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[2/4] mm: introduce put_user_page(), placeholder version

Message ID 20180928053949.5381-4-jhubbard@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series get_user_pages*() and RDMA: first steps | expand

Commit Message

john.hubbard@gmail.com Sept. 28, 2018, 5:39 a.m. UTC 
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>

Introduces put_user_page(), which simply calls put_page().
This provides a way to update all get_user_pages*() callers,
so that they call put_user_page(), instead of put_page().

Also adds release_user_pages(), a drop-in replacement for
release_pages(). This is intended to be easily grep-able,
for later performance improvements, since release_user_pages
is not batched like release_pages() is, and is significantly
slower.

Also: rename goldfish_pipe.c's release_user_pages(), in order
to avoid a naming conflict with the new external function of
the same name.

This prepares for eventually fixing the problem described
in [1], and is following a plan listed in [2].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/ : "The Trouble with get_user_pages()"

[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709080554.21931-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
    Proposed steps for fixing get_user_pages() + DMA problems.

CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
CC: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c |  4 ++--
 include/linux/mm.h                        | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Jan Kara Oct. 3, 2018, 4:22 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu 27-09-18 22:39:48, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> 
> Introduces put_user_page(), which simply calls put_page().
> This provides a way to update all get_user_pages*() callers,
> so that they call put_user_page(), instead of put_page().
> 
> Also adds release_user_pages(), a drop-in replacement for
> release_pages(). This is intended to be easily grep-able,
> for later performance improvements, since release_user_pages
> is not batched like release_pages() is, and is significantly
> slower.

A small nit but can we maybe call this put_user_pages() for symmetry with
put_user_page()? I don't really care too much but it would look natural to
me.

								Honza
John Hubbard Oct. 3, 2018, 11:23 p.m. UTC | #2 
On 10/3/18 9:22 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 27-09-18 22:39:48, john.hubbard@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
>>
>> Introduces put_user_page(), which simply calls put_page().
>> This provides a way to update all get_user_pages*() callers,
>> so that they call put_user_page(), instead of put_page().
>>
>> Also adds release_user_pages(), a drop-in replacement for
>> release_pages(). This is intended to be easily grep-able,
>> for later performance improvements, since release_user_pages
>> is not batched like release_pages() is, and is significantly
>> slower.
> 
> A small nit but can we maybe call this put_user_pages() for symmetry with
> put_user_page()? I don't really care too much but it would look natural to
> me.
> 

Sure. It started out as "make it a drop-in replacement for release_pages()",
but now it's not quite a drop-in replacement anymore. And in any case it's an 
opportunity to make the name more intuitive, so that seems like a good
idea.

If anyone hates put_user_pages() and wants to campaign relentlessly for
release_pages*(), then now is the time! :)


thanks,
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
index 2da567540c2d..fad0345376e0 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@  static int pin_user_pages(unsigned long first_page, unsigned long last_page,
 
 }
 
-static void release_user_pages(struct page **pages, int pages_count,
+static void __release_user_pages(struct page **pages, int pages_count,
 	int is_write, s32 consumed_size)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@  static int transfer_max_buffers(struct goldfish_pipe *pipe,
 
 	*consumed_size = pipe->command_buffer->rw_params.consumed_size;
 
-	release_user_pages(pages, pages_count, is_write, *consumed_size);
+	__release_user_pages(pages, pages_count, is_write, *consumed_size);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&pipe->lock);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a61ebe8ad4ca..72caf803115f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -943,6 +943,20 @@  static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
 		__put_page(page);
 }
 
+/* Placeholder version, until all get_user_pages*() callers are updated. */
+static inline void put_user_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	put_page(page);
+}
+
+/* A drop-in replacement for release_pages(): */
+static inline void release_user_pages(struct page **pages,
+				      unsigned long npages)
+{
+	while (npages)
+		put_user_page(pages[--npages]);
+}
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM) && !defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
 #define SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
 #endif