On 7/22/19 2:33 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 09:30:10PM -0700, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> for (i = 0; i < vsg->num_pages; ++i) {
>> if (NULL != (page = vsg->pages[i])) {
>> if (!PageReserved(page) && (DMA_FROM_DEVICE == vsg->direction))
>> - SetPageDirty(page);
>> - put_page(page);
>> + put_user_pages_dirty(&page, 1);
>> + else
>> + put_user_page(page);
>> }
>
> Can't just pass a dirty argument to put_user_pages? Also do we really
Yes, and in fact that would help a lot more than the single page case,
which is really just cosmetic after all.
> need a separate put_user_page for the single page case?
> put_user_pages_dirty?
Not really. I'm still zeroing in on the ideal API for all these call sites,
and I agree that the approach below is cleaner.
>
> Also the PageReserved check looks bogus, as I can't see how a reserved
> page can end up here. So IMHO the above snippled should really look
> something like this:
>
> put_user_pages(vsg->pages[i], vsg->num_pages,
> vsg->direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>
> in the end.
>
Agreed.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
