The patch titled
Subject: vhost: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vhost-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/vhost-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/vhost-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: vhost: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()
This code was using get_user_pages*(), in approximately a "Case 5"
scenario (accessing the data within a page), using the categorization from
[1]. That means that it's time to convert the get_user_pages*() +
put_page() calls to pin_user_pages*() + unpin_user_pages() calls.
There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small part
of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and file
systems' use of those pages.
[1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
[2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529234309.484480-3-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c~vhost-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages
+++ a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1776,15 +1776,14 @@ static int set_bit_to_user(int nr, void
int bit = nr + (log % PAGE_SIZE) * 8;
int r;
- r = get_user_pages_fast(log, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &page);
+ r = pin_user_pages_fast(log, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &page);
if (r < 0)
return r;
BUG_ON(r != 1);
base = kmap_atomic(page);
set_bit(bit, base);
kunmap_atomic(base);
- set_page_dirty_lock(page);
- put_page(page);
+ unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, true);
return 0;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-gup-introduce-pin_user_pages_unlocked.patch
ivtv-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
mm-gup-move-__get_user_pages_fast-down-a-few-lines-in-gupc.patch
mm-gup-refactor-and-de-duplicate-gup_fast-code.patch
mm-gup-refactor-and-de-duplicate-gup_fast-code-fix.patch
mm-gup-introduce-pin_user_pages_fast_only.patch
drm-i915-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
mm-gup-might_lock_readmmap_sem-in-get_user_pages_fast.patch
khugepaged-add-self-test-fix-3.patch
rapidio-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
mm-gup-update-pin_user_pagesrst-for-case-3-mmu-notifiers.patch
mm-gup-introduce-pin_user_pages_locked.patch
mm-gup-introduce-pin_user_pages_locked-v2.patch
mm-gup-frame_vector-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
mm-gup-documentation-fix-for-pin_user_pages-apis.patch
docs-mm-gup-pin_user_pagesrst-add-a-case-5.patch
vhost-convert-get_user_pages-pin_user_pages.patch
