mm: add get_kernel_page[s] for pinning of kernel addresses for I/O
This patch adds two new APIs get_kernel_pages() and get_kernel_page() that
may be used to pin a vector of kernel addresses for IO. The initial user
is expected to be NFS for allowing pages to be written to swap using
aops->direct_IO(). Strictly speaking, swap-over-NFS only needs to pin one
page for IO but it makes sense to express the API in terms of a vector and
add a helper for pinning single pages.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Christie <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: Xiaotian Feng <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>