Article 5Z39X [$] Page pinning and filesystems

[$] Page pinning and filesystems

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It would have been surprising indeed if the 2022 Linux Storage,Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) did not include asession working toward solutions to the longstanding problems withget_user_pages(), an internal function that locks user-space pagesin memory for access by the kernel. The issue has, after all, come up numerous timesover the years. This year's event duly contained a session in the jointfilesystem and memory-management track, led by John Hubbard, with a focuson page pinning and how it interacts with filesystems.
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