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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] use pinned_vm instead of locked_vm to account pinned pages
    On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > This series converts users that account pinned pages with locked_vm to
    > account with pinned_vm instead, pinned_vm being the correct counter to
    > use. It's based on a similar patch I posted recently[0].
    >
    > The patches are based on rdma/for-next to build on Davidlohr Bueso's
    > recent conversion of pinned_vm to an atomic64_t[1]. Seems to make some
    > sense for these to be routed the same way, despite lack of rdma content?

    Oy.. I'd be willing to accumulate a branch with acks to send to Linus
    *separately* from RDMA to Linus, but this is very abnormal.

    Better to wait a few weeks for -rc1 and send patches through the
    subsystem trees.

    > All five of these places, and probably some of Davidlohr's conversions,
    > probably want to be collapsed into a common helper in the core mm for
    > accounting pinned pages. I tried, and there are several details that
    > likely need discussion, so this can be done as a follow-on.

    I've wondered the same..

    Jason

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