Re: [PATCH] drivers/virt: use get_user_pages_unlocked()

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Tue Jan 03 2017 - 16:16:26 EST


Just a gentle ping on this :) I think this might be a slightly
abandoned corner of the kernel so not sure who else to ping to get
this moving.

On 1 November 2016 at 19:43, Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Moving from get_user_pages() to get_user_pages_unlocked() simplifies the code
> and takes advantage of VM_FAULT_RETRY functionality when faulting in pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c b/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c
> index 150ce2a..d3eca87 100644
> --- a/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c
> +++ b/drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c
> @@ -243,11 +243,8 @@ static long ioctl_memcpy(struct fsl_hv_ioctl_memcpy __user *p)
> sg_list = PTR_ALIGN(sg_list_unaligned, sizeof(struct fh_sg_list));
>
> /* Get the physical addresses of the source buffer */
> - down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> - num_pinned = get_user_pages(param.local_vaddr - lb_offset,
> - num_pages, (param.source == -1) ? 0 : FOLL_WRITE,
> - pages, NULL);
> - up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> + num_pinned = get_user_pages_unlocked(param.local_vaddr - lb_offset,
> + num_pages, pages, (param.source == -1) ? 0 : FOLL_WRITE);
>
> if (num_pinned != num_pages) {
> /* get_user_pages() failed */
> --
> 2.10.2
>



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