Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 16/20] mm/frame-vector: remove FOLL_FORCE usage

Daniel Vetter
2022-11-16T10:54:48Z

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 11:26:55AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> FOLL_FORCE is really only for ptrace access. According to commit
> 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are always
> writable"), get_vaddr_frames() currently pins all pages writable as a
> workaround for issues with read-only buffers.
>
> FOLL_FORCE, however, seems to be a legacy leftover as it predates
> commit 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are
> always writable"). Let's just remove it.
>
> Once the read-only buffer issue has been resolved, FOLL_WRITE could
> again be set depending on the DMA direction.
>
> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Also code I looked at while looking at follow_pfn stuff

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

> ---
> drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> index 542dde9d2609..062e98148c53 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/frame_vector.c
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ 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,
> + FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
> (struct page **)(vec->ptrs));
> if (ret > 0) {
> vec->got_ref = true;
> --
> 2.38.1
>

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation