Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen/gntdev.c: Convert get_user_pages*() to pin_user_pages*()
From: boris . ostrovsky
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 10:11:12 EST
On 9/29/20 10:14 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 6:00 PM <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 9/29/20 8:09 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 8:12 PM <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 9/6/20 2:51 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>>>>> In 2019, we introduced pin_user_pages*() and now we are converting
>>>>> get_user_pages*() to the new API as appropriate. [1] & [2] could
>>>>> be referred for more information. This is case 5 as per document [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
>>>>>
>>>>> [2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages":
>>>>> https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Are these 2 patches queued for 5.10-rc1 ?
>>
>>
>> Yes, I am preparing the branch. (BTW, your second patch appears to have been either manually edited or not generated on top of the first patch. Please don't do this next time)
>
> I created it on top of the first one and didn't edit manually.
> I was able to apply it in my local repository.
> What was the error ?
>
Patch 1:
+ if (batch->writeable && !PageDirty(batch->pages[i]))
Patch 2:
- if(batch->writeable && !PageDirty(batch->pages[i]))
This doesn't look to me like usual whitespace damage in-flight. Anyway, this has been applied to for-linus-5.10
-boris