[PATCH 2/2] fs/aio.c: use get_user_pages_non_movable() to pin ring pages when support memory hotremove

From: Lin Feng
Date: Mon Feb 04 2013 - 05:05:50 EST


This patch gets around the aio ring pages can't be migrated bug caused by
get_user_pages() via using the new function. It only works as configed with
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE, otherwise it uses the old version of get_user_pages().

Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 71f613c..0e9b30a 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -138,9 +138,15 @@ static int aio_setup_ring(struct kioctx *ctx)
}

dprintk("mmap address: 0x%08lx\n", info->mmap_base);
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+ info->nr_pages = get_user_pages_non_movable(current, ctx->mm,
+ info->mmap_base, nr_pages,
+ 1, 0, info->ring_pages, NULL);
+#else
info->nr_pages = get_user_pages(current, ctx->mm,
info->mmap_base, nr_pages,
1, 0, info->ring_pages, NULL);
+#endif
up_write(&ctx->mm->mmap_sem);

if (unlikely(info->nr_pages != nr_pages)) {
--
1.7.11.7

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