linux-kernel - Re: Is get_user_pages() enough to prevent pages from being swapped out ?

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:48:56 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
cc:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...net.be>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	v4l2_linux <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is get_user_pages() enough to prevent pages from being swapped
 out ?

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Robin Holt wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 29 July 2009 17:26:11 Hugh Dickins wrote:
> ...
> > > > On the other hand, despite the raised reference count, under memory
> > > > pressure that page might get unmapped from the user pagetable, and
> > > > might even be written out to swap in its half-dirty state (though
> 
> One thing you did not mention in the above description is that the page
> is marked clean by the write-out to swap.  I am not sure I recall the
> method of mapping involved here, but it is necessary to ensure the page
> is marked dirty again before the driver releases it.  If the page is
> not marked dirty as part of your method of releasing it, the changes
> you have made between when the page was first written out and when you
> are freeing it will get lost.

Yes indeed: thanks, Robin.

Hugh
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