On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > And if a page is in the wrong area then it can be bounced before I/O > > is performed on it. > > I think that much is also true, but not where the problem lies. > Isn't the problem that filesystems using these block devices > expect their metadata to be accessible without kmap calls?
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