[PATCH v7 0/6] mm/gup: Introduce memfd_pin_folios() for pinning memfd folios (v7)
David Hildenbrand
david at redhat.com
Tue Dec 12 12:15:21 UTC 2023
On 12.12.23 08:37, Vivek Kasireddy wrote:
> The first two patches were previously reviewed but not yet merged.
> These ones need to be merged first as the fourth patch depends on
> the changes introduced in them and they also fix bugs seen in
> very specific scenarios (running Qemu with hugetlb=on, blob=true
> and rebooting guest VM).
>
> The third patch introduces memfd_pin_folios() API and the fourth
> patch converts udmabuf driver to use folios. The fifth patch shows
> how the udmabuf driver can make use of the new API to longterm-pin
> the folios. The last patch adds two new udmabuf selftests to verify
> data coherency after potential page migration.
>
We should probably get started with the first two patches, they are
independent of the remaining discussion regarding memfd_pin_folios().
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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