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Date:   Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:55:16 +1100
From:   Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To:     john.hubbard@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] mm: introduce page->dma_pinned_flags, _count
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:00:12PM -0700, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> 
> Add two struct page fields that, combined, are unioned with
> struct page->lru. There is no change in the size of
> struct page. These new fields are for type safety and clarity.
> 
> Also add page flag accessors to test, set and clear the new
> page->dma_pinned_flags field.
> 
> The page->dma_pinned_count field will be used in upcoming
> patches
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm_types.h   | 22 +++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/page-flags.h | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index 5ed8f6292a53..017ab82e36ca 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -78,12 +78,22 @@ struct page {
>  	 */
>  	union {
>  		struct {	/* Page cache and anonymous pages */
> -			/**
> -			 * @lru: Pageout list, eg. active_list protected by
> -			 * zone_lru_lock.  Sometimes used as a generic list
> -			 * by the page owner.
> -			 */
> -			struct list_head lru;
> +			union {
> +				/**
> +				 * @lru: Pageout list, eg. active_list protected
> +				 * by zone_lru_lock.  Sometimes used as a
> +				 * generic list by the page owner.
> +				 */
> +				struct list_head lru;
> +				/* Used by get_user_pages*(). Pages may not be
> +				 * on an LRU while these dma_pinned_* fields
> +				 * are in use.
> +				 */
> +				struct {
> +					unsigned long dma_pinned_flags;
> +					atomic_t      dma_pinned_count;
> +				};
> +			};

Isn't this broken for mapped file-backed pages? i.e. they may be
passed as the user buffer to read/write direct IO and so the pages
passed to gup will be on the active/inactive LRUs. hence I can't see
how you can have dual use of the LRU list head like this....

What am I missing here?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com