Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: fix omission of check on FOLL_LONGTERM in get_user_pages_fast()

[Pingfan Liu]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 7:52 AM Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 04:21:19PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> > On 5/30/19 2:47 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:54:04AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > [...]
> > >> +                          for (j = i; j < nr; j++)
> > >> +                                  put_page(pages[j]);
> > >
> > > Should be put_user_page() now.  For now that just calls put_page() but it is
> > > slated to change soon.
> > >
> > > I also wonder if this would be more efficient as a check as we are walking the
> > > page tables and bail early.
> > >
> > > Perhaps the code complexity is not worth it?
> >
> > Good point, it might be worth it. Because now we've got two loops that
> > we run, after the interrupts-off page walk, and it's starting to look like
> > a potential performance concern.
>
> FWIW I don't see this being a huge issue at the moment.  Perhaps those more
> familiar with CMA can weigh in here.  How was this issue found?  If it was
> found by running some test perhaps that indicates a performance preference?
>
I found the bug by reading code. And I do not see any performance
concern. Bailing out early contritute little to performance, as we
fall on the slow path immediately.

Regards,
  Pingfan
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