Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:13:26 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: running get_user_pages() from kernel thread |
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:05:27PM +0300, Izik Eidus wrote: > So the question is: is this thing is by desgin? (that kernel thread cant > call get_user_pages???), should i use something like switch_mm()??
I think switch_mm trick should be used for page faults, but gup shouldn't require it because it gets the 'mm' as parameter and the current->mm has to be irrelevant. current->mm is only relevant for gup-fast (obviously :). So I think the only bit that needs fixing is grab_swap_token to not run if current->mm is null.
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