[PATCH 00/34] put_user_pages(): miscellaneous call sites

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Fri Aug 9 08:43:34 UTC 2019


On Thu 08-08-19 16:25:04, Weiny, Ira wrote:
> > I thought I'd caught things early enough to get away with the
> > rename and deletion of that. You could either:
> > 
> > a) open code an implementation of vaddr_put_pages_dirty_lock() that
> > doesn't call any of the *put_user_pages_dirty*() variants, or
> > 
> > b) include my first patch ("") are part of your series, or
> > 
> > c) base this on Andrews's tree, which already has merged in my first patch.
> > 
> 
> Yep I can do this.  I did not realize that Andrew had accepted any of
> this work.  I'll check out his tree.  But I don't think he is going to
> accept this series through his tree.  So what is the ETA on that landing
> in Linus' tree?
> 
> To that point I'm still not sure who would take all this as I am now
> touching mm, procfs, rdma, ext4, and xfs.

MM tree would be one candidate for routing but there are other options that
would make sense as well - Dan's tree, VFS tree, or even I can pickup the
patches to my tree if needed. But let's worry about the routing after we
have working and reviewed patches...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR


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