Re: [GIT PULL] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just list)

David Howells
2023-01-30T21:52:55Z

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:

> > Hi Jens,
> >
> > Could you consider pulling this patchset into the block tree? I think that
> > Al's fears wrt to pinned pages being removed from page tables causing deadlock
> > have been answered. Granted, there is still the issue of how to handle
> > vmsplice and a bunch of other places to fix, not least skbuff handling.
> >
> > I also have patches to fix cifs in a separate branch that I would also like to
> > push in this merge window - and that requires the first two patches from this
> > series also, so would it be possible for you to merge at least those two
> > rather than manually applying them?
>
> I've pulled this into a separate branch, but based on the block branch,
> for-6.3/iov-extract. It's added to for-next as well.

Many thanks!

David