[PATCH 05/13] mm/frame-vector: Use FOLL_LONGTERM
John Hubbard
jhubbard at nvidia.com
Wed Oct 7 21:13:42 UTC 2020
On 10/7/20 9:44 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> This is used by media/videbuf2 for persistent dma mappings, not just
> for a single dma operation and then freed again, so needs
> FOLL_LONGTERM.
>
> Unfortunately current pup_locked doesn't support FOLL_LONGTERM due to
> locking issues. Rework the code to pull the pup path out from the
> mmap_sem critical section as suggested by Jason.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Pawel Osciak <pawel at osciak.com>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga at chromium.org>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
> Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-samsung-soc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> mm/frame_vector.c | 36 +++++++++++-------------------------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
> index 10f82d5643b6..39db520a51dc 100644
> --- a/mm/frame_vector.c
> +++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> int ret = 0;
> int err;
> - int locked;
>
> if (nr_frames == 0)
> return 0;
> @@ -48,35 +47,22 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
>
> start = untagged_addr(start);
>
> + ret = pin_user_pages_fast(start, nr_frames,
> + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
> + (struct page **)(vec->ptrs));
> + if (ret > 0) {
> + vec->got_ref = true;
> + vec->is_pfns = false;
> + goto out_unlocked;
> + }
This part looks good, and changing to _fast is a potential performance improvement,
too.
> +
> mmap_read_lock(mm);
> - locked = 1;
> vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, start, start + 1);
> if (!vma) {
> ret = -EFAULT;
> goto out;
> }
>
> - /*
> - * While get_vaddr_frames() could be used for transient (kernel
> - * controlled lifetime) pinning of memory pages all current
> - * users establish long term (userspace controlled lifetime)
> - * page pinning. Treat get_vaddr_frames() like
> - * get_user_pages_longterm() and disallow it for filesystem-dax
> - * mappings.
> - */
> - if (vma_is_fsdax(vma)) {
> - ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> - goto out;
> - }
Are you sure we don't need to check vma_is_fsdax() anymore?
> -
> - if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {
> - vec->got_ref = true;
> - vec->is_pfns = false;
> - ret = pin_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
> - gup_flags, (struct page **)(vec->ptrs), &locked);
> - goto out;
> - }
> -
> vec->got_ref = false;
> vec->is_pfns = true;
> do {
> @@ -101,8 +87,8 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
> vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, start, start + 1);
> } while (vma && vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP));
> out:
> - if (locked)
> - mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> + mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> +out_unlocked:
> if (!ret)
> ret = -EFAULT;
> if (ret > 0)
>
All of the error handling still looks accurate there.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
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