Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm

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On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:12:18AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 30-11-17 12:01:17, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:32:42AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > Who and how many LRU pages can pin that way and how do you prevent nasty
> > > > users to DoS systems this way?
> > > 
> > > I assume this is something the RDMA community has had to contend with?
> > > I'm not an RDMA person, I'm just here to fix dax.
> > 
> > The RDMA implementation respects the mlock rlimit
> 
> OK, so then I am kind of lost in why do we need a special g-u-p variant.
> The documentation doesn't say and quite contrary it assumes that the
> caller knows what he is doing. This cannot be the right approach.

I thought it was because get_user_pages_longterm is supposed to fail
on DAX mappings?

And maybe we should think about moving the rlimit accounting into this
new function too someday?

Jason

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