linux/include
Mel Gorman 18022c5d86 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>
2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-07-26 14:28:55 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
crypto
drm drm/exynos: add property for plane zpos 2012-07-27 11:13:54 +09:00
keys
linux mm: add get_kernel_page[s] for pinning of kernel addresses for I/O 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
math-emu
media [media] media: gpio-ir-recv: add allowed_protos for platform data 2012-07-06 18:21:53 -03:00
memory
misc
mtd
net netvm: prevent a stream-specific deadlock 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Merge branches 'cma', 'cxgb4', 'misc', 'mlx4-sriov', 'mlx-cleanups', 'ocrdma' and 'qib' into for-linus 2012-07-22 23:26:17 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'master' [vanilla Linus master] into libata-dev.git/upstream 2012-07-25 15:58:48 -04:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/pm-convert' into for-next 2012-07-19 08:21:57 +02:00
target target: Allow for target_submit_cmd() returning errors 2012-07-17 17:05:05 -07:00
trace mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves 2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
video
xen xen PVonHVM: move shared_info to MMIO before kexec 2012-07-19 15:52:05 -04:00
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