Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/gup: add make_dirty arg to put_user_pages_dirty_lock()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 01 2019 - 02:08:12 EST


On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:57:03PM -0700, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> @@ -40,10 +40,7 @@
> static void __qib_release_user_pages(struct page **p, size_t num_pages,
> int dirty)
> {
> - if (dirty)
> - put_user_pages_dirty_lock(p, num_pages);
> - else
> - put_user_pages(p, num_pages);
> + put_user_pages_dirty_lock(p, num_pages, dirty);
> }

__qib_release_user_pages should be removed now as a direct call to
put_user_pages_dirty_lock is a lot more clear.

> index 0b0237d41613..62e6ffa9ad78 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
> @@ -75,10 +75,7 @@ static void usnic_uiom_put_pages(struct list_head *chunk_list, int dirty)
> for_each_sg(chunk->page_list, sg, chunk->nents, i) {
> page = sg_page(sg);
> pa = sg_phys(sg);
> - if (dirty)
> - put_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1);
> - else
> - put_user_page(page);
> + put_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, dirty);
> usnic_dbg("pa: %pa\n", &pa);

There is a pre-existing bug here, as this needs to use the sg_page
iterator. Probably worth throwing in a fix into your series while you
are at it.

> @@ -63,15 +63,7 @@ struct siw_mem *siw_mem_id2obj(struct siw_device *sdev, int stag_index)
> static void siw_free_plist(struct siw_page_chunk *chunk, int num_pages,
> bool dirty)
> {
> - struct page **p = chunk->plist;
> -
> - while (num_pages--) {
> - if (!PageDirty(*p) && dirty)
> - put_user_pages_dirty_lock(p, 1);
> - else
> - put_user_page(*p);
> - p++;
> - }
> + put_user_pages_dirty_lock(chunk->plist, num_pages, dirty);

siw_free_plist should just go away now.

Otherwise this looks good to me.