> I ended up working on this a bit today, and managed to cobble together > something that somewhat works -- please see the patch below. Just some quick observations: > + ctx->ctx_file = anon_inode_getfile("[aio]", &aio_ctx_fops, ctx, O_RDWR); > + if (IS_ERR(ctx->ctx_file)) { > + ctx->ctx_file = NULL; > + return -EAGAIN; > + } It's too bad that aio contexts will now be accounted against the filp limits (get_empty_filp -> files_stat.max_files, etc). > + for (i=0; i<nr_pages; i++) { > + struct page *page; > + void *ptr; > + page = find_or_create_page(ctx->ctx_file->f_inode->i_mapping, > + i, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!page) { > + break; > + } > + ptr = kmap(page); > + clear_page(ptr); > + kunmap(page); > + SetPageUptodate(page); > + SetPageDirty(page); > + unlock_page(page); > + } If they're GFP_KERNEL then you don't need to kmap them. But we probably want to allocate with GFP_HIGHUSER and then use clear_user_highpage() to zero them? - z -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>