On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote: > Hi, > > This series converts users that account pinned pages with locked_vm to > account with pinned_vm instead, pinned_vm being the correct counter to > use. It's based on a similar patch I posted recently[0]. > > The patches are based on rdma/for-next to build on Davidlohr Bueso's > recent conversion of pinned_vm to an atomic64_t[1]. Seems to make some > sense for these to be routed the same way, despite lack of rdma content? Oy.. I'd be willing to accumulate a branch with acks to send to Linus *separately* from RDMA to Linus, but this is very abnormal. Better to wait a few weeks for -rc1 and send patches through the subsystem trees. > All five of these places, and probably some of Davidlohr's conversions, > probably want to be collapsed into a common helper in the core mm for > accounting pinned pages. I tried, and there are several details that > likely need discussion, so this can be done as a follow-on. I've wondered the same.. Jason
