On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 1:30 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:39:14PM -0500, Pavel Tatashin wrote: > > Zero page should not be used for long term pinned pages. Once pages > > are pinned their physical addresses cannot changed until they are unpinned. > > > > Guarantee to always return real pages when they are pinned by adding > > FOLL_WRITE. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > mm/gup.c | 10 +++++++++- > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > No, this will definitely break things What will break > > Why does the zero page have to be movable? It is not even about being movable, we can't cow pinned pages returned by GUP call, how can we use zero page for that? > > Jason
