[RFC PATCH 01/14] fs/proc/vmcore: Update read_from_oldmem() for user pointer

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 02:17:24PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This looks like a huge mess.  What speak against using an iov_iter
> > here?
> 
> I coincidentally made a start on this last night.  Happy to stop.

Don't stop!

> What do you think to adding a generic copy_pfn_to_iter()?  Not sure
> which APIs to use to implement it ... some architectures have weird
> requirements about which APIs can be used for what kinds of PFNs.

Hmm.  I though kmap_local_pfn(_prot) is all we need?