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Message-ID: <0d6797d8-1e04-1ebe-80a7-3d6895fe71b0@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:47:21 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm/gup: introduce vaddr_pin_pages_remote()
On 8/15/19 3:35 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>
>> So when the GUP user uses MMU notifiers to stop writing to pages whenever
>> they are writeprotected with page_mkclean(), they don't really need page
>> pin - their access is then fully equivalent to any other mmap userspace
>> access and filesystem knows how to deal with those. I forgot out this case
>> when I wrote the above sentence.
>>
>> So to sum up there are three cases:
>> 1) DIO case - GUP references to pages serving as DIO buffers are needed for
>> relatively short time, no special synchronization with page_mkclean() or
>> munmap() => needs FOLL_PIN
>> 2) RDMA case - GUP references to pages serving as DMA buffers needed for a
>> long time, no special synchronization with page_mkclean() or munmap()
>> => needs FOLL_PIN | FOLL_LONGTERM
>> This case has also a special case when the pages are actually DAX. Then
>> the caller additionally needs file lease and additional file_pin
>> structure is used for tracking this usage.
>> 3) ODP case - GUP references to pages serving as DMA buffers, MMU notifiers
>> used to synchronize with page_mkclean() and munmap() => normal page
>> references are fine.
IMHO the munlock lesson told us about another one, that's in the end equivalent
to 3)
4) pinning for struct page manipulation only => normal page references are fine
> I want to add that I'd like to convert users in cases 1) and 2) from using
> GUP to using differently named function. Users in case 3) can stay as they
> are for now although ultimately I'd like to denote such use cases in a
> special way as well...
So after 1/2/3 is renamed/specially denoted, only 4) keeps the current interface?
> Honza
>
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