Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: gup: add get_user_pages_locked and get_user_pages_unlocked

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:06:27AM -0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:56:35AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >> +             /* VM_FAULT_RETRY cannot return errors */
> >> +             if (!*locked) {
> >> +                     BUG_ON(ret < 0);
> >> +                     BUG_ON(nr_pages == 1 && ret);
> >
> > If I understand correctly, this second BUG_ON is asserting that when
> > __get_user_pages is asked for a single page and it is successfully gets the
> > page, then it shouldn't have dropped the mmap_sem. If that's the case, then
> > you could generalize this assertion to
> >
> >                         BUG_ON(nr_pages == ret);

Agreed.

> 
> Even more strict:
>      BUG_ON(ret >= nr_pages);

Agreed too, plus this should be quicker than my weaker check.

Maybe some BUG_ON can be deleted later or converted to VM_BUG_ON, but
initially I feel safer with the BUG_ON considering that is a slow
path.

> Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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