From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>, "Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
"Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
"Souptick Joarder" <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
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kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] vhost, docs: convert to pin_user_pages(), new "case 5"
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 16:43:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529234309.484480-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> (raw)
Hi,
It recently became clear to me that there are some get_user_pages*()
callers that don't fit neatly into any of the four cases that are so
far listed in pin_user_pages.rst. vhost.c is one of those.
Add a Case 5 to the documentation, and refer to that when converting
vhost.c.
Thanks to Jan Kara for helping me (again) in understanding the
interaction between get_user_pages() and page writeback [1].
This is based on today's mmotm, which has a nearby patch to
pin_user_pages.rst that rewords cases 3 and 4.
Note that I have only compile-tested the vhost.c patch, although that
does also include cross-compiling for a few other arches. Any run-time
testing would be greatly appreciated.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200529070343.GL14550@quack2.suse.cz
John Hubbard (2):
docs: mm/gup: pin_user_pages.rst: add a "case 5"
vhost: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++---
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--
2.26.2
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-29 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-29 23:43 John Hubbard [this message]
2020-05-29 23:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] docs: mm/gup: pin_user_pages.rst: add a "case 5" John Hubbard
2020-05-31 7:11 ` Souptick Joarder
2020-06-01 5:11 ` John Hubbard
2020-06-12 19:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-12 20:03 ` John Hubbard
2020-05-29 23:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] vhost: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages() John Hubbard
2020-06-01 11:30 ` Jan Kara
2020-06-02 4:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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