linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 00/19] mm/gup: remove FOLL_FORCE usage from drivers (reliable R/O long-term pinning)

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2022 10:29:17 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        etnaviv@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/19] mm/gup: remove FOLL_FORCE usage from drivers
 (reliable R/O long-term pinning)

On 07.11.22 18:27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 8:18 AM David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> So instead, make R/O long-term pinning work as expected, by breaking COW
>> in a COW mapping early, such that we can remove any FOLL_FORCE usage from
>> drivers.
> 
> Nothing makes me unhappy from a quick scan through these patches.
> 
> And I'd really love to just have this long saga ended, and FOLL_FORCE
> finally relegated to purely ptrace accesses.
> 
> So an enthusiastic Ack from me.

Thanks Linus! My hope is that we can remove it from all drivers and not 
have to leave it in for some corner cases; so far it looks promising.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb