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From:   David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc:     dhowells@redhat.com, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just list)
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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:52:41 +0000
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Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 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 handl=
e
> > 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 fr=
om this
> > series also, so would it be possible for you to merge at least those t=
wo
> > 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