Re: [PATCH 0/5] use pinned_vm instead of locked_vm to account pinned pages

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series converts users that account pinned pages with locked_vm to
> account with pinned_vm instead, pinned_vm being the correct counter to
> use.  It's based on a similar patch I posted recently[0].
> 
> The patches are based on rdma/for-next to build on Davidlohr Bueso's
> recent conversion of pinned_vm to an atomic64_t[1].  Seems to make some
> sense for these to be routed the same way, despite lack of rdma content?

Oy.. I'd be willing to accumulate a branch with acks to send to Linus
*separately* from RDMA to Linus, but this is very abnormal.

Better to wait a few weeks for -rc1 and send patches through the
subsystem trees.

> All five of these places, and probably some of Davidlohr's conversions,
> probably want to be collapsed into a common helper in the core mm for
> accounting pinned pages.  I tried, and there are several details that
> likely need discussion, so this can be done as a follow-on.

I've wondered the same..

Jason