Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v12 00/22] mm/gup: prereqs to track dma-pinned pages: FOLL_PIN | From | John Hubbard <> | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2020 14:07:38 -0800 |
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On 1/7/20 2:45 PM, John Hubbard wrote: > Hi, > > The "track FOLL_PIN pages" would have been the very next patch, but it is > not included here because I'm still debugging a bug report from Leon. > Let's get all of the prerequisite work (it's been reviewed) into the tree > so that future reviews are easier. It's clear that any fixes that are > required to the tracking patch, won't affect these patches here. > > This implements an API naming change (put_user_page*() --> > unpin_user_page*()), and also adds FOLL_PIN page support, up to > *but not including* actually tracking FOLL_PIN pages. It extends > the FOLL_PIN support to a few select subsystems. More subsystems will > be added in follow up work. >
Hi Andrew and all,
To clarify: I'm hoping that this series can go into 5.6.
Meanwhile, I'm working on tracking down and solving the problem that Leon reported, in the "track FOLL_PIN pages" patch, and that patch is not part of this series.
thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA
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