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author | 2012-07-31 16:44:51 -0700 | |
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committer | 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -0700 | |
commit | 18022c5d8627a7a9ba8097a0f238b513fae6f5b8 (patch) | |
tree | 57e0d0ec6a5369c56bd00957eb9c0e1220e62917 /mm | |
parent | mm: methods for teaching filesystems about PG_swapcache pages (diff) | |
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mm: add get_kernel_page[s] for pinning of kernel addresses for I/O
This patch adds two new APIs get_kernel_pages() and get_kernel_page() that
may be used to pin a vector of kernel addresses for IO. The initial user
is expected to be NFS for allowing pages to be written to swap using
aops->direct_IO(). Strictly speaking, swap-over-NFS only needs to pin one
page for IO but it makes sense to express the API in terms of a vector and
add a helper for pinning single pages.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/swap.c | 53 |
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index 4e7e2ec67078..7d7f80c8044a 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -236,6 +236,59 @@ void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_pages_list); +/* + * get_kernel_pages() - pin kernel pages in memory + * @kiov: An array of struct kvec structures + * @nr_segs: number of segments to pin + * @write: pinning for read/write, currently ignored + * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned. + * Should be at least nr_segs long. + * + * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number + * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages + * were pinned, returns -errno. Each page returned must be released + * with a put_page() call when it is finished with. + */ +int get_kernel_pages(const struct kvec *kiov, int nr_segs, int write, + struct page **pages) +{ + int seg; + + for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) { + if (WARN_ON(kiov[seg].iov_len != PAGE_SIZE)) + return seg; + + /* virt_to_page sanity checks the PFN */ + pages[seg] = virt_to_page(kiov[seg].iov_base); + page_cache_get(pages[seg]); + } + + return seg; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_kernel_pages); + +/* + * get_kernel_page() - pin a kernel page in memory + * @start: starting kernel address + * @write: pinning for read/write, currently ignored + * @pages: array that receives pointer to the page pinned. + * Must be at least nr_segs long. + * + * Returns 1 if page is pinned. If the page was not pinned, returns + * -errno. The page returned must be released with a put_page() call + * when it is finished with. + */ +int get_kernel_page(unsigned long start, int write, struct page **pages) +{ + const struct kvec kiov = { + .iov_base = (void *)start, + .iov_len = PAGE_SIZE + }; + + return get_kernel_pages(&kiov, 1, write, pages); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_kernel_page); + static void pagevec_lru_move_fn(struct pagevec *pvec, void (*move_fn)(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec, void *arg), void *arg) |