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SubjectRe: [PATCH] btrfs: fix allocation of bitmap pages.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 01:06:25PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > The whole point of copy_page is to copy exactly one page and it makes
> > sense to assume that is aligned. A sane memcpy would use the same
> > underlying primitives as well after checking they fit. So I think the
> > prime issue here is btrfs' use of copy_page instead of memcpy. The
> > secondary issue is slub fucking up alignments for no good reason. We
> > just got bitten by that crap again in XFS as well :(
>
> Meh, I should finally get back to https://lwn.net/Articles/787740/ right

Yes. For now Dave came up with an idea for a workaround that will
be forward-compatible with that:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg30521.html

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