[PATCH v2 05/18] mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages*() and FOLL_PIN
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at ziepe.ca
Tue Nov 5 07:31:17 AEDT 2019
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 12:09:05PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> Note for Jason: the (a) or (b) items are talking about the vfio case, which is
> one of the two call sites that now use pin_longterm_pages_remote(), and the
> other one is infiniband:
>
> drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c:646: npages = pin_longterm_pages_remote(owning_process, owning_mm,
This is a mistake, it is not a longterm pin and does not need FOLL_PIN
semantics
> Jason should weigh in on how he wants this to go, with respect to branching
> and merging, since it sounds like that will conflict with the hmm branch
I think since you don't need to change this site things should be
fine?
Jason
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