Re: [GIT PULL] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just list)

[David Howells]

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > Could you consider pulling this patchset into the block tree?  I think that
> > Al's fears wrt to pinned pages being removed from page tables causing deadlock
> > have been answered.  Granted, there is still the issue of how to handle
> > vmsplice and a bunch of other places to fix, not least skbuff handling.
> > 
> > I also have patches to fix cifs in a separate branch that I would also like to
> > push in this merge window - and that requires the first two patches from this
> > series also, so would it be possible for you to merge at least those two
> > rather than manually applying them?
> 
> I've pulled this into a separate branch, but based on the block branch,
> for-6.3/iov-extract. It's added to for-next as well.

Many thanks!

David