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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2020-05-22 09:12:09 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2020-06-21 20:44:25 -0600
commitdd3e6d5039de1cbff4e20e2b34390ff44cdb182f (patch)
tree459a91bf1f1bf0ef2c2346a8f405499d1248d8cf /kernel/sched
parentc7510ab2cf5ccd997fe7f194edfe09cc511abf99 (diff)
mm: add support for async page locking
Normally waiting for a page to become unlocked, or locking the page, requires waiting for IO to complete. Add support for lock_page_async() and wait_on_page_locked_async(), which are callback based instead. This allows a caller to get notified when a page becomes unlocked, rather than wait for it. We add a new iocb field, ki_waitq, to pass in the necessary data for this to happen. We can unionize this with ki_cookie, since that is only used for polled IO. Polled IO can never co-exist with async callbacks, as it is (by definition) polled completions. struct wait_page_key is made public, and we define struct wait_page_async as the interface between the caller and the core. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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