[PATCH v2 2/2] mm/gup: frame_vector: convert get_user_pages() --> pin_user_pages()

From: John Hubbard
Date: Sun May 31 2020 - 19:41:44 EST


This code was using get_user_pages*(), and all of the callers so far
were in a "Case 2" scenario (DMA/RDMA), 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/

Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/frame_vector.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
index c431ca81dad5..4107dbca0056 100644
--- a/mm/frame_vector.c
+++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {
vec->got_ref = true;
vec->is_pfns = false;
- ret = get_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
+ ret = pin_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
gup_flags, (struct page **)(vec->ptrs), &locked);
goto out;
}
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_vaddr_frames);
*/
void put_vaddr_frames(struct frame_vector *vec)
{
- int i;
struct page **pages;

if (!vec->got_ref)
@@ -135,8 +134,8 @@ void put_vaddr_frames(struct frame_vector *vec)
*/
if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(pages)))
goto out;
- for (i = 0; i < vec->nr_frames; i++)
- put_page(pages[i]);
+
+ unpin_user_pages(pages, vec->nr_frames);
vec->got_ref = false;
out:
vec->nr_frames = 0;
--
2.26.2