Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] vduse: Remove unnecessary spin lock protection

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Jul 13 2022 - 01:57:43 EST


On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 01:04:59PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> Taking iotlb lock to access bounce page in page fault
> handler is meaningless since vduse_domain_free_bounce_pages()
> would only be called during file release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

vduse_domain_free_bounce_pages is not the
only one taking this lock. This commit log needs more
analysis documenting all points of access to bounce_maps
and why vduse_domain_get_bounce_page and file
release are the only two.

> ---
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
> index 6daa3978d290..bca1f0b8850c 100644
> --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
> @@ -211,17 +211,14 @@ static struct page *
> vduse_domain_get_bounce_page(struct vduse_iova_domain *domain, u64 iova)
> {
> struct vduse_bounce_map *map;
> - struct page *page = NULL;
> + struct page *page;
>
> - spin_lock(&domain->iotlb_lock);
> map = &domain->bounce_maps[iova >> PAGE_SHIFT];
> if (!map->bounce_page)
> - goto out;
> + return NULL;
>
> page = map->bounce_page;
> get_page(page);
> -out:
> - spin_unlock(&domain->iotlb_lock);
>
> return page;
> }
> --
> 2.20.1