Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver

["Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 17:23 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> You're safe to drop the VM_SHM everywhere.  But your backport driver will
> have to be using PageReserved still, not relying on __GFP_COMP: although
> __GFP_COMP was defined in 2.6.9 and a few earlier, it used to take effect
> only when #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE - only in 2.6.15 did we make it
> available to all configurations.  You'll have irritating accounting
> differences between the two drivers: it used to be the case that put_page
> on a PageReserved page did nothing, so you had to avoid get_page on it to
> get the page accounting right; we straightened that out in 2.6.15.

OK, that's very helpful to know, thanks.

> So, if your driver allows userspace to pin an otherwise unlimited
> number of user pages for an indefinite length of time, you ought
> to follow uverbs_mem.c's locked_vm accounting.

This is exactly the case, and we are in fact aping uverbs_mem.c quite
carefully :-)

> And I'll have confused you by mentioning that under VM_LOCKED:
> I was thinking uverbs_mem.c set VM_LOCKED, but it does not, nor
> should it.

OK, thanks.

	<b

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