the following might fix the
> problem you saw. Could you give it a try? It applies on top of
> v4 of the patch [1]:

Yes, thanks very much. That incremental patch you gave solves the
problem perfectly.
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