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The static helper routine, __qib_get_user_pages(), accepts a vma arg,
but current use always passes NULL.
This has caused some confusion associated with the correct use of this
argument, but since the current use case doesn't require the
flexiblity, the best thing to do is to simplfy the code to always pass
NULL to get_user_pages().
Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
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Some kernel components pin user space memory (infiniband and perf) (by
increasing the page count) and account that memory as "mlocked".
The difference between mlocking and pinning is:
A. mlocked pages are marked with PG_mlocked and are exempt from
swapping. Page migration may move them around though.
They are kept on a special LRU list.
B. Pinned pages cannot be moved because something needs to
directly access physical memory. They may not be on any
LRU list.
I recently saw an mlockalled process where mm->locked_vm became
bigger than the virtual size of the process (!) because some
memory was accounted for twice:
Once when the page was mlocked and once when the Infiniband
layer increased the refcount because it needt to pin the RDMA
memory.
This patch introduces a separate counter for pinned pages and
accounts them seperately.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
Cc: Sean Hefty <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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In most cases, get_user_pages and get_user_pages_fast should be used
to pin user pages in memory. But sometimes, some special flags except
FOLL_GET, FOLL_WRITE and FOLL_FORCE are needed, for example in
following patch, KVM needs FOLL_HWPOISON. To support these users,
__get_user_pages is exported directly.
There are some symbol name conflicts in infiniband driver, fixed them too.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
CC: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
CC: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
CC: Ralph Campbell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
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Add a low-level IB driver for QLogic PCIe adapters.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
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