On 9/21/20 4:53 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
On 9/21/20 2:17 PM, Peter Xu wrote:
(Commit message collected from Jason Gunthorpe)
Reduce the chance of false positive from page_maybe_dma_pinned() by keeping
Not yet, it doesn't. :) More:
track if the mm_struct has ever been used with pin_user_pages(). mm_structs
that have never been passed to pin_user_pages() cannot have a positive
page_maybe_dma_pinned() by definition. This allows cases that might drive up
the page ref_count to avoid any penalty from handling dma_pinned pages.
Due to complexities with unpining this trivial version is a permanent sticky
bit, future work will be needed to make this a counter.
How about this instead:
Subsequent patches intend to reduce the chance of false positives from
page_maybe_dma_pinned(), by also considering whether or not a page has
even been part of an mm struct that has ever had pin_user_pages*()
arggh, correction: please make that:
"...whether or not a page is part of an mm struct that...".
(Present tense.) Otherwise, people start wondering about the checkered past
of a page's past lives, and it badly distracts from the main point here. :)
thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA
