Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:11:44 -0400 | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/12] mm: Add get_kernel_page[s] for pinning of kernel addresses for I/O |
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On 06/20/2012 05:37 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch adds two new APIs get_kernel_pages() and get_kernel_page() > that may be used to pin a vector of kernel addresses for IO. The initial > user is expected to be NFS for allowing pages to be written to swap > using aops->direct_IO(). Strictly speaking, swap-over-NFS only needs > to pin one page for IO but it makes sense to express the API in terms > of a vector and add a helper for pinning single pages. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
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