From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
urezki@gmail.com, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Introduce vmap_file()
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:09:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z5x3GQAzN3S-plD9@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250131001806.92349-2-vishal.moola@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:18:05PM -0800, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + xas_for_each(&xas, folio, last) {
This only maps folios currently in the page cache, which makes it
usefull for everything except ramfs-style purely in-memory file systems.
I.e. for the shmem use case in the second patch it fails to swap in
swapped out tmpfs folios.
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmap_file);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for any advances vmalloc-layer functionality, please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-31 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-31 0:18 [PATCH 0/2] vmalloc: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2025-01-31 0:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: " Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2025-01-31 7:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-02-03 19:23 ` Vishal Moola
2025-01-31 0:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm: Use vmap_file() in shmem_pin_map() Vishal Moola (Oracle)
2025-01-31 0:48 ` [PATCH 0/2] vmalloc: Introduce vmap_file() Andrew Morton
2025-02-03 18:53 ` Vishal Moola
2025-04-08 14:04 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-01-31 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
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