Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm/gup: introduce vaddr_pin_pages_remote()

From: John Hubbard
Date: Thu Aug 15 2019 - 22:14:13 EST


On 8/15/19 10:41 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 8/15/19 10:32 AM, Ira Weiny wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 03:35:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> On Thu 15-08-19 15:26:22, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>> On Wed 14-08-19 20:01:07, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>>> On 8/14/19 5:02 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
...
>> Ok just to make this clear I threw up my current tree with your patches here:
>>
>> https://github.com/weiny2/linux-kernel/commits/mmotm-rdmafsdax-b0-v4
>>
>> I'm talking about dropping the final patch:
>> 05fd2d3afa6b rdma/umem_odp: Use vaddr_pin_pages_remote() in ODP
>>
>> The other 2 can stay. I split out the *_remote() call. We don't have a user
>> but I'll keep it around for a bit.
>>
>> This tree is still WIP as I work through all the comments. So I've not changed
>> names or variable types etc... Just wanted to settle this.
>>
>
> Right. And now that ODP is not a user, I'll take a quick look through my other
> call site conversions and see if I can find an easy one, to include here as
> the first user of vaddr_pin_pages_remote(). I'll send it your way if that
> works out.
>

OK, there was only process_vm_access.c, plus (sort of) Bharath's sgi-gru
patch, maybe eventually [1]. But looking at process_vm_access.c, I think
it is one of the patches that is no longer applicable, and I can just
drop it entirely...I'd welcome a second opinion on that...

So we might be all out of potential users for vaddr_pin_pages_remote()!

For quick reference, it looks like this:

diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c
index 357aa7bef6c0..4d29d54ec93f 100644
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c
+++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static int process_vm_rw_single_vec(unsigned long addr,
flags |= FOLL_WRITE;

while (!rc && nr_pages && iov_iter_count(iter)) {
- int pages = min(nr_pages, max_pages_per_loop);
+ int pinned_pages = min(nr_pages, max_pages_per_loop);
int locked = 1;
size_t bytes;

@@ -106,14 +106,15 @@ static int process_vm_rw_single_vec(unsigned long addr,
* current/current->mm
*/
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- pages = get_user_pages_remote(task, mm, pa, pages, flags,
- process_pages, NULL, &locked);
+ pinned_pages = get_user_pages_remote(task, mm, pa, pinned_pages,
+ flags, process_pages, NULL,
+ &locked);
if (locked)
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- if (pages <= 0)
+ if (pinned_pages <= 0)
return -EFAULT;

- bytes = pages * PAGE_SIZE - start_offset;
+ bytes = pinned_pages * PAGE_SIZE - start_offset;
if (bytes > len)
bytes = len;

@@ -122,10 +123,9 @@ static int process_vm_rw_single_vec(unsigned long addr,
vm_write);
len -= bytes;
start_offset = 0;
- nr_pages -= pages;
- pa += pages * PAGE_SIZE;
- while (pages)
- put_page(process_pages[--pages]);
+ nr_pages -= pinned_pages;
+ pa += pinned_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
+ put_user_pages(process_pages, pinned_pages);
}

return rc;


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1565379497-29266-2-git-send-email-linux.bhar@xxxxxxxxx

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA