Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 12:47:30PM -0500, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> Most of the user of GUP are well behave (everything under driver/gpu and
> so is mellanox driver and many other) ie they abide by mmu notifier
> invalidation call backs. They are a handfull of device driver that thought
> they could just do GUP and ignore the mmu notifier part and those are the
> one being problematic. So to me it feels like bystander are be shot for no
> good reasons.

get_user_pages is used by every single direct I/O, and while the race
windows in that case are small they very much exists.