linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 19/19] habanalabs: remove FOLL

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Message-Id: <20221107161740.144456-20-david@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon,  7 Nov 2022 17:17:40 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 19/19] habanalabs: remove FOLL_FORCE usage

FOLL_FORCE is really only for debugger access. As we unpin the pinned pages
using unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(true), the assumption is that all these
pages are writable.

FOLL_FORCE in this case seems to be due to copy-and-past from other
drivers. Let's just remove it.

Cc: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c
index ef28f3b37b93..e35cca96bbef 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c
@@ -2312,8 +2312,7 @@ static int get_user_memory(struct hl_device *hdev, u64 addr, u64 size,
 	if (!userptr->pages)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	rc = pin_user_pages_fast(start, npages,
-				 FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
+	rc = pin_user_pages_fast(start, npages, FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
 				 userptr->pages);
 
 	if (rc != npages) {
-- 
2.38.1