Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned

Jann Horn
2020-09-21T21:44:08Z

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:17 PM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> (Commit message collected from Jason Gunthorpe)
>
> Reduce the chance of false positive from page_maybe_dma_pinned() by keeping
> track if the mm_struct has ever been used with pin_user_pages(). mm_structs
> that have never been passed to pin_user_pages() cannot have a positive
> page_maybe_dma_pinned() by definition.

There are some caveats here, right? E.g. this isn't necessarily true
for pagecache pages, I think?