Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 01:22:11PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:

> The only way that breaks is if longterm pins imply an irreversible action, such
> as blocking and waiting in a way that you can't back out of or get interrupted
> out of. And the design doesn't seem to be going in that direction, right?

RDMA, vfio, etc will always have 'long term' pins that are
irreversible on demand. It is part of the HW capability.

I think the flag is badly named, it is really more of a
GUP_LOCK_PHYSICAL_ADDRESSES flag.

ie indicate to the FS that is should not attempt to remap physical
memory addresses backing this VMA. If the FS can't do that it must
fail.

Short term GUP doesn't need that kind of lock.

Jason