linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH RFC 03/10] mm/gup: Pass flags down to __gup_device

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jun 2019 23:18:19 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     ira.weiny@...el.com
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 03/10] mm/gup: Pass flags down to __gup_device_huge*
 calls

On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 06:45:36PM -0700, ira.weiny@...el.com wrote:
> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> 
> In order to support checking for a layout lease on a FS DAX inode these
> calls need to know if FOLL_LONGTERM was specified.
> 
> Prepare for this with this patch.

The GUP fast argument passing is a mess.  That is why I've come up
with this as part of the (not ready) get_user_pages_fast_bvec
implementation:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/commitdiff/c3d019802dbde5a4cc4160e7ec8ccba479b19f97