Driver fault callbacks are allowed to drop the mmap_sem when expecting
long hardware waits to avoid blocking other mm users. Allow the mkwrite
callbacks to do the same by returning early on VM_FAULT_RETRY.
In particular we want to be able to drop the mmap_sem when waiting for
a reservation object
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 4:28 PM Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>
> Hi, Souptick,
>
> On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 20:41 +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:34 PM Thomas Hellstrom <
> > thellst...@vmware.com> wrote:
> > > Driver fault callbacks are allowed to drop the mmap_sem when
> >
Hi, Souptick,
On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 20:41 +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:34 PM Thomas Hellstrom <
> thellst...@vmware.com> wrote:
> > Driver fault callbacks are allowed to drop the mmap_sem when
> > expecting
> > long hardware waits to avoid blocking other mm users.
On 4/12/19 9:04 AM, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
Driver fault callbacks are allowed to drop the mmap_sem when expecting
long hardware waits to avoid blocking other mm users. Allow the mkwrite
callbacks to do the same by returning early on VM_FAULT_RETRY.
In particular we want to be able to drop the
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:34 PM Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
>
> Driver fault callbacks are allowed to drop the mmap_sem when expecting
> long hardware waits to avoid blocking other mm users. Allow the mkwrite
> callbacks to do the same by returning early on VM_FAULT_RETRY.
>
> In particular we want
Driver fault callbacks are allowed to drop the mmap_sem when expecting
long hardware waits to avoid blocking other mm users. Allow the mkwrite
callbacks to do the same by returning early on VM_FAULT_RETRY.
In particular we want to be able to drop the mmap_sem when waiting for
a reservation object
