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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] Documentation/vm: add pin_user_pages.rst
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:48:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f92713c-7df8-9463-93f2-40967eba27b5@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191031234922.GM14771@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>

On 10/31/19 4:49 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 03:49:30PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
...
>> +TODO: There is also a special case when the pages are DAX pages: in addition to
>> +the above flags, the caller needs something like a layout lease on the
>> +associated file. This is yet to be implemented. When it is implemented, it's
>> +expected that the lease will be a prerequisite to setting FOLL_LONGTERM.
> 
> For now we probably want to leave this note out until we figure out how this is
> going to work.  Best to say something like:
> 
> Some pages, such as DAX pages, can't be pinned with longterm pins and will
> fail.
> 

OK, I have this wording queued up for the v2 patch:

NOTE: Some pages, such as DAX pages, cannot be pinned with longterm pins. That's
because DAX pages do not have a separate page cache, and so "pinning" implies
locking down file system blocks, which is not (yet) supported in that way.


thanks,

John Hubbard
NVIDIA

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-30 22:49 [PATCH 00/19] mm/gup: track dma-pinned pages: FOLL_PIN, FOLL_LONGTERM John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 01/19] mm/gup: pass flags arg to __gup_device_* functions John Hubbard
2019-10-31 18:18   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 02/19] mm/gup: factor out duplicate code from four routines John Hubbard
2019-10-31 18:35   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-31 18:43     ` John Hubbard
2019-10-31 21:09       ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-31 22:01         ` John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 03/19] goldish_pipe: rename local pin_user_pages() routine John Hubbard
2019-10-31 18:36   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 04/19] media/v4l2-core: set pages dirty upon releasing DMA buffers John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 05/19] mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages*() and FOLL_PIN John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:15   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-31 23:43     ` John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 06/19] goldish_pipe: convert to pin_user_pages() and put_user_page() John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 07/19] infiniband: set FOLL_PIN, FOLL_LONGTERM via pin_longterm_pages*() John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:25   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-31 23:49     ` John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 08/19] mm/process_vm_access: set FOLL_PIN via pin_user_pages_remote() John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:35   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-31 23:46     ` John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 09/19] drm/via: set FOLL_PIN via pin_user_pages_fast() John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:36   ` Ira Weiny
2019-11-04 18:10     ` Daniel Vetter
2019-11-04 19:20       ` John Hubbard
2019-11-05  9:49         ` Daniel Vetter
2019-11-05 18:16           ` John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 10/19] fs/io_uring: set FOLL_PIN via pin_user_pages() John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:37   ` Ira Weiny
2019-11-01 14:49   ` Jens Axboe
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 11/19] net/xdp: " John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:37   ` Ira Weiny
2019-11-02 11:01   ` Björn Töpel
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 12/19] mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 13/19] media/v4l2-core: pin_longterm_pages (FOLL_PIN) and put_user_page() conversion John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:38   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 14/19] vfio, mm: " John Hubbard
2019-10-30 23:05   ` John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 15/19] powerpc: book3s64: convert to pin_longterm_pages() and put_user_page() John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 16/19] mm/gup_benchmark: support pin_user_pages() and related calls John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 17/19] selftests/vm: run_vmtests: invoke gup_benchmark with basic FOLL_PIN coverage John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 18/19] mm/gup: remove support for gup(FOLL_LONGTERM) John Hubbard
2019-10-30 22:49 ` [PATCH 19/19] Documentation/vm: add pin_user_pages.rst John Hubbard
2019-10-31 23:49   ` Ira Weiny
2019-10-31 23:53     ` John Hubbard
2019-11-01  0:48     ` John Hubbard [this message]
2019-11-03 19:53   ` John Hubbard

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