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

Jens Axboe
2023-01-30T21:33:36Z

On 1/30/23 4:14 AM, David Howells 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.

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Jens Axboe