Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 16/20] mm/frame-vector: remove FOLL_FORCE usage

[Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David, Tomasz,

On 16/11/2022 11:26, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> FOLL_FORCE is really only for ptrace access. According to commit
> 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are always
> writable"), get_vaddr_frames() currently pins all pages writable as a
> workaround for issues with read-only buffers.

I've decided to revert 707947247e95: I have not been able to reproduce the problem
described in that commit, and Tomasz reported that it caused problems with a
specific use-case they encountered. I'll post that patch soon and I expect it
to land in 6.2. It will cause a conflict with this patch, though.

If the problem described in that patch occurs again, then I will revisit it
and hopefully do a better job than I did before. That commit was not my
finest moment.

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> FOLL_FORCE, however, seems to be a legacy leftover as it predates
> commit 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are
> always writable"). Let's just remove it.
> 
> Once the read-only buffer issue has been resolved, FOLL_WRITE could
> again be set depending on the DMA direction.
> 
> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> index 542dde9d2609..062e98148c53 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
>  	start = untagged_addr(start);
>  
>  	ret = pin_user_pages_fast(start, nr_frames,
> -				  FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
> +				  FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
>  				  (struct page **)(vec->ptrs));
>  	if (ret > 0) {
>  		vec->got_ref = true;