Re: [PATCH 3/2] KVM: async_pf: change async_pf_execute() to use get_user_pages(tsk => NULL)

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 28/04/2014 17:03, Oleg Nesterov ha scritto:
> async_pf_execute() passes tsk == current to gup(), this is doesn't
> hurt but unnecessary and misleading. "tsk" is only used to account
> the number of faults and current is the random workqueue thread.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/async_pf.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
> index 0ced4f3..62f4223 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void async_pf_execute(struct work_struct *work)
>  	might_sleep();
>
>  	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> -	get_user_pages(current, mm, addr, 1, 1, 0, NULL, NULL);
> +	get_user_pages(NULL, mm, addr, 1, 1, 0, NULL, NULL);
>  	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  	kvm_async_page_present_sync(vcpu, apf);
>
>

Thanks, added a Suggested-by for Andrea and applied together with 1/2 to 
kvm/queue.

(Actually, I'm back from a longish vacation and I have a pretty large 
queue, so I haven't even compile tested these for now.  Once I get round 
to at least smoke-test them, I'll really push to kvm/queue).

Paolo