2020-05-27 22:36:13

by John Hubbard

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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages_locked(), use it in frame_vector.c

Hi,

This applies on top of the pin_user_pages_unlocked() patch that I sent
earlier [1].

This adds yet one more pin_user_pages*() variant, and uses that to
convert mm/frame_vector.c.

With this, along with maybe 20 or 30 other recent patches in various
trees, we are close to having the relevant gup call sites
converted--with the notable exception of the bio/block layer.


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

John Hubbard (2):
mm/gup: introduce pin_user_pages_locked()
mm/gup: frame_vector: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
mm/frame_vector.c | 7 +++----
mm/gup.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


base-commit: 9cb1fd0efd195590b828b9b865421ad345a4a145
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2.26.2


2020-05-27 22:37:12

by John Hubbard

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Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm/gup: frame_vector: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

This code was using get_user_pages*(), and all of the callers so far
were in a "Case 2" scenario (DMA/RDMA), using the categorization
from [1]. That means that it's time to convert the get_user_pages*() +
put_page() calls to pin_user_pages*() + unpin_user_pages() calls.

There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small
part of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and
file systems' use of those pages.

[1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst

[2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
---
mm/frame_vector.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
index c431ca81dad5..4107dbca0056 100644
--- a/mm/frame_vector.c
+++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {
vec->got_ref = true;
vec->is_pfns = false;
- ret = get_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
+ ret = pin_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
gup_flags, (struct page **)(vec->ptrs), &locked);
goto out;
}
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_vaddr_frames);
*/
void put_vaddr_frames(struct frame_vector *vec)
{
- int i;
struct page **pages;

if (!vec->got_ref)
@@ -135,8 +134,8 @@ void put_vaddr_frames(struct frame_vector *vec)
*/
if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(pages)))
goto out;
- for (i = 0; i < vec->nr_frames; i++)
- put_page(pages[i]);
+
+ unpin_user_pages(pages, vec->nr_frames);
vec->got_ref = false;
out:
vec->nr_frames = 0;
--
2.26.2

2020-05-28 08:49:15

by David Hildenbrand

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/gup: frame_vector: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

On 28.05.20 00:32, John Hubbard wrote:
> This code was using get_user_pages*(), and all of the callers so far
> were in a "Case 2" scenario (DMA/RDMA), using the categorization
> from [1]. That means that it's time to convert the get_user_pages*() +
> put_page() calls to pin_user_pages*() + unpin_user_pages() calls.
>
> There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small
> part of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and
> file systems' use of those pages.
>
> [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
>
> [2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
> https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/
>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
> ---
> mm/frame_vector.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
> index c431ca81dad5..4107dbca0056 100644
> --- a/mm/frame_vector.c
> +++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
> if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {
> vec->got_ref = true;
> vec->is_pfns = false;
> - ret = get_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
> + ret = pin_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
> gup_flags, (struct page **)(vec->ptrs), &locked);
> goto out;
> }
> @@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_vaddr_frames);
> */
> void put_vaddr_frames(struct frame_vector *vec)
> {
> - int i;
> struct page **pages;
>
> if (!vec->got_ref)
> @@ -135,8 +134,8 @@ void put_vaddr_frames(struct frame_vector *vec)
> */
> if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(pages)))
> goto out;
> - for (i = 0; i < vec->nr_frames; i++)
> - put_page(pages[i]);
> +
> + unpin_user_pages(pages, vec->nr_frames);
> vec->got_ref = false;
> out:
> vec->nr_frames = 0;
>

Not familiar with this code, but from what I can tell this LGTM.

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb