get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX
get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX
Posted May 8, 2019 16:35 UTC (Wed) by jgg (subscriber, #55211)In reply to: get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX by djbw
Parent article: get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX
You can't implement leases at the FS layer alone - there is no way to implement a generic 'revoke' that is guaranteed to trigger the kernel to release the GUP. Ira should understand this problem well now.
This was mentioned during the session, but was also shouted down as 'broken'.
