linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just list)

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Message-ID: <3519101.1675115561@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:52:41 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just list)

Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:

> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > Could you consider pulling this patchset into the block tree?  I think that
> > Al's fears wrt to pinned pages being removed from page tables causing deadlock
> > have been answered.  Granted, there is still the issue of how to handle
> > vmsplice and a bunch of other places to fix, not least skbuff handling.
> > 
> > I also have patches to fix cifs in a separate branch that I would also like to
> > push in this merge window - and that requires the first two patches from this
> > series also, so would it be possible for you to merge at least those two
> > rather than manually applying them?
> 
> I've pulled this into a separate branch, but based on the block branch,
> for-6.3/iov-extract. It's added to for-next as well.

Many thanks!

David