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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Does get_user_pages_fast lock the user pages in memory in my case?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:47:35 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904211544190.28178@qirst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EC44C6.1010603@gmail.com>

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Huang Shijie wrote:

> I will read the  migration  code, I am not clear about why the gup() can stop
> the migraion.

Because it increases the refcount of the page. Page migration is then
unable to account for all the references to a page and therefore the page
cannot be migrated.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-17  7:01 Huang Shijie
2009-04-18  6:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-20  2:22   ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-19 23:45 ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-20  2:15   ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-20  2:42     ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-20  3:28       ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-20  3:42         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-20  4:53         ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-20  5:05           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-20  5:05           ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-20  5:19             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-20  5:37               ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-20  7:59                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-20  8:23                   ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-20  9:24                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-20  9:47                       ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-21  1:43                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-21 19:47                         ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2009-04-20  5:24             ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-20  5:42               ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-20  3:57       ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-22  6:08       ` Huang Shijie
2009-04-22  9:46         ` Minchan Kim
2009-04-20  3:18     ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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