On 6/22/20 3:28 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:40 AM Boris Ostrovsky
> wrote:
>> On 6/22/20 2:52 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>>> I read the code again. I think, this check is needed to handle a scenario
>>> when
>>> lock_pages() return -ENOSPC. Better to keep this check.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:40 AM Boris Ostrovsky
wrote:
>
> On 6/22/20 2:52 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> >
> > I read the code again. I think, this check is needed to handle a scenario
> > when
> > lock_pages() return -ENOSPC. Better to keep this check. Let me post v2 of
> > this
> > RFC for a
On 6/22/20 2:52 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>
> I read the code again. I think, this check is needed to handle a scenario when
> lock_pages() return -ENOSPC. Better to keep this check. Let me post v2 of this
> RFC for a clear view.
Actually, error handling seems to be somewhat broken here. If
loc
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 1:00 PM John Hubbard wrote:
>
> On 2020-06-18 20:12, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:29 PM Boris Ostrovsky
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 6/16/20 11:14 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> >>> In 2019, we introduced pin_user_pages*() and now we are converting
> >>
> -Original Message-
> From: Boris Ostrovsky
> Sent: 17 June 2020 18:57
> To: Souptick Joarder ; jgr...@suse.com;
> sstabell...@kernel.org
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; John
> Hubbard ;
> p...@xen.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC
On 2020-06-18 20:12, Souptick Joarder wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:29 PM Boris Ostrovsky
wrote:
On 6/16/20 11:14 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
In 2019, we introduced pin_user_pages*() and now we are converting
get_user_pages*() to the new API as appropriate. [1] & [2] could
be referred for
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:29 PM Boris Ostrovsky
wrote:
>
> On 6/16/20 11:14 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > In 2019, we introduced pin_user_pages*() and now we are converting
> > get_user_pages*() to the new API as appropriate. [1] & [2] could
> > be referred for more information.
> >
> > [1] Doc
On 6/16/20 11:14 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> In 2019, we introduced pin_user_pages*() and now we are converting
> get_user_pages*() to the new API as appropriate. [1] & [2] could
> be referred for more information.
>
> [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
>
> [2] "Explicit pinning of use
