[PATCH v1 0/2] udmabuf: Add back support for mapping hugetlb pages
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at nvidia.com
Mon Jun 26 12:57:29 UTC 2023
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 01:28:24PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 01:37:58PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:35:45PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> >
> > > It seems the previous concern on using gup was majorly fork(), if this is it:
> > >
> > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/210992/?series=39879&rev=2#comment_414213
> >
> > Fork and GUP have been fixed since that comment anyhow there is no
> > longer a problem using GUP and fork together.
>
> Ah, I read it previously as a requirement that the child will also be able
> the see the same / coherent page when manipulating the dmabuf later after
> fork(), e.g., the udmabuf can be created before fork().
That always worked, just use MAP_SHARED.
Jason
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