Re: [PATCH v7 07/24] IB/umem: use get_user_pages_fast() to pin DMA pages

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 09:36:53 EST


On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:07:46AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:13:37PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> > And get rid of the mmap_sem calls, as part of that. Note
> > that get_user_pages_fast() will, if necessary, fall back to
> > __gup_longterm_unlocked(), which takes the mmap_sem as needed.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks fine,
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Jason, can you queue this up for 5.5 to reduce this patch stack a bit?

Yes, I said I'd do this in an earlier revision. Now that it is clear this
won't go through Andrew's tree, applied to rdma for-next

Thanks,
Jason