linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] iov_iter: introduce iov_iter_pin_user

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Date:   Sat, 29 Aug 2020 14:58:45 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] iov_iter: introduce iov_iter_pin_user_pages*()
 routines

On 8/29/20 7:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 01:08:52AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
...
>> @@ -1280,7 +1281,11 @@ static inline ssize_t __pipe_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i,
>>   	maxsize = n;
>>   	n += *start;
>>   	while (n > 0) {
>> -		get_page(*pages++ = pipe->bufs[iter_head & p_mask].page);
>> +		if (use_pup)
>> +			pin_user_page(*pages++ = pipe->bufs[iter_head & p_mask].page);
>> +		else
>> +			get_page(*pages++ = pipe->bufs[iter_head & p_mask].page);
> 
> Maybe this would become a little more readable with a local variable
> and a little more verbosity:
> 
> 		struct page *page = pipe->bufs[iter_head & p_mask].page;
> 
> 		if (use_pup)
> 			pin_user_page(page);
> 		else
> 			get_page(page);
> 
> 		*pages++ = page;
> 

Yes, that is cleaner, I'll change to that, thanks.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA