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From: Suravee Suthikulanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kim.naru@amd.com, jay.cornwall@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Take mmap_sem when calling get_user_pages
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:11:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536933E9.6040404@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140506181438.GD12376@8bytes.org>

On 5/6/2014 1:14 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
>> From: Jay Cornwall <jay.cornwall@amd.com>
>>
>> get_user_pages requires caller to hold a read lock on mmap_sem.
>
> Right, but can't we just switch to get_user_pages_fast instead?
>
>
> 	Joerg
>

You're right. I think it can. Let me spin out another patch.

Suravee

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From: Suravee Suthikulanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kim.naru@amd.com>,
	<jay.cornwall@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Take mmap_sem when calling get_user_pages
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:11:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536933E9.6040404@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140506181438.GD12376@8bytes.org>

On 5/6/2014 1:14 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
>> From: Jay Cornwall <jay.cornwall@amd.com>
>>
>> get_user_pages requires caller to hold a read lock on mmap_sem.
>
> Right, but can't we just switch to get_user_pages_fast instead?
>
>
> 	Joerg
>

You're right. I think it can. Let me spin out another patch.

Suravee


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-28 22:27 [PATCH] iommu/amd: Take mmap_sem when calling get_user_pages suravee.suthikulpanit-5C7GfCeVMHo
2014-04-28 22:27 ` suravee.suthikulpanit
2014-05-06 18:14 ` Joerg Roedel
2014-05-06 19:11   ` Suravee Suthikulanit [this message]
2014-05-06 19:11     ` Suravee Suthikulanit
2014-05-06 19:27     ` Suravee Suthikulanit
2014-05-06 19:27       ` Suravee Suthikulanit
     [not found] ` <1398724066-3730-1-git-send-email-suravee.suthikulpanit-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-12 19:04   ` Joerg Roedel
2014-05-12 19:04     ` Joerg Roedel

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