Re: [PATCH 05/13] mm/frame-vector: Use FOLL_LONGTERM

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 6:53 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 06:44:18PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >
> > -     /*
> > -      * While get_vaddr_frames() could be used for transient (kernel
> > -      * controlled lifetime) pinning of memory pages all current
> > -      * users establish long term (userspace controlled lifetime)
> > -      * page pinning. Treat get_vaddr_frames() like
> > -      * get_user_pages_longterm() and disallow it for filesystem-dax
> > -      * mappings.
> > -      */
> > -     if (vma_is_fsdax(vma)) {
> > -             ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > -             goto out;
> > -     }
> > -
> > -     if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {
> > -             vec->got_ref = true;
> > -             vec->is_pfns = false;
> > -             ret = pin_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
> > -                     gup_flags, (struct page **)(vec->ptrs), &locked);
> > -             goto out;
> > -     }
>
> The vm_flags still need to be checked before going into the while
> loop. If the break is taken then nothing would check vm_flags

Hm right that's a bin inconsistent. follow_pfn also checks for this,
so I think we can just ditch this entirely both here and in the do {}
while () check, simplifying the latter to just while (vma). Well, just
make it a real loop with less confusing control flow probably.

Or prefer I keep this and touch the code less?
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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