Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/rds: Track user mapped pages through special API

[santosh . shilimkar]

On 2/12/20 9:51 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 09:31:51AM -0800, santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On 2/11/20 7:03 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
> > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Convert net/rds to use the newly introduces pin_user_pages() API,
> > > which properly sets FOLL_PIN. Setting FOLL_PIN is now required for
> > > code that requires tracking of pinned pages.
> > >
> > > Note that this effectively changes the code's behavior: it now
> > > ultimately calls set_page_dirty_lock(), instead of set_page_dirty().
> > > This is probably more accurate.
> > >
> > > As Christoph Hellwig put it, "set_page_dirty() is only safe if we are
> > > dealing with a file backed page where we have reference on the inode it
> > > hangs off." [1]
> > >
> > > [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723153640.GB720@xxxxxxxx;!!GqivPVa7Brio!OJHuecs9Iup5ig3kQBi_423uMMuskWhBQAdOICrY3UQ_ZfEaxt9ySY7E8y32Q7pk5tByyA$
> > >
> > > Cc: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > Change looks fine to me. Just on safer side, we will try
> > to test this change with regression suite to make sure it
> > works as expected.
>
> Thanks Santosh,
> I wrote this patch before John's series was merged into the tree,
> but back then, Hans tested it and it worked, hope that it still works. :)
I see. Wasn't aware of it. In that case, its should be fine.

Regards,
Santosh