linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 02/24] mm/gup: factor out duplicate code from four routines

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Message-ID: <20191122111502.GC26721@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:15:02 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/24] mm/gup: factor out duplicate code from four
 routines

On Thu 21-11-19 18:54:02, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 11/21/19 1:54 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Thu 21-11-19 00:29:59, John Hubbard wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Otherwise this looks fine and might be a worthwhile cleanup to feed
> > > > Andrew for 5.5 independent of the gut of the changes.
> > > > 
> > > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the reviews! Say, it sounds like your view here is that this
> > > series should be targeted at 5.6 (not 5.5), is that what you have in mind?
> > > And get the preparatory patches (1-9, and maybe even 10-16) into 5.5?
> > 
> > One more note :) If you are going to push pin_user_pages() interfaces
> > (which I'm fine with), it would probably make sense to push also the
> > put_user_pages() -> unpin_user_pages() renaming so that that inconsistency
> > in naming does not exist in the released upstream kernel.
> > 
> > 								Honza
> 
> Yes, that's what this patch series does. But I'm not sure if "push" here
> means, "push out: defer to 5.6", "push (now) into 5.5", or "advocate for"?

I meant to include the patch in the "for 5.5" batch.

> I will note that it's not going to be easy to rename in one step, now
> that this is being split up. Because various put_user_pages()-based items
> are going into 5.5 via different maintainer trees now. Probably I'd need
> to introduce unpin_user_page() alongside put_user_page()...thoughts?

Yes, I understand that moving that patch from the end of the series would
cause fair amount of conflicts. I was hoping that you could generate the
patch with sed/Coccinelle and then rebasing what remains for 5.6 on top of
that patch should not be that painful so overall it should not be that much
work. But I may be wrong so if it proves to be too tedious, let's just
postpone the renaming to 5.6. I don't find having both unpin_user_page()
and put_user_page() a better alternative to current state. Thanks!

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR