Re: [PATCH v5 11/24] goldish_pipe: convert to pin_user_pages() and put_user_page()

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Nov 18 2019 - 07:01:50 EST


On Thu 14-11-19 21:53:27, John Hubbard wrote:
> 1. Call the new global pin_user_pages_fast(), from pin_goldfish_pages().
>
> 2. As required by pin_user_pages(), release these pages via
> put_user_page(). In this case, do so via put_user_pages_dirty_lock().
>
> That has the side effect of calling set_page_dirty_lock(), instead
> of set_page_dirty(). This is probably more accurate.
>
> As Christoph Hellwig put it, "set_page_dirty() is only safe if we are
> dealing with a file backed page where we have reference on the inode it
> hangs off." [1]
>
> Another side effect is that the release code is simplified because
> the page[] loop is now in gup.c instead of here, so just delete the
> local release_user_pages() entirely, and call
> put_user_pages_dirty_lock() directly, instead.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723153640.GB720@xxxxxx
>
> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c | 17 +++--------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
> index 7ed2a21a0bac..635a8bc1b480 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int pin_goldfish_pages(unsigned long first_page,
> *iter_last_page_size = last_page_size;
> }
>
> - ret = get_user_pages_fast(first_page, requested_pages,
> + ret = pin_user_pages_fast(first_page, requested_pages,
> !is_write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0,
> pages);
> if (ret <= 0)
> @@ -285,18 +285,6 @@ static int pin_goldfish_pages(unsigned long first_page,
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static void release_user_pages(struct page **pages, int pages_count,
> - int is_write, s32 consumed_size)
> -{
> - int i;
> -
> - for (i = 0; i < pages_count; i++) {
> - if (!is_write && consumed_size > 0)
> - set_page_dirty(pages[i]);
> - put_page(pages[i]);
> - }
> -}
> -
> /* Populate the call parameters, merging adjacent pages together */
> static void populate_rw_params(struct page **pages,
> int pages_count,
> @@ -372,7 +360,8 @@ static int transfer_max_buffers(struct goldfish_pipe *pipe,
>
> *consumed_size = pipe->command_buffer->rw_params.consumed_size;
>
> - release_user_pages(pipe->pages, pages_count, is_write, *consumed_size);
> + put_user_pages_dirty_lock(pipe->pages, pages_count,
> + !is_write && *consumed_size > 0);
>
> mutex_unlock(&pipe->lock);
> return 0;
> --
> 2.24.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR