linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/1] net/rds: Track user mapped pages through special API

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Date:   Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:03:54 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
        Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@...cle.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <rds-devel@....oracle.com>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] net/rds: Track user mapped pages through special API

Hi Andrew and all,

Here's another gup-to-pup (get_user_pages() to pin_user_pages())
conversion patch, this time from Leon Romanovsky, that we agreed is
better suited for the linux-mm tree than for linux-rdma. And it also
couldn't be merged until now (5.6-rc1) because it relies on stuff from
a few different git trees.

(Leon: I added my standard blurb about "this changes set_page_dirty() to
set_page_dirty_lock()", to the commit description.)

I've reviewed this, and done some basic checks (cross-compiles, and
a subset of an LTP run on x86), but I have not personally done directed
tests that would provide coverage of this change.

For that, could we please get some Tested-by tags, and any other tags
(reviews, acks) from those of you who have reportedly tested this? That
would be Hans or Santosh (on Cc below), I'm told:

Cc: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@...cle.com>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>

Leon Romanovsky (1):
  net/rds: Track user mapped pages through special API

 net/rds/rdma.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

base-commit: 359c92c02bfae1a6f1e8e37c298e518fd256642c
-- 
2.25.0