linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 07/24] IB/umem: use get_user_pages

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Message-ID: <17835638-d584-f981-faa3-34d57e0990de@nvidia.com>
Date:   Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:14:57 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 07/24] IB/umem: use get_user_pages_fast() to pin DMA
 pages

On 11/21/19 6:36 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:07:46AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:13:37PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
>>> And get rid of the mmap_sem calls, as part of that. Note
>>> that get_user_pages_fast() will, if necessary, fall back to
>>> __gup_longterm_unlocked(), which takes the mmap_sem as needed.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
>>> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
>>
>> Looks fine,
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>>
>> Jason, can you queue this up for 5.5 to reduce this patch stack a bit?
> 
> Yes, I said I'd do this in an earlier revision. Now that it is clear this
> won't go through Andrew's tree, applied to rdma for-next
> 

Great, I'll plan on it going up through that tree. To be clear, is it headed 
for:

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git for-next

?


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA