Re: [PATCH RESEND] drm/via: use get_user_pages_unlocked()

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On 28 February 2017 at 19:35, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:01:10AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>
>> > +   ret = get_user_pages_unlocked((unsigned long)xfer->mem_addr,
>> > +                   vsg->num_pages, vsg->pages,
>> > +                   (vsg->direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ? FOLL_WRITE : 0);
>
> Umm...  Why not
>         ret = get_user_pages_fast((unsigned long)xfer->mem_addr,
>                         vsg->num_pages,
>                         vsg->direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE,
>                         vsg->pages);
>
> IOW, do you really need a warranty that ->mmap_sem will be grabbed and
> released?

Daniel will be better placed to answer in this specific case, but more
generally is there any reason why we can't just use
get_user_pages_fast() in all such cases? These patches were simply a
mechanical/cautious replacement for code that is more or less exactly
equivalent but if this would make sense perhaps it'd be worth using
gup_fast() where possible?

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