Re: [PATCH -v3] ext4: don't BUG if kernel subsystems dirty pages without asking ext4 first

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 08:40:36PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Well, that makes it process_vm_writev()'s is that it needs to know
> when to call pin_user_file_pages().

Sorry, typed too fast.  What I was trying to say is this make it
process_vm_writev()'s problem to figure out when it should call
pin_user_file_pages() versus some other pin_user_pages function.

> I suspect that for many use cases
> --- for example, if this is being used by a debugger to modify a
> variable on a stack, or an anonymous page in the program's data
> segment, process_vm_writev() *isn't* actually pinning a file.  So they
> want some kind of interface that automatically DTRT regardless of
> whether the user pages being edited are file-backed or not
> file-backed.

					- Ted