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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2023 10:14:46 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v21 6/6] block: convert bio_map_user_iov to use
 iov_iter_extract_pages
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On Mon 22-05-23 21:57:44, David Howells wrote:
> This will pin pages or leave them unaltered rather than getting a ref on
> them as appropriate to the iterator.
> 
> The pages need to be pinned for DIO rather than having refs taken on them
> to prevent VM copy-on-write from malfunctioning during a concurrent fork()
> (the result of the I/O could otherwise end up being visible to/affected by
> the child process).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
> ---

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

> 
> Notes:
>     ver #10)
>      - Drop bio_set_cleanup_mode(), open coding it instead.
>     
>     ver #8)
>      - Split the patch up a bit [hch].
>      - We should only be using pinned/non-pinned pages and not ref'd pages,
>        so adjust the comments appropriately.
>     
>     ver #7)
>      - Don't treat BIO_PAGE_REFFED/PINNED as being the same as FOLL_GET/PIN.
>     
>     ver #5)
>      - Transcribe the FOLL_* flags returned by iov_iter_extract_pages() to
>        BIO_* flags and got rid of bi_cleanup_mode.
>      - Replaced BIO_NO_PAGE_REF to BIO_PAGE_REFFED in the preceding patch.
> 
>  block/blk-map.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c
> index 33d9f6e89ba6..3551c3ff17cf 100644
> --- a/block/blk-map.c
> +++ b/block/blk-map.c
> @@ -281,22 +281,21 @@ static int bio_map_user_iov(struct request *rq, struct iov_iter *iter,
>  
>  	if (blk_queue_pci_p2pdma(rq->q))
>  		extraction_flags |= ITER_ALLOW_P2PDMA;
> +	if (iov_iter_extract_will_pin(iter))
> +		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_PAGE_PINNED);
>  
> -	bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_PAGE_REFFED);
>  	while (iov_iter_count(iter)) {
> -		struct page **pages, *stack_pages[UIO_FASTIOV];
> +		struct page *stack_pages[UIO_FASTIOV];
> +		struct page **pages = stack_pages;
>  		ssize_t bytes;
>  		size_t offs;
>  		int npages;
>  
> -		if (nr_vecs <= ARRAY_SIZE(stack_pages)) {
> -			pages = stack_pages;
> -			bytes = iov_iter_get_pages(iter, pages, LONG_MAX,
> -						   nr_vecs, &offs, extraction_flags);
> -		} else {
> -			bytes = iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(iter, &pages,
> -						LONG_MAX, &offs, extraction_flags);
> -		}
> +		if (nr_vecs > ARRAY_SIZE(stack_pages))
> +			pages = NULL;
> +
> +		bytes = iov_iter_extract_pages(iter, &pages, LONG_MAX,
> +					       nr_vecs, extraction_flags, &offs);
>  		if (unlikely(bytes <= 0)) {
>  			ret = bytes ? bytes : -EFAULT;
>  			goto out_unmap;
> @@ -318,7 +317,7 @@ static int bio_map_user_iov(struct request *rq, struct iov_iter *iter,
>  				if (!bio_add_hw_page(rq->q, bio, page, n, offs,
>  						     max_sectors, &same_page)) {
>  					if (same_page)
> -						put_page(page);
> +						bio_release_page(bio, page);
>  					break;
>  				}
>  
> @@ -330,7 +329,7 @@ static int bio_map_user_iov(struct request *rq, struct iov_iter *iter,
>  		 * release the pages we didn't map into the bio, if any
>  		 */
>  		while (j < npages)
> -			put_page(pages[j++]);
> +			bio_release_page(bio, pages[j++]);
>  		if (pages != stack_pages)
>  			kvfree(pages);
>  		/* couldn't stuff something into bio? */
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR