Re: [PATCH 3/8] drm/i915/userptr: Acquire the page lock around set_page_dirty()

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:35:51AM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> set_page_dirty says:
> 
> 	For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock
> 	for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a
> 	consistent dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special
> 	cases, but should be better not to.
> 
> Under those rules, it is only safe for us to use the plain set_page_dirty
> calls for shmemfs/anonymous memory. Userptr may be used with real
> mappings and so needs to use the locked version (set_page_dirty_lock).
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203317
> Fixes: 5cc9ed4b9a7a ("drm/i915: Introduce mapping of user pages into video memory (userptr) ioctl")
> References: 6dcc693bc57f ("ext4: warn when page is dirtied without buffers")
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190708140327.26825-1-chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (cherry picked from commit cb6d7c7dc7ff8cace666ddec66334117a6068ce2)

This commit id is not in Linus's tree.

I've stopped here, and dropped patch 1/8 as well.  Please fix these all
up to have the correct git ids and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux