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Message-ID: <ZEwDelszXBRwUGS0@nvidia.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:33:46 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mm/gup: disallow GUP writing to file-backed mappings
 by default

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:56:55AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:

> > PageAnon(page) can be called from GUP-fast after grabbing a reference. See
> > gup_must_unshare().
> 
> Hmm.. Is it a good idea at all to sacrifise all "!anon" fast-gups for this?
> People will silently got degrade even on legal pins on shmem/hugetlb, I
> think, which seems to be still a very major use case.

Remember gup fast was like this until quite recently - DAX wrecked it.

I fixed it when I changed DAX to not post-scan the VMA list..

I'm not sure longterm and really fast need to go together.

Jason

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